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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 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 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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By Ankur G

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Mar 19, 2016

This is a very simple, brief and useful course.

The modules are short, concise but do not go into lot of details. Is a good course to audit/browse for free but may not be good enough against a verified option. Anyways, paying for verified course is subject to personal value derivation.

While I had rated earlier for the above reasons before the course finished. I am facing the exact same problem with this course as I faced with earlier course.

The grading process is badly constructed for final assignment. In fact, now I am learning from coursera staff that may be there are not enough students to grade my peer review assignment.

So please do audit this course but do not be trapped in specialization.

Cheers..

By Christian M

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Dec 6, 2022

In contrast to the first course in this specialization this one is rather boring. It repeats quite a lot of stuff from the first course, actually the capstone project briefing is identical. Most of the content is straight forward internet stuff. Not really what I would expect. It seems to me, the teacher had to do this course. I was really bored listening. In fact I skipped some of the videos, and still scored high in the tests. The tests are pretty lull - and you can't look up what was correct and wrong. So you have no choice to learn and improve.

By Gayathri R S

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Jun 17, 2016

The speaking style and body language of the instructor was quite monotonous when teaching the content. For the most part of the course, it felt like the instructor was just "reading" the teleprompter without blinking for several seconds! He did not attempt to teach the students in these videos. It could have been MUCH better if he had used better presentation tools and shorter sentences.

By Mark R

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May 8, 2020

This course is ok at best. There are not enough practical tools given, too much reliance of case studies with very little taught relevance, the final assignment is very poorly written and frankly confusing for no educational value.

By Tao L

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May 19, 2023

The course is poorly designed. The contents do not corresponding to objectives. Many external links are broken. Exercises are too easy.

Many peer review homework are created by ChatGPT or have poor quality.

By Matthew C

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Apr 4, 2017

While the content of this course was presented in an engaging way, the assessment task lacks context. To then be asked to peer review others based on this is particularly disengaging.