XM 773 - Strategic Integration and Implementation

(3.75 cr.)

Presents strategic integration as a questioning, challenging, unconventional, and innovative process. Students prepare to think and act like general managers-individuals carrying titles such as chief executive officer, plant manager, general manager, executive director, president, owner, and managing director. Also imparts the skills of a general manager and is almost wholly devoted to hands-on applications. Topics include instilling a critical, analytical, flexible, and creative mindset; challenging the organizational, industrial, and national paradigms and problem solving recipes; proficiency in meeting the general management responsibility in strategy formulation and implementation; and evaluation, design, development, and implementation of various functional plans for an organization using cases and/or simulations.