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Overview
You'll also learn about the external environment and how the economic and political context helps shape how businesses respond to global challenges.
Using a blend of text, audio, video and interactive online activities, you’ll develop vital skills for study and for work in business, public or voluntary sector organisations.
Particular attention is paid to developing your critical thinking skills. You will also be introduced to mind mapping as a technique to help you express your ideas and creativity.
Key facts
- Support from your tutor from Shaping Business Opportunities module at The Open University UK.
- You’ll have a tutor who will help you with the study material and mark and comment on your tutor-marked assignments (TMAs), and whom you can ask for advice and guidance. If you’re new to the OU, your tutor can also provide additional support with your study skills.
- To support your study, there will be a series of learning events which you are encouraged to attend. These events will either be delivered face to face or via an online meeting room which is a synchronous online platform used to deliver tuition. While you’re not obliged to attend any of these tutorial events, you are strongly encouraged to take part.
- They provide an opportunity for you to engage with members of the module tutoring team and fellow students on a series of activities that will help you to consolidate your learning and prepare for module assessments. The cost of these learning events excluding travel and subsistence, is included in the module fee.
Programme Structure
Course include:
- Block 1: Big ideas in organisations: No matter the sector, innovation is a key feature of the contemporary business context. This block explores why new products and services are imperative to contemporary business practice and why investing in their development is crucial to business growth and profitability.
- Block 2: Competing in a global context: This block examines the significance of context for organisational innovation and the implications of globalisation for internal business functions.
- Block 3: Building long-term success: the concept of fostering long-term value creation. Whilst Block 2 focused primarily on issues of geography and context, just as essential for successful organisational innovation is the impact of time.
- Conclusion: This final block draws together the diverse themes from the preceding blocks and encourages you to reflect on what you have learned.
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 8 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
Credits
60 alternative credits
Delivered
Online
Campus Location
- Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Business Administration View 105 other Short Courses in Business Administration in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- This module is for anyone who wants a general overview of business studies – to learn more about the world of business and how it operates. It makes as few assumptions as possible about what you already know about business or about your experience of formal academic study. However, as this is an OU level 2 module and if you have no previous experience of studying business, it is strongly recommended that you first study An introduction to business and management (B100).
Tuition Fees
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