GRA 8520 Strategy Analysis and Sustainable Value Creation
GRA 8520 Strategy Analysis and Sustainable Value Creation
This course is part of the Master of Management in Energy in cooperation with BI Norwegian Business School and IFP School.
The course adds to the energy program’s overall objective by addressing external forces in the green energy transition, as well providing analytical tools to evaluate organizations’ resources, capabilities, and activities. Being able to critically reflect on how organizations strategize in competitive and cooperative dimensions to create value is essential. Managers are increasingly facing triple bottom line demands from many stakeholders in an evolving ecosystem which will shape the future of energy supply and demand. This course will help participants to navigate and create novel paths of value creation, benefitting their own organizations and the society at large.
Upon completion, the student will be able to:
- Analyze and critically reflect upon the strategic fit between a company’s internal resources, capabilities, and activities, and its external context, including the influence of digitalization and AI-based decision support.
- Analyze and critically reflect upon the functioning of internal and external analytical tools and frameworks and their role in the overall strategy process.
- Analyze and critically reflect upon the essence of competitive and cooperative strategies.
- Analyze and critically reflect upon perspectives on value creation and the role of business models.
- Analyze and critically reflect upon systemic approaches to sustainable value creation in complex ecosystems.
Upon completion, the student will be able to:
- Apply and evaluate the functioning and use of internal and external analytical tools.
- Synthesize and integrate internal and external analytical tools to design effective business models and value creation strategies.
- Use insights from strategy analysis (e.g., through the SWOT framework) in generating, evaluating, and choosing strategic alternatives.
- Propose and justify strategies to foster value co-creation between different types of organizations/actors in the energy ecosystem.
- Evaluate the role and importance of internal and external relationships in the value creation process.
Upon completion, the student will be able to:
- Critically assess the systematic, coherent, and creative dimensions of strategy analysis.
- Analyze and evaluate the interplay between supply and demand in the energy ecosystem.
- Formulate and justify solutions for the role of firms and other stakeholders in creating a sustainable future in terms of energy supply and demand.
- Critically reflect on the opportunities and limitations of AI-supported analysis in strategic decision-making.
- Strategy analysis
- Perspectives on value creation
- Strategy in ecosystems
- The links between business models and strategy
1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours.
Sessions include lectures, seminars and group work.
Attendance to all sessions in the course is compulsory. If you have to miss part(s) of the course you must ask in advance for leave of absence. More than 25% absence in a course will require retaking the entire course. It's the student's own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class that is not included on the course homepage/ It's learning or other course materials.
Specific information regarding student evaluation beyond the information given in the course description will be provided in class.
The course is a part of a full Master of Management in Energy (MME) and examination in all courses must be passed in order to obtain a certificate.
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Granted admission to the Master of Management in Energy programme. Please consult our student regulations.
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Submission other than PDF Exam/hand-in semester: First Semester Weight: 60 Grouping: Individual Duration: 4 Week(s) Comment: Individual hand-in (case analysis) and an online oral discussion, counting 60% of the final grade. Students submit a pdf file, accompanied by a 15 min online oral discussion. Each individual student is responsible for recording and uploading the oral discussion on Wiseflow. Exam code: GRA 85202 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Submission other than PDF Weight: 40 Grouping: Group (4 - 8) Duration: 4 Week(s) Comment: Powerpoint presentation and an online oral defence, counting 40% of the final grade. The students submit a Powerpoint presentation as a pdf file of a complete strategy analysis. The submitted file is accompanied by an online oral presentation and defense. Each group is responsible for recording and uploading the oral discussion on Wiseflow. Exam code: GRA 85203 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
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Teaching | 40 Hour(s) | |
Student's own work with learning resources | 95 Hour(s) |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 5 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 135 hours.
