BUS 462 Strategic Consulting

This course equips students with proper concepts, tools, techniques, and frameworks for assessing organizational effectiveness and fitness, identifying areas for improvement, strategy formulation, and management consulting. Students will have the opportunity to develop their strategic consulting skills by working individually and collectively on real-world cases and scenarios. Throughout this course students will create an extensive strategic management toolkit that can be applied in a wide range of industries and organizations.

Credits

5

Outcomes

1. This course will prepare students to:
2. Identify the specific application areas for key strategic consulting tools, methods, and paradigms with an emphasis on understanding the type of relevant problems and scenarios.
3. Develop an understanding of the nature and rigor of strategic consulting and gain skills in consulting fundamentals.
4. Assess the degree of alignment between a firm’s strategic capabilities and market forces using proper frameworks.
5. Gain knowledge of highly effective strategic consulting best practices and tools.
6. Develop and present proper recommendations to enhance a company’s strategic capabilities and position within the market.