Managing & Sustaining Profitable Growth

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to identify and analyse business and investment opportunities in geographic regions, markets and industries in a granular manner; to apply a set of analytical tools to identify the key steps of firm growth, survival and value creations; to demonstrate understanding on the key business architectures needed to ensure organizational growth; to create and appraise strategic innovations, new services and effective business models as the foundation of company growth strategies

Topics

Many growth initiatives fail to realize their aspiration, yielding either far less growth than expected or growth that generates no profit. The simultaneous pursuit of growth and profitability is on of the most exquisite and difficult dilemmas. Both are required for creating economic value of the firm. Managing and Sustaining Profitable Growth course deals with issues in managing and sustaining profitable growth, by answering the following questions: Why is profitable growth is so elusive? What can and must be done to drive profitable growth? How to balance short and long term business needs? The course will look at both organic and inorganic growth. In particular, it centers on internal

firm resources and capabilities that facilitate strategic innovation as the source of profitable growth.