Course Coordinator:Bianka Sabert (bsabert@usc.edu.au) School:School of Business and Creative Industries
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Blended learning | Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online. |
Online |
Online | You can do this course without coming onto campus. |
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teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
Strategic management is key to unlocking long-term competitive advantage. This course explores the strategic journey that propels businesses towards success. Students will gain mastery over the essential concepts, frameworks, and models that are critical in crafting and executing effective strategic plans. In an era marked by increasing uncertainty, the ability to think strategically and innovate is crucial. This course is designed to transform students into professionals who can think critically, creatively, and strategically—driving their organisations towards enduring success.
Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
Blended learning | |||
Learning materials – Interactive online learning activities.To be studied before the workshop. | 1hr | Week 1 | 12 times |
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Scheduled face to face workshops. | 2hrs | Week 1 | 10 times |
Online | |||
Learning materials – Interactive online learning activities. To be studied before the workshop. | 1hr | Week 1 | 12 times |
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Scheduled online workshops (Recorded). | 2hrs | Week 1 | 10 times |
200 Level (Developing)
12 units
Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Mapping Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | Professional Standard Mapping * Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business | |
1 | Demonstrate advanced written communication skills in a business context |
Knowledgeable Engaged Sustainability-focussed |
PC1.1, PC3, PC3.1, PC6.1, PC6.2 |
2 | Demonstrate critical and creative thinking to identify and solve business problems and arrive at innovative solutions. |
Knowledgeable Creative and critical thinker Ethical Sustainability-focussed |
PC1.1, PC3, PC3.1, PC4.1, PC6, PC6.1, PC6.2 |
3 | Demonstrate capacity and competence in the application of business discipline specific knowledge |
Knowledgeable Empowered Ethical Sustainability-focussed |
PC1.1, PC3, PC3.1, PC4.1, PC6, PC6.1, PC6.2 |
CODE | COMPETENCY |
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business | |
PC1.1 | Written Communication |
PC3 | Creative and Critical Thinking |
PC3.1 | Problem Solving |
PC4.1 | Social Responsibility and Sustainability |
PC6 | Career-ready |
PC6.1 | Self-management |
PC6.2 | Discipline Knowledge |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
BUS104
Not applicable
Not applicable
Not applicable
Standard Grading (GRD)
High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
Formative feedback will be delivered informally through the discussion of activities in the workshops. These discussions and activities are critical to the assessment tasks and students are expected to come prepared to workshops to share and discuss their answers.
Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | Weighting % | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
All | 1 | Case Study | Individual | 50% | 2,000 words |
Week 7 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
All | 2 | Plan | Individual | 50% | 2,000 words |
Week 13 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
All - Assessment Task 1:Strategic Analysis | |||||||||||||||||||
Goal: | To undertake a strategic analysis of a business, by drawing on strategic management concepts covered in this course. |
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Product: | Case Study | ||||||||||||||||||
Format: | You will actively apply strategic management concepts to analyse the current position of a real-world business. |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving, Organisation, Information literacy |
All - Assessment Task 2:Strategic plan | ||||||||||||||||
Goal: | To chart a new direction for a real-world business based on the analysis of the business’ current situation. |
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Product: | Plan | |||||||||||||||
Format: | Building on your analysis in Task 1, you will identify an opportunity or a threat that the business needs to address. Following this identification, you will develop a strategic plan, for addressing the identified opportunity or threat. |
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Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving, Organisation, Information literacy |
A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
Please note that you need to have regular access to the resource(s) listed below. Resources may be required or recommended.
Required? | Author | Year | Title | Edition | Publisher |
Recommended | Richard Whittington,Patrick Regner,Duncan Angwin,Gerry Johnson,Kevan Scholes | 2023 | Exploring Strategy, Text & Cases | 13th edition | Pearson |
Students are required to work through the learning materials in Canvas for each module before participating in workshops.
Academic integrity is the ethical standard of university participation. It ensures that students graduate as a result of proving they are competent in their discipline. This is integral in maintaining the value of academic qualifications. Each industry has expectations and standards of the skills and knowledge within that discipline and these are reflected in assessment.
Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.
In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.
Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment
Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying:
(a) The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4%; and
(b) The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale
Late submissions may be penalised up to and including the following maximum percentage of the assessment task’s identified value, with weekdays and weekends included in the calculation of days late:
(a) One day: deduct 5%;
(b) Two days: deduct 10%;
(c) Three days: deduct 20%;
(d) Four days: deduct 40%;
(e) Five days: deduct 60%;
(f) Six days: deduct 80%;
(g) Seven days: A result of zero is awarded for the assessment task.The following penalties will apply for a late submission for an online examination:
Less than 15 minutes: No penalty
From 15 minutes to 30 minutes: 20% penalty
More than 30 minutes: 100% penalty
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