BST 9742 Small Business Development
BST 9742 Small Business Development
This course, together with BTH 9743 Bachelor Thesis - Small Business Development, 15 ECTS, makes up a specialisation of 30 ECTS, which is included in the students final diploma. The course applies to students enrolled on the Bachelors Programme in Marketing or the Bachelors Programme in Business Administration. Other students may choose this course as an elective in their 3rd year.
The course aims at qualifying students for management of small and medium-sized enterprises SMEs as well as for consultancy work for SMEs. This entails that the specialisation has ties to the business community. Cases and discussions are used to enable students to find work methods for contributing optimally to their own and other students learning. Hence the students become responsible for the learning processes, together with the organizers of the processes.
After completed course students shall have:
- Acquired basic knowledge about SME's role and importance i our society
- Acquired knowledge of leadership and boar performance in a SME, through having learned about leadership and board performance in different sycluses form start up to liquidation of a company
- Aquired knowledge about support systems and risk management in a SME.
- Know about critical sucsessfactors and competitive advantage for a SME
After completed course students shall be able to:
- Prepare a business plan with focus on how to develop SMEs.
- Analyse management needs for companies in various phases.
- Prepare plans with budgets and economic consequence analyses.
The students should develop respect for the complexity of enterprises.
The students should be able to practice solution-oriented behaviour with ethical reflection.
The students should be able to developing sustainable solutions in an SME
- The funktion of the board and leadership in SMR
- The board and the operative daily leadership
- The internar roles in the board. Formal design and unformal interaction, team and team leadership, board competence
- The boards function and leadership challenges with different phases in a company’s life and the board function I various type of companies
- The digital paradigm – board an leadership in the digitalization
- Formal aspects with the boards work with focus on the law and regulations
- The boards responsibility for developing parent management tools with focus on innovation,strategy and value creation
- The boards responsibility for developing finance, risk management, fusion, fission, leadership information – and steering systems
- Inovation and development form the entrepreneurial phase to ordinary operations – developement of business models
- Strategick management and strategic process in SME’s
During the first part of the term there will be given a work task that must be aproved. The assignment is a demand for delivering the final term paper.
The task may be solved alone or in groups of up to three people. The written task will be given feedback in plenary. The task is mandatory.
Students must employ PCs with Internet access. There are no particular requirements as regards IT competence but students must be familiar with using the Internet, database searches and using computer-based tools to analyse, structure and present information. Active use of BI’s Internet-based learning platform It’s Learning.
From the academic year 2020/2021 , the examination form has changed.
Re-sit examiniation in BST 97421 counting 100%, will be offered in autumn 2020 and last time spring 2021.
Two years of college education in business administration or equivalent.
Covid-19
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there may be deviations in teaching and learning activities as well as exams, compared with what is described in this course description.
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| Mandatory coursework | Courseworks given | Courseworks required | Comment coursework |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mandatory | 1 | 1 |
| Assessments |
|---|
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 60 Grouping: Group/Individual (1 - 3) Duration: 1 Semester(s) Comment: The topic of the term paper is preparation of a plan for developing SMEs with focus on critical sucessfactors and risk. Exam code: BST97422 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Structured test Invigilation Weight: 40 Grouping: Individual Support materials:
Duration: 3 Hour(s) Comment: Written exam by testing on theoretical knowledge up against the course theory Exam code: BST97423 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination when next scheduled course |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
| Course code | Credit reduction |
|---|---|
| BIK 2940 | 100 |
Kurset BIK 2940 sperrer 100% mot kurset BST 9742 Bedriftsutvikling for SMB.
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
|---|---|---|
Teaching | 74 Hour(s) | |
Prepare for teaching | 30 Hour(s) | |
Group work / Assignments | 60 Hour(s) | |
Group work / Assignments | 120 Hour(s) | |
Student's own work with learning resources | 56 Hour(s) | |
Examination | 3 Hour(s) | |
Examination | 57 |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 15 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 400 hours.