Business Management: Marketing Principles and Practice
Develop your marketing skills and knowledge to help you make better business decisions and achieve your professional goals.
Duration
10 weeksCost
$674
Gain the marketing skills you need to level-up your management career
From understanding customer behaviour to designing products and services that meet customer needs – marketing techniques and tools are used to solve management problems in a diverse range of professional contexts.
Whether you work in a commercial or non-commercial industry, as a management professional it’s crucial to understand the value of marketing and its impact on various business functions.
This microcredential will introduce you to the core principles of marketing – covering offline and digital perspectives.
Discover practical, best practice marketing skills
Through an exploration of best-practice marketing approaches, you’ll enhance your marketing knowledge, improve your professional decision-making, and adapt your approach to solving business challenges, whatever your role or sector.
Underpinned by the latest academic thinking, this microcredential covers practical marketing examples and learning accounts from diverse international brands, as well as local charities and social enterprises in industries from manufacturing and retail to professional services and healthcare.
Unlock the knowledge tools needed for success in marketing
You’ll develop your understanding of key marketing topics like trends, customer motivation, and delivering customer value, and learn how to gather and use data to make effective management decisions.
You’ll also build a toolkit for creating products and services that meet your customer’s needs and that differentiate your product from your competitors’ offerings.
Throughout the course you’ll take part in weekly activities to support and consolidate your learning. At the end of the course, you’ll submit an assessment which is marked and graded with personalised feedback, by subject matter experts.
Learn from experts at The Open University
This microcredential has been created by experts from The Open University’s Business School. Its academics have vast experience in the delivery of online business modules, in fact it is one of only 100 business schools in the world to hold the ‘triple crown’ of triple-accredited status with EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA. Fewer than 1% of all business schools worldwide have been awarded this accreditation.
Discover more of The Open University’s Business and Management microcredentials – designed to provide you with key leadership and management skills that will set you up for career success.
Choose from Fundamentals of Management Accounting, Financial Accounting for Non-Financial Roles, Improving Organisational Practice, Project Management and People Management and Leadership.
Industry statistics
Median base salary
£42,500UK job openings/month
1,966
What skills will you learn?
- Identifying customers’ motivations and responding to them
- Analysing the environment to identify marketing opportunities
- Establishing effective relationships with stakeholders
- Interpreting and using data to inform marketing decisions
- Managing customers’ willingness to pay
- Developing communication strategies appropriate for your product or service
- Positioning your offer to attract the right customers
- How to build compelling business and personal brands
- Identifying customers’ perceptions of risk & addressing them
- Leveraging relationships with distributors for marketing success
- Differentiating your offer from the competition
What you will achieve
By the end of the microcredential, you’ll be able to...
- Solve a range of commercial and non-commercial marketing problems using appropriate tools and concepts
- Apply the latest tools of product and service design, distribution management and pricing to real situations
- Collect relevant information for marketing decision making
- Interpret a variety of different types of information from different information sources
- Evaluate and implement appropriate exchange methods, including relationships in different situations
Are you eligible for this microcredential?
This is an introductory course and no previous knowledge of marketing is required. You do not require any specific experience or qualifications to enrol.
This microcredential is ideal for business professionals who wish to broaden their understanding of marketing and develop knowledge and skills to improve their performance at work. The course material does not assume that learners are currently working. Past experiences will be just as relevant.
The course has a global focus and delivers transferable skills for diverse sectors and organisations.
Is this microcredential right for you?
This microcredential will increase your confidence in applying marketing principles to your work and using marketing concepts to solve business problems.
In particular, it will enhance the employability of:
- Professionals who would like to progress to management level.
- Professionals who are new to a marketing role or work in marketing but lack formal qualifications.
- Senior professionals looking to develop their marketing and management skills.
- Self-employed professionals looking to develop their skills and knowledge of marketing.
Syllabus
What happens before, during, and after your microcredential
Before learning
You’ll have access to our online welcome area where you’ll be able to read any information relating to your microcredential.
Course
From 8 Jul 2024
Business Management: Marketing Principles and Practice
Develop your marketing skills and knowledge to help you make better business decisions and achieve your professional goals.
10 weeks
10 hours per week
After learning
Your submitted assessment will be marked and graded by subject matter experts and you’ll also receive personalised feedback on your work. You’ll continue to have ongoing access to the course materials.
What you will receive
10 UK credits at Undergraduate level from The Open University and a Certificate
Academic credits are awarded on passing the final assessment. These will be at undergraduate level 6 of the Framework for Higher Education (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) / level 10 of the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework.
Find out how credits work and where you can use them in our FAQs.
What is a microcredential?
Microcredentials are designed to upskill you for work in rapidly-growing industries, without the time and cost commitment of a full degree. Your microcredential can stand alone as an independent credential, and some also offer academic credit to use towards a degree.
Complete online courses led by experts over multiple weeks with a dedicated group of professionals.
Test your understanding with online tutor-marked assessments and exercises.
Finish your learning and pass your assessments to gain an accredited credential.
Use your microcredential as evidence of your specialised skills and progress further in your industry.
Career-focused learning by The Open University
As the UK’s largest university, The Open University (OU) supports thousands of students to achieve their goals and ambitions via supported distance learning, helping to fit learning around professional and personal life commitments.
Established
1969Location
Milton Keynes, UKWorld ranking
Top 510Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020
Delivered by experts
Haider is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the Open University and a visiting Professor at other Universities. He has consulted & taught globally and published in the Journal of Marketing Management.
Learning on FutureLearn
Your learning, your rules
- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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You will have 14 days from the day the course starts to apply for a refund. If this Microcredential has any non-refundable costs they will be stated in the ‘Overview’ section above. You can find more information in our cancellation and refund policy.
Microcredentials are designed to fit around your life and timezone.
There may be live events as part of your studies, but these will be recorded and can be watched afterwards if you aren’t online for the live broadcast.
No, microcredentials are designed to be taken anywhere in the world. You won’t need the right to study in the country where the university offering the microcredential is based.
Microcredentials are stand-alone courses designed to meet specific learner and employer needs. Those awarded by The Open University have academic credit value at either undergraduate or postgraduate level, and, if appropriate, this may be used towards selected Open University qualifications. For more details, including eligible qualifications, visit The Open University’s Counting microcredentials towards OU qualifications page.
The credit awarded may potentially be used at another university, subject to the agreement of the receiving institution.
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