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University of Cape Town: Strategic Business Management

Drive business success with a dynamic and competitive strategy.

Drive business success with a dynamic and competitive strategy.

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10 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts May 5, 2025
Enroll by May 11, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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10 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts May 5, 2025
Enroll by May 11, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

South Africa’s current economic climate is characterized by change and competition. This environment has created the need for managers with solid theoretical knowledge and practical skills in business management. In order to succeed, organizations need to remain competitive, adaptable, and resilient through accurate planning, implementation, and forward-thinking strategies.

The Strategic Business Management online short course from the University of Cape Town (UCT) aims to equip you with these critical business skills, enabling you to thrive in an increasingly competitive business world. You’ll apply innovative and analytical thinking to various market analyses, such as a SWOT analysis, STEEPLE analysis, Porter’s five-force model, and the SELECT framework. In applying strategic management processes to a hypothetical business environment, you’ll walk away with a business strategy, ready for implementation, that is aligned to your long-term organizational objectives.

This course is designed for professionals aiming to pursue a career in business management. Aspiring business managers will become empowered to move to the next tier of management with theoretical and practical business skills from this online short course. Existing managers will benefit by advancing and updating their skill set — better equipping them to navigate the contemporary South African business environment. It’s also relevant to organization stakeholders who need the skills to enable greater strategic direction within their business.

Course curriculum

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Create a forward-thinking business strategy as you work through the weekly modules of this online short course.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Introduction to strategic management

Module 2: Theory and evolution of strategic business management

Module 3: Organizational goals and values

Module 4: Environmental analysis

Module 5: Internal and SWOT analyses

Module 6: Sustainable Competitive Advantage (SCA)

Module 7: The formulation of forward-thinking strategy

Module 8: Strategy implementation

Module 9: Evaluation and control

Module 10: Strategic alignment and ensuring sustainability

About the certificate

Acquire essential industry skills for effective strategic business management and earn an official certificate of completion from the University of Cape Town.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements. Please note, due to additional administrative requirements, at times UCT course certificate delivery may be delayed by several weeks/months.

Some facts about the subject

70%

The percentage of executives who feel their strategy is not clear enough about how they create value for their customers.

Strategy& (2019).

4 out of 5

The amount of executives who admit their business strategy isn’t well understood within their own company.

Strategy& (2019).

Why choose GetSmarter?

GetSmarter, an edX partner, delivers career-relevant, fully supported, and expert-led online courses from the world's leading universities and institutions. As an online learning expert with over 15 years' experience, GetSmarter leverages long-standing expertise in market research, data analysis, and business insights to ensure that you gain the skills critical to career growth.