MED 425 Strategic Management for Microfinance

HND2 levelManagement & Administration15 topics

MED 425 covers 15 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.

Strategic planning and management in microfinance
Role and benefits of strategic planning
Features of a strategic plan
Strategic planning team composition and functions
Vision, mission, values and culture
Goal setting and objectives
External environment analysis
Porter’s Five Forces
PEST analysis
Competitive, market, client and stakeholder analysis
Organisational analysis and key functions
Organisational models
SWOT and GAP analysis
Alternative strategies, financial projections and strategic plan development
Action plan implementation, monitoring and evaluation

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Strategic planning and management in microfinance

Strategic planning and management in microfinance involves setting clear objectives, analysing the external and internal environment, formulating sustainable strategies, and implementing and monitoring them to achieve financial inclusion and organisational growth.

What you get for MED 425

Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
Practice questions per session, with answers that explain themselves.
Offline reading — the whole course is a few hundred KB on your phone.
An AI tutor that answers questions using this course's own material.

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