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Strategic Actions

In this course, you’ll explore modes for entering international markets, corporate diversification and corporate-level strategy.

Strategic Actions

  • Duration

    2 weeks

  • Weekly study

    8 hours
Overview
Topics
Requirements
Educators

Explore stakeholder analysis in a strategic and decision-making context

In this short course, you will learn about traditional and emerging motives for organisations to pursue international expansions, identify benefits of an international strategy and explore international markets and diversification.

The second half of the course considers corporate-level strategy and corporate diversification.

What topics will you cover?

  • Identifying international opportunities
  • Foreign market entry modes
  • Diversification as a corporate-level strategy
  • Strategic actions

Learning on this course

You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Discuss the nature and importance of stakeholder analysis

Who is the course for?

This course is for anyone who is keen to gain more knowledge about strategy and globalisation. This course equips business managers and students of management with the concepts, framework, and techniques needed for better environmental scanning.

Please note that the staff described in the ‘Who will you learn with?’ section below may be subject to change.

Who will you learn with?

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Who developed the course?

Coventry University

Coventry secured gold in the UK Government’s 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and is University of the Year for Student Experience in The Times & The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019.

  • Established

    1992

  • Location

    Coventry

Learning on FutureLearn

Your learning, your rules

  • Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps, but you can complete them as quickly or slowly as you like
  • 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

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