first lecture: introduction

Hello,

The introductive lecture provides an overview of organizations purposes and strategic management processes. A practical, integrative model of the strategic-management process is introduced. Basic activities and terms in organizational economics and strategic management are defined. A vocabulary of strategy is discussed (follows).

source: Course Textbook

• Lecture notes: Download my presentation from here (ppt file) or here (pdf file)
  
• Readings: Course Textbook Chapter 1 (Corporate Strategy: An Introduction) + Download (from here) the paper "The New Strategy and Why It Is New" (by N. Demos, St. Chung, and M. Beck) published in strategy+business (pdf file)
• Assignment: Download the first assignment from here (pdf file) / deadline 02.12.2006, 13:00h / please reply by SMS, see assignment document for guidance.
  

--petros

students evaluation: contributing factors

• Class Participation and short tests (15%)
• Three (3) Multiple-Choice in-vivo Tests during the semester (10% each)
  
• Final Exam (55%).

what you will learn in this course

1. A set of fundamental concepts for understanding the process of how business (what is this exactly?) organize to meet the objectives they fix:

• Strategy and strategic management
• Positioning in the competition and sustainable competitive advantage

2. A set of concepts for understanding the process of how business deal with the "technology factor" in the emerging digital world:

• Technological innovation and how to create and capture value from it
• Leverage opportunities in the knowledge / information economies

about this course

This course focuses on some of the important current issues in strategic management and management of technology. It is intended to provide the students with an intellectual framework that will guide the formulation and implementation of corporate strategies - with emphasis to strategies that fit with the emerging collaborative business enviroment and leverage the potential of IT technologies.

The course utilizes lectures and independent reading. The readings (textbook chapters and papers) are primarily drawn from strategic management literature, economics of technical change, behavioral and organizational economics, and from research conducted in engineering and business schools environments. A few of the journal articles are quite difficult. The appropriation from the students of the content of these book chapters and papers will be considered as the essential part of the student evaluation process.

Course Meeting Times Lectures: Ten Lectures

• One Lecture / Week
• Three Hours / Lecture

Level: Graduate