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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Strategy Formulation by Copenhagen Business School

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About the Course

The purpose of this course is to present, analyze and discuss the different facets of business strategy formulation. Emphasizing that strategy can be seen as a unified theme that provides coherence and direction to the actions and decisions of a firm, we will cover a variety of business strategy topics concerned with firm positioning in the context of different markets, industries and locations. At the end of the course, you will be able to: - Identify why a strong strategy is essential for the future business success - Formulate a business strategy that suits the needs and visions of your organization - Explain why managers too often formulate sub-optimal strategies - Extrapolate measures to optimize current business strategies Workload: 2-4 hours per week....

Top reviews

DI

Aug 2, 2020

A great experience of learning about business strategy..many concepts refreshed that I studied during my MBA. A great teaching approach by the faculty; a blend of readings, videos, and quizzes!!

IW

Jan 14, 2019

Very interesting, varied lectures with relevant presentations of Danish companies in all sorts of situations. The assignment was fun to do, but the grading process could be a bit smoother.

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By Chetan B

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Jul 8, 2022

Several links in study material were not working or were outdated. Although it introduced to several management technique for strategy the quiz answers were mostly open i.e there are no wrong answers... but sometimes it helps to be more concrete to prevent going very wide with management interpretation.

By Youssef E

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May 19, 2020

This course is the most important and the worst in the Strategic Management and Innovation Specialization. The final assignment is not clear and the content is not very rich. I graduated from this course with a very good grade. Yet, I am self-doubting my abilities to formulate a good strategy.

By Sherry G

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Feb 29, 2016

The materials were interesting and relevant. The instructions for the final project were a bit cryptic - it was not completely clear what the instructor wanted. The submissions I reviewed were all over the board and none came close to the grading rubric

By Michael I

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Apr 12, 2016

The course content itself was good, however the final assignment was vague and confusing. I think my coursemates had the same problem; all of the submissions I reviewed failed to discuss in any way at least one of the learning objectives.

By Ayman S A

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Feb 12, 2016

Could be improved.. the ideas seem disconnected there is no clear flow of the ideas presented in different weeks and the specific actions to formulate a strategy. but overall good course with excellent frameworks. Thanks a lot Coursera

By Johan M

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Jun 27, 2017

The material is good, but I feel there should be at least one example given of a executive summary, before asking students to write one. It would also be nice to be able to download some slides and / summaries of the lessons.

By Elina J

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May 25, 2016

This course was more diverse than I thought it would be and I really enjoyed it, however I thought the end of year project could have provided more differentiated prep material as that confused me.

By Alex G B

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Jun 9, 2020

Not as good as the previous course in this specialisation, and actually, some of the frameworks promoted contradict that specialisation. Also loads of accounts with plagiarised/copied reports.

By JOSE O

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Jul 26, 2020

It would be interesting to dig deep into the formulation itself, besides the analytical frameworks. For example, How is the process of designing compelling strategies? what models?

By Philipp H

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Apr 3, 2018

Not a bad course but a lot of materials are outdated of paywalled by now. Also, review criteria and keystone project definition differ so that no perfect result can be achieved.

By Christoph M

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Feb 19, 2017

The course gave a nice overview on strategy formulation but was in my view a bit inconsistent. However I learned the main techniques used in formulation, so no regrets.

By Alexander Z

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Apr 11, 2019

Its ok, perhaps too theoretical, most of the basic strategy consulting companies give a more enanaced and "buy in" approach on how to formulate a strategy and why

By Peter H

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Jul 26, 2016

I think the level was a bit on the low side and the time i had to spend on each week was far less compared with the first module. Videos maintain high standard.

By Pedro C

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Jun 25, 2021

The course is good. Some materials are outdated.. thinking that this course was developed more than 10 years ago, I think it could use a refresh.

By Juan C R C

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Apr 5, 2016

Not too much different information from what can be found in internet for free.

If it was cheaper the relationship cost-quality could improve.

By Fabienne L

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Dec 9, 2015

Interesting but not really practical. This module could benefit of more examples when it comes to formulating strategies.

By Will C

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Mar 3, 2019

why is that the same final exam than for Strategy Management' course... It should have great assigning another task

By Paul E H

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Jul 26, 2016

I felt the course was ok, but wanted more. It seemed very general, even with the focus in the end on e-Types.

By Zina

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Sep 17, 2024

Good course, easy to listen, but not many real checks of the knowledge and some links are not accessible

By Joseph N

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Feb 4, 2021

The final project is fairly confusing in its ask. This should be outlined clearly which its not.

By Josue D

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Oct 23, 2016

I wish teachers look at our work too rather than student though they do their jobs.

By Rhaissa V

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Jul 27, 2022

Basics and very theorical.

By Augustine Q

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Jan 30, 2016

Too few students.

By Safar A

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Aug 16, 2020

Good Course

By Antoine C

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Jan 13, 2016

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