Courses persons responsible
Tomi Nokelainen

Lecturers
Tomi Nokelainen

Language of Instruction
Carried out completely in English.

Implementations

	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Period 4	Period 5	Summer
Exercise	-	3 h/week	-	-	-	-
Exam

(Timetable for academic year 2006-2007)

Objectives
To familiarize students with the basic concepts and analysis frameworks of strategic management. To illustrate the role of strategic management and strategic decisions within a company with particular emphasis on the operating environment of the company.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	The history and basic concepts of strategic management and strategic thought.	The history of management thought and strategic management within that.
2.	The central contents of different schools of thought within strategic management.
3.	The central analysis frameworks within strategic management.
4.	The phases of strategy process and decisions within each of the phases.
5.	Managing strategic change.

Requirements for completing the course
Exam based on lectures and specified literature, written assignments.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Prerequisites

Code	Course	Credits	M/R
TETA-1016	TETA-1016 Basics of Industrial Management	4	Recommendable

Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

Additional information about prerequisites
TETA-1016 Basics of Industrial Management or equivalent knowledge recommended.

Remarks

Distance learning

- In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
- In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc
- The course utilizes a learning platform, which? Moodle

Correspondence of content
TETA-2600 Corporate Strategy

Last modified	17.05.2006
Modified by	Sanna Nokelainen