STRATEGIC CONTROL AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2017/2018
- Teacher
- EMIDIA VAGNONI
- Credits
- 9
- Curriculum
- Small and medium enterprises(SMEs) in international markets
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- SECS-P/07
Training objectives
- The Subject offers knowledge about the process of strategic management (i.e. strategic
planning, strategy implementation and strategic control) and performance measurement. Furthermore, it teaches students how to link the knowledge acquired from different functional courses, enabling them to better understand the linkages among different organizational levels and functional fields in the organization. Furthermore, the Subject aims at developing students' capacity to design strategic control systems and apply performance measurement framework in firms' real life, no matter what the business model is. Prerequisites
- Basics of business administration, financial accounting and organization studies are required. Furthermore, a fluent English language ability (understanding, writing, speaking) is recommended.
Course programme
- Section I - Strategic management of the firm (20 hours about)
Introduction to strategic management
Environmental analysis
Corporate strategies, Business strategies, and
Functional strategies
Competitive advantage Model
Strategy formulation and Strategy implementation
Strategy deployment: Strategic Map, and Hoshin Kanri
Business model
Sustainability and Business model
Strategic management and entrepreneurial capabilities
Strategy formulation and emerging markets (Iran)
Section II - Strategic control models (40 hours about)
Strategic control systems
Financial control vs multidimensional control approach
Performance definition
Organizational performance, managerial performance, social performance
Strategic control and performance management: the role of stakeholders
Organizational Performance management frameworks
Strategic models, Organizational models, and Managerial models
Balanced Scorecard
Sustainable Balanced Scorecard
Performance Tree by Lebas
Performance Pyramid by Lynch & Cross
Performance Prysm
Tableau de Bord
The role of Analytics
Triple Bottom Line model
Sustainability metrics
Social and environmental reporting
Intellectual capital models
Section III - Individual performance (about 12 hours)
Managerial Performance
Motivation and rewarding mechanisms
4Ps model
Designing individual rewarding systems
Social Performance Didactic methods
- Teaching methods include:
- lectures,
- case studies (at list with regard to detecting key successful factors, strategy deployment, some strategic control model, managerial performance measurement systems),
- site visits/seminar in class by Zhermack top managers. Learning assessment procedures
- Written exam, compulsory for student assessment, organized on average on 18-20 close tests and at list 2 open questions/exercises. Points will be deducted from the maximum mark, based on wrong answers. Not replied questions will be considered as wrong ones.
Colloquium (oral exam), related to all the contents of the subject, will last on average 10 minutes and it counts about thee different main questions.
Both written exam and colloquium will be done based on the formal exams' calendar approved by the Department.
Mark related to the written exam will last until the end of the exams' session. After that, the student who have not successfully passed the colloquium yet, will have to do the written exam again. Reference texts
- Course reading package will be available to the students at the copy shop Papermoon, via Voltapaletto, 18A.
Further readings could eventually be made available to deepen some contents. These materials would be available in the folder related to the course web page. Students are required to log in.
