This module will be delivered via:
- One 3-hour session per week.
Students are expected to do some relevant reading and preparation before the associated lecture.
While we will go through some of the material in class, it is strongly recommended, however, that these should not be the only times you encounter the reading material. More material than is needed to understand the lectures is included in the teaching programme. This larger set of papers and chapters will be useful for you when you reach the stage where you need to prepare essays for the examination. Furthermore, three textbooks on corporate architecture are listed in the textbook section and are there to give you three different styles of explanation, should one not gel with you, try the other two. While this module is less computational than the one on Accounting and Finance from last term, there is a quantitative element in this module too. Furthermore, as you will come to realise, both courses are, of course, inter-related. This module is also related to strategy and human resources. I will highlight their contact points as we proceed through the material. I would like you to engage with the issues and not get engrossed in the details that the quantitative aspects seek merely to illustrate. Marks, in the examination, are awarded mainly for comprehending and for being able to convey the concepts and issues aptly and not for merely securing correct computations. You may need to present selected reading and case précis in class in the ten sessions of the course, as time permits. I will allocate you to groups and though such presentations are not formally assessed, you will find, nonetheless, that an absence of satisfactory participation in these presentations can result in lesser than desirable performance in the examination, if only because the discussions cover material that will be covered in the examination.