The 12-month programme includes a total of seven subjects, presented as papers, plus an Integrated Case Based Project. The project and seven Papers are , as summarised here:

Case Based Learning Project: This is a group project, which entails analysing a business case and providing an integrated review and response to the challenges and opportunities raised. The case will typically have an Intrapreneurial flavour to it.

Financial Management: Focuses on aspects specific to entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, inter alia, alternative sources of capital, bootstrapping, financial contracting issues, insurance, private equity, taxation, valuing a business and key decision making concepts and tools including ratio analysis,  break even analysis, budgets and working capital management.

People Management: Focus is from the perspective of the manager of an SME, manage organisational behaviour, exercise leadership, carry out various human resource functions and comply with the South African labour relations framework and supporting legislation.

Strategic Marketing: Focus is on the place a marketing plan has within the overall business plan of an organisation. It examines the marketing strategies most appropriate under a range of different market and product life-cycle circumstances. The approach offers a template for developing a case study-based marketing plan that meets the needs of the firm’s aims and objectives within the context of a product and market for any aspiring entrepreneur. 

Leadership for Sustainability: Focus is on considering the changes to the organizational “playing field” resulting from increased awareness and demands for sound corporate governance and social and environmental accountability and how an understanding of these changes can assist in leveraging competitive advantage. Key themes that will be introduced are concepts of sustainable development within the South

African, regional and international contexts, governance and corporate social responsibility, plus local and international drivers and

considerations for business organisations.

Strategic Operations Management: Focus is on process types and process flows in manufacturing, performance measurement, benchmarking and re-engineering, production planning, quality management, lean thinking and world class manufacturing, sustainable supply chain management and procurement, risk assessment, life-cycle analysis and systems. MBA Aligned

Sustainable Economics:  Focus is on presenting an insight into the theoretical and applied Economics concepts required to engage successfully as a manager or business leader in a sustainable economy.  The module relies on two principal theoretical frameworks, namely Resource-Based Theory and Bourdieu's Theory on Capital. Key topics covered include scarcity, supply and demand, elasticity, competition and the regulation of markets, externality, poverty and inequality, the macroeconomic perspective, economic growth, inflation, money and banking, and the government's role. Also explores environmental economics. MBA Aligned

Business Development and Consulting: Focuses on the important role that consultants play in developing new business opportunities.  There are three components to this module, run at three different intervals.  This first  investigates the role of the business consultant and the consulting frameworks that support successful consulting engagements.  The second  investigates the role played and the importance of knowledge management within the developing organisation.  The third  examines communication theory and the critical role played by effective, ethical communicators within a business, both from a consulting as well as a general perspective. Assignments for each component are applied and unique to each students’ business environment. MBA Aligned

The 7 Papers combined are worth 84 credits and the Project is worth 36 credits totalling 120 credits

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