MBAO 440 Strategic Management Capstone
The MBA strategic management course is designed to provide a training ground to learn and practice the tools, techniques, mental models and frameworks of strategic decision making and managerial implementation. To be a strategic manager is to move an organization with a goal or goals in mind, to integrate information across sources, motivate co-workers, to use and collect data, and to be cognizant and engaged with the past and the future, the big picture and the operational under conditions of uncertainty and complexity. Strategic managers operate in all organizations whatever their form: profit, nonprofit, government, cooperative, B-Corp and others. This course is designed to accompany, educate, and support students as they encounter and practice strategic thinking and collaboration using an experiential approach. Students will use and hone critical thinking skills to include synthesis (combining to make a whole) and analysis (separating into components). Data will be collected and used to apply all the knowledge acquired tin the MBA course of study. Strategic management is a dynamic and growing field demanding rigor, flexibility and creativity of its members. Strategy marshals approaches and frameworks that when adopted into action by leaders, can result in success -more or less - sooner or later. Uncertainty, turbulence, complexity, intense competition, and opportunities for innovation are all hallmarks of the strategic arena.