MIS30150 Strategic Decision Making in the Digital World

Academic Year 2020/2021

Today’s managers are faced with the challenge crafting and implementing timely and accurate strategic decisions. In doing so, it is essential that managers make optimal use Digital Business applications for data collection, analysis, and decision making.

This applied module investigates and discusses strategic decision making utilising Digital Business applications. Combining industry standard data collection and analytics tools, such as the Bloomberg Infrastructure, students will gain important insights into sectors, industries and companies in order to draft strategic investment ideas and recommendations.

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Learning Outcomes:

On successfully completion of the module, students should be able to

(i) Demonstrate a deep understanding of the major issues surrounding strategic decision making.

(ii) Analyse and propose suitable data visualisations for strategic decision making.

(iii) Evaluate and discuss organisations’ market performance utilising Bloomberg’s infrastructure.

(iv) Understand the manager's role in data interpretation and business recommendation formulation utilising an online business simulation.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Seminar (or Webinar)

10
Computer Aided Lab

5
Specified Learning Activities

24
Autonomous Student Learning

30
Online Learning

35
Total

104
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Face-to-face lectures, Bloomberg lab and online business simulation covering big data. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Continuous Assessment: Strategic Decision Making Online Simulation (Harvard Business School Publishing) Week 11 n/a Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

40
Assignment: Business Analytics Project and Presentation (Online) Week 6 n/a Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

40
Practical Examination: Online Quiz (Bloomberg Certificate) Week 4 n/a Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% No

20

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

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