External & Internal Organisational Growth Strategy, Postgraduate Course

PG Course Number 084 - External and Organic Organisational Growth Strategy: In Pursuit of Organisational Effectiveness, Postgraduate Course, Leading to Diploma – Postgraduate - in External and Organic Organisational Growth Strategy, Double-Credit, 60 Credit-Hours, accumulating to a Postgraduate Certificate, with 120 additional Credit-Hours, and a Postgraduate Diploma, with 300 additional Credit-Hours. Click To Download PDF Brochure.

Contents include: Conducting an Organisation’s Internal Analysis: Determining Its Strengths and Weaknesses (SW); Assessing Organisational Strengths; Determining an Organisation’s Weaknesses; Eliminating Organisational Weaknesses or Conceding ‘Exposure’ Avoidance?; Aligning Organisational Strengths with Its Strategic and Operational Plans; External Growth Strategy Contextualised; External Integration and Its Ramifications for Organisational Effectiveness; Mergers as a Strategic Choice: Balancing the ‘Act’; Business and Organisation Acquisitions or Takeovers: Synergy or Asset Stripping; Joint Ventures: Limiting Wealth or Mitigating Risk?; Horizontal or Vertical Integration: Assessing Direction of Market Forces; Horizontal Integration: Solidifying Operational ‘Status’; Vertical Integration: Calculated Strategic Repositioning; Vertical Integration Forward: Influencing End-Users’ Choice; Vertical Integration Backward: Impacting Sourcing Strategy; Conglomerate Integration: Omnipresence or Hodgepodge?

Doctor of Philosophy {(PhD) {University College London (UCL) - University of London)};

MEd Management (University of Bath);

Postgraduate (Advanced) Diploma Science Teacher Ed. (University of Bristol);

Postgraduate Certificate in Information Systems (University of West London, formerly Thames Valley University);

Diploma in Doctoral Research Supervision, (University of Wolverhampton);

Teaching Certificate;

Fellow of the Institute of Management Specialists;

Human Resources Specialist, of the Institute of Management Specialists;

Member of the Asian Academy of Management (MAAM);

Member of the International Society of Gesture Studies (MISGS);

Member of the Standing Council for Organisational Symbolism (MSCOS);

Member of ResearchGate;

Executive Member of Academy of Management (AOM). There, his contribution incorporates the judging of competitions, review of journal articles, and guiding the development of conference papers. He also contributes to the Disciplines of:

Human Resources;

Organization and Management Theory;

Organization Development and Change;

Research Methods;

Conflict Management;

Organizational Behavior;

Management Consulting;

Gender & Diversity in Organizations; and

Critical Management Studies.

Professor Dr. Crawford has been an Academic in the following UK Universities:

University of London (Royal Holloway), as Research Tutor;

University of Greenwich (Business School), as Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management;

University of Wolverhampton, (Wolverhampton Business School), as Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management;

London Southbank University (Business School), as Lecturer and Unit Leader.

His responsibilities in these roles included:

Doctoral Research Supervisor;

Admissions Tutor;

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Dissertation Supervisor;

Programme Leader;

Personal Tutor.

He was formerly an Expatriate at:

Ministry of Education, Sokoto, Nigeria;

Ministry of Science and Technical Education, Sokoto, Nigeria;

University of Sokoto, Nigeria;

College of Education, Sokoto, Nigeria; and

Former Editor-In-Chief of ‘Sokoto Journal of Education’.

 

• Chief Executives;

• Chief Executive Officers (CEOs);

• Corporate Directors;

• Divisional Heads;

• Vice Presidents;

• General Managers;

• Corporate Strategists;

• Business Development Directors;

• Chief Business Development Officer;

• Business Studies Lecturers;

• Business Consultants;

• Chief Financial Officers (CFOs);

• Chief Marketing Officer;

• Chief Operating Officers;

• Chief Product Officer;

• Production Superintendent;

• Product Engineers;

• Process Engineers;

• Chief Process Engineers;

• Organisational Development Specialists;

• Organisational Enhancement Officers;

• Collaborative Officers;

• All others who are desirous of gaining enhanced understanding of the pertinent issues associated with:

• Organisational Efficiency and Effectiveness;

• Micro Organisational Development;

• Macro Organisational Development;

• Internal Analysis;

• External Organisational Analysis;

• Organisational Strengths;

• Organisational Weaknesses;

• Internal Growth Strategy;

• External Growth Strategy;

• Internal or Organic Growth;

• Market Penetration Strategy;

• Market Development or Market Expansion Strategy;

• Product or Service Expansion or Development Strategy, etc.

• Diversification Strategy.

                      

OBJECTIVES TO BE ADDED SOON

Part 1. Organisational Development for Efficiency and Effectiveness.

Part 2. Contextualising Strengths and Weaknesses (SW), and Their Organisational Implications.

Part 3. Strategic Operational Review: Conceptualising Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental (PESTEL) External Uncontrollable Factors.

Part 4. Strategic Operational Review: Conceptualising Political, Economic, Social, and Technological Issues.

Part 5. Addressing The Legal,  and Environmental Issues Associated With Current and Future Organisational Operation.

Part 6. Organisational External Analysis: Understanding the Threats Posed, and Opportunities Presented, by Prevailing or Anticipated PESTEL Factors.

Part 7. Focusing on, and Addressing, Social and Technological  Threats: Maintaining and Enhancing Organisational Effectiveness.

Part 8. Legal and Environmental Threats: Maintaining or Increasing Competitive Advantage, For Organisational Survival.

Part 9. Formulating and Executing Organisational External Growth Strategy

Part 10. Organisational Internal Growth Strategy.

 

 PG Course Number 084 - External and Organic Organisational Growth Strategy: In Pursuit of Organisational Effectiveness, Postgraduate Course, Leading to Diploma – Postgraduate - in External and Organic Organisational Growth Strategy, Double-Credit, 60 Credit-Hours, accumulating to a Postgraduate Certificate, with 120 additional Credit-Hours, and a Postgraduate Diploma, with 300 additional Credit-Hours. Click To Download PDF Brochure.