Strategic Management

This online Postgraduate Certificate in Strategic Management is a popular CPD option for current or aspiring leaders. If you want to make your organisation more sustainable, reach markets overseas, or encourage entrepreneurial and creative thinking

The highlights

• This is an online PG Cert Strategic Management that's relevant to people working in all sectors: private, public and third
• It's a one-year course that provides a good introduction to strategic management and can be a stepping-stone to the full online MSc Strategic Management or online MSc Strategic Sustainability Managementآ· It's accredited by ILM. This enables you to gain a professional qualification in addition to the PG Cert, for no extra work or cost. It also gives you access to ILM member benefits, including professional events, resources, research and insights
• We've won acclaim in the higher education world for our innovative approach to entrepreneurship and 'intrapreneurship'
• You will be encouraged to think creatively and test out your ideas and strategies by running a virtual business. This is known as business simulation

Start to become a strategic thinker and leader

A robust strategy, implemented well and managed effectively, enables organisations to operate competitively and to thrive in an ever-changing business landscape. The success of a strategy's execution depends largely on the talent and capability of its leadership - even a great strategy can fail if it's not well-executed.

On this online PG Cert in Strategic Management, we aim to provide you with the foundations to become a modern strategic thinker and leader, who can bring about change in the organisations you work for. These could be organisations in the private, public or third sectors.

You will gain a fundamental understanding of how to plan, formulate and execute strategy through innovative and entrepreneurial approaches. The programme has three central themes, which are important to all organisations today, wherever they are based in the world:

• Entrepreneurship / Intrapreneurship - We've been praised for our innovative approach to entrepreneurship. Although many courses teach entrepreneurship in the context of new start-ups, our MSc focuses on embedding entrepreneurial practices within more established companies (known as 'intrapreneurship').
  
  We encourage you to innovate and come up with new ideas, products, services and processes, that can help organisations achieve their targets or objectives. These objectives might be to create growth, find a competitive edge, or respond to specific challenges.
• Sustainability - Any organisation that wants a long-term future, needs to make sustainability integral to its strategy. On this PG Cert, we're aiming to create strategic leaders who can align business models with sustainable economies and can re-invent products for a more sustainable future.
• Internationalisation - We live in a global economy, accelerated by the rise of e-commerce, which means that internationalisation affects all types of organisation - small, medium and large; public, private and non-profit. But there are many challenges and barriers between countries - institutional, cultural, geographical, environmental - and it's vital that strategic leaders understand these so they can make good decisions.
  
  Through our core module, International Business Strategies, you will explore this topic in more detail and learn how to prepare organisations for inevitable challenges, such as changing political ideologies, wars and conflicts, supply chain issues and commodity price rises.