Course: Strategic Change Plan credits: 16

Main learning outcomes

• Produces a strategic change plan, based on research, which describes the gaps between the existing and desired situation for an organisation's facility and accommodation processes and strategy, and makes recommendations for suitable changes to effective and efficient facility and accommodation processes/concepts (relating to energy, sustainability and hospitality, for example) and how they can be implemented.
• Defends, justifies and evaluates the strategic change plan produced in a presentation, and reflects on the approach, the process, personal performance, professionalism and dilemmas.

The student (competence 2):

• develops a vision on changes and trends in the external environment and on developing relationships, networks and chains
• carries out a strategic market analysis to identify opportunities and threats in the market (both nationally and internationally)
• translates the benefits and risks of potential multidisciplinary partnerships with other organisations (Make, Buy, Ally) into strategic choices for the organisation

The student (competence 4):

• applies human resource management in the context of the organisation’s strategy
• makes theoretically underpinned recommendations regarding the leadership style that is appropriate to the change process and the change organisation in an intercultural context
• develops an HR strategy, taking into account the individual abilities of employees within the multicultural context of the organisation
• selects the right HR tools (e.g. development, pay, performance management) to improve employees’ performance, motivation and their agreed services

The student (competence 5):

• manages and improves business and organisational processes
• compares the corporate processes relating to facility management and the strategy of an organisation in order to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the primary process for the deployment of people and resources, and to determine the required multidisciplinary strategy. You achieve this by collecting and analysing information and by determining the strategy

The student (competence 7):

• develops and makes proposals for the evaluation of a change process