Course Introduction / Strategic Implementation
Course Introduction / Strategic Implementation
Course Level: Specialized Courses
Specialized: Cross-category
Required/Elective: Elective
Credits: 1.5
Pre-IMBA/Open Course: Open Course
Specialized: Cross-category
Required/Elective: Elective
Credits: 1.5
Pre-IMBA/Open Course: Open Course
Report (Report Day): Day 4
Course Period (Number of Classes): 3 months (6 classes)
Hours Per Class: 3 hours
Capacity: 35 students
Class Style: Case Method
Course Period (Number of Classes): 3 months (6 classes)
Hours Per Class: 3 hours
Capacity: 35 students
Class Style: Case Method
COURSE OVERVIEW
Students will understand the difficulties of implementation and study the means of ensuring competitive advantage through the implementation of strategies, emerging innovations from the field, the use of change agents, and so on. Students will consider the duties of senior managers in addressing these factors. Students will write papers that review their own skills as implementers of strategy under the direction of a consultant and business manager.
Prerequisite Courses
- Critical Thinking
- Organizational Behavior and Leadership
- Strategy
- Human Resource Management
- Organizational Behavior and Leadership
- Strategy
- Human Resource Management
THEME/CASE (*The themes and cases shown below are subject to change)
Day 1
| THEME | The Challenges of Strategic Implementation |
|---|---|
| CASE | ・Maureen Frye at Quaker Steel and Alloy Corporation ・Johnson & Johnson |
Day 2
| THEME | The Challenges of Sustaining Implementation |
|---|---|
| CASE | ・BRL Hardy: Globalizing an Australian Wine Company ・Three in the Middle: The Experience of Making Change at Micro Switch |
Day 3
| THEME | Management Systems and Strategy Implementation |
|---|---|
| CASE | Transforming Human Resources at Novartis: The Human Resources Information System (HRIS) |
Day 4
| THEME | Requirements for those Performing Strategic Implementation |
|---|---|
| CASE | N/A |
Day 5
| THEME | Change Agents and the Development and Utilization of Corporate Entrepreneurs |
|---|---|
| CASE | ・First Community Bank ・Joline Godfrey and the Polaroid Corporation |
Day 6
| THEME | Requirements for Becoming a Successful Change Agent |
|---|---|
| CASE | Proctor & Gamble Brazil |
Textbook (Please purchase the following textbook before the course starts.)
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- Leading Change
- Kotter, John P., (1996) Harvard Business School Press
ISBN-10: 0875847471 / ISBN-13: 978-0875847474
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