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MAN 472 Corporate Planning and Strategic Management

400 levelManagement & Administration10 topics

MAN 472 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Nature and importance of corporate planning
  2. Levels of strategy: corporate, business and functional
  3. Long-range and short-range planning
  4. Setting corporate objectives and goals
  5. Strategic analysis tools (BCG matrix, PESTEL, Porter's forces)
  6. Strategy formulation and choice
  7. Strategy implementation and change management
  8. Contingency planning and scenario analysis
  9. Strategic evaluation and control systems
  10. Corporate governance and strategic leadership

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Nature and importance of corporate planning

The nature of corporate planning centres on what planning means at the corporate level, its features, scope, and how it guides the whole organisation toward long-term goals. For examination purposes, you must clearly understand why corporate planning is systematic, future-oriented, and organisation-wide, and why it is important for coordination, decision-making, efficient resource use, and survival in a changing…

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