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    Master of Business Administration Business Scale Up

    Liverpool John Moores University

    Liverpool John Moores University

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    United Kingdom, Liverpool

    University RankQS Ranking
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    Key Facts

    Program Level

    Master by Course Work

    Study Type

    Part Time

    Delivery

    On Campus

    Campuses

    Main Site

    Program Language

    English

    Start & Deadlines

    Next Intake DeadlinesSeptember-2023
    Apply to this program

    Go to the official application for the university

    Duration 2 year(s)
    Tuition Fee
    GBP 17,400  / year
    Next Intake September-2023

    Master of Business Administration Business Scale Up

    About

    About this course

    Enhance your business or contribute to organisational growth by learning scale up approaches on this Business MBA from LJMU.

    • Study on a course designed in response to government and local ambitions for business growth  
    • Start your studies in September or January
    • Learn the key factors that enable business growth
    • Enjoy extra flexibility and fit your studies around your existing commitments with part of the course taught via block learning
    • Benefit from course content and teaching informed by proprietary business research and academics' close links to business

    A 'scale-up' is an enterprise that has experienced significant growth rates in employees and turnover over a number of years.

    Nationally, scale-up businesses have been identified as a priority area, recognised by the appointment of a scale up champion in Government who aims to increase the number of businesses maximising opportunities to reach their growth potential. This will feed into the Government's industrial strategy.

    MBAs equip managers with a broad and rich understanding of business, enabling them to manage effectively. This scale up MBA focuses on the key areas a business would need to investigate to assess scale up potential. The course combines key management disciplines from the key QAA and CMI benchmark statements with recent national research on the drivers of business scale up.

    The programme is structured in three phases. The first phase provides an intensive focused range of interventions aimed at realising the potential of growth within businesses. Stages two and three then draw on these areas to analyse ideas and develop them further to plan and enable accelerated growth. Finally, a strategic project builds the evidence base for scale up strategies, and addresses a significant and strategic area for your business.

     

    Liverpool Business School at Liverpool John Moores University is a member of AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. 

    AACSB International is a global association of leaders in education and business dedicated to supporting and advancing quality business education worldwide. Through membership, accreditation, research, thought leadership, professional development, and advocacy, AACSB partners with over 1,500 organizations, from more than 90 countries globally. Membership or participation in the Global Education Alliance does not imply accreditation.

    "Hi-impact is unrecognisable compared to when we started the MBA Scale up programme. The core consultancy business is stronger, and we have new business streams and products that are on target to generate revenue of £100K in their first year."

    Alan Thompson Managing Director Hi-impact Consultancy.

    • Postgraduate students and graduates share their experience of studying at Liverpool Business School

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    Course modules

    Discover the building blocks of your programme

    Your programme is made up of a number of core modules which are part of the course framework. Some programmes also have optional modules that can be selected to enhance your learning in certain areas and many feature a dissertation, extended report or research project to demonstrate your advanced learning.

    On this programme your modules will explore:

    • Accelerating business growth 
    • Developing the business for scale
    • Leadership strategies to enable growth
    • A business growth project
    Core modules

    Scale-up Leadership
    10 credits

    This module aims to help you identify your own leadership needs through:

    • self-review and an assessment of your business scale-up context
    • considering the way leaders engage and equip those around them to scale the business
    • developing a growth mind-set 

    Fast Strategy Market Access
    10 credits

    This module aims to help you assess strategy approaches to accelerate business growth by:

    • investigating routes to market growth and building customers 
    • identifying strategies for high growth potential businesses 
    • learning about support for market entry and access to markets 

    Productivity, Talent and Excellence
    10 credits

    This module aims to help you:

    • understand the interplay between productivity, people and performance within excellence frameworks 
    • identify key business issues that are recognised to underpin growth 

    Finance for Scale-ups
    10 credits

    This module aims to provide knowledge and understanding of the financial aspects of scaling up a business. 

    Leading Agile Projects and Change
    10 credits

    This module aims to provide you with:

    • an understanding of the need for responsive projects to grow business and achieve change quickly 
    • a focus on emerging projects and change practices evidenced in agile and lean approaches 

    Digital Business, Innovation and Sustainability
    10 credits

    This module aims to help you to:

    • develop your knowledge and skills to innovate 
    • focus on digital business and technology as a high potential area to scale-up a business
    • appreciate the value of building a sustainable future, both with corporate social responsibility and adopting principles for the long-term benefit of the business and its wider contribution to society

    Business Development
    30 credits

    This module enables you to bring together the different strands of scaling up a business and consider how they integrate to develop a business. 

    Leading Business Growth
    20 credits

    This module provides you with the skills and knowledge to lead business growth. 

    Research Strategies for Practitioners
    10 credits

    This module enables you to develop a conceptual framework from which research philosophies, strategies and methods associated with leadership business and management can be critically reviewed.  You will apply research methods in the strategic leadership/business consultancy project to develop yourself as a reflective, scholarly practitioner.


    Business Growth Project
    60 credits

    This module aims to encourage you to undertake a work-based business growth project.  This will enable you to:

    • put into practice the skills and knowledge gained during the course
    • apply concepts from wider management literature
    • conceptualise and propose high performance strategies on growth/sustainable outcomes 

    Disciplines

    Faculty of Business and Law

    Requirements

    Entry Requirements

    Applicants require a Bachelor's degree with GPA: 2.5/4.0 /Good.

    Career

    Further your career prospects

    LJMU has an excellent employability record with 96% (HESA 2018) of our postgraduates in work or further study six months after graduation. Our applied learning techniques and strong industry connections ensure our students are fully prepared for the workplace on graduation and understand how to apply their knowledge in a real world context.

    On graduation from the programme you will see a marked improvement in day-to-day performance, confidence and learning in the workplace, as well as improvements in your ability to demonstrate new skills learnt during the course.

    By combining experience with new management thinking developed over the lifetime of the MBA, you will also see improvements in decision-making, contributions to idea generation and business improvement.

    Fee Information

    Tuition Fee

    GBP 17,400  / year

    How to Apply

    Submit your application
    Once you are happy that you satisfy the entry criteria, you should begin your application. You have a choice to apply direct to the University via our online application form or visit one of our trusted recruitment agents overseas who can do this on your behalf. You can find their details by searching for your country on our website. 

    What happens next?

    Check your emails regularly. Your offer will come in the form of an email with your official offer letter attached. Simply accept or decline your offer by clicking on the appropriate buttons in your email. 

    Once an offer has been made, applicants will have a further 28 days to pay a deposit for the course. 

    And then?
    Download your Campus Connect app and meet your new classmates! All of our offer holders receive exclusive access to our Campus Connect app, where they can meet others on their course, read articles about the city and University and chat in open or private forums with members of staff and current students to build a community before they begin their course. 

    Important Considerations

    If you wish to apply to study a full-time taught Masters, Masters by Research, MPhil/PhD at LJMU, you should check if you also require an Academic Technology Approval Scheme or ATAS certificate. It can take four to six weeks to receive an ATAS certificate, so please make sure you apply as early as possible. You can find out more on the British Government website.

    In order to obtain a student visa you will also need to show evidence that the money required to cover your tuition fees and living expenses has been in your bank account for at least 28 consecutive days and within one month prior to submitting your visa application. It is therefore very important that you make sure your finances are in place before applying for your visa. For advice on any aspect of the application process, please check the latest UK government advice.

    The University may make changes to a programme of study or module where such changes are deemed to be beneficial to students, are minor in nature and unlikely to impact negatively upon students or become necessary due to circumstances beyond the control of the University. Where such decisions are made, you will be informed of every outcome. 

    Any Questions?

    Our International Recruitment Team are always here to support you. They are available at numerous times throughout the month via our On Demand platform. Chat to them in our regular online drop-in sessions.  

    Applying for a Research degree
    Before you apply, we recommend that you contact the Faculty or School you are interested in to check that they have an appropriate supervisor who can enrich and support your research. Entry requirements for our research degrees can be found in the online postgraduate fact files. Once you are confident you have the support in place, you should submit your application and allow your faculty to process your application officially.

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    Master of Business Administration Business Scale Up

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