03 December  2022

The Intensive Seminar of Strategy Analysis and Evaluation (SAE) took place during the weekend, Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th of December 2022, in Strathclyde’s Greek Centre, International Management Studies (IMS), which is located in Chalandri, Athens.

The lecture was presented by Professor Harry Sminia and it was addressed to our students who study our Executive MBA and our Executive MBA with a specialism in Shipping.

It was a productive well-spent weekend with plenty of presences including our students who flew from Switzerland to join those who live in Greece and the others who attended the class virtually.

Strategy Analysis and Evaluation class aims to develop students’ ability to work as managers within complex, essentially dynamic and systematically interwoven organisational environments by providing them with the analytical skills to understand and use different strategy theories.

In general, SAE introduces students to different strategy theories that each can be used to critically analyse organisations and the issues that they are faced with. Additionally, the class provides to students with the means to develop and evaluate strategic options in terms of maintain and developing sustainable competitive advantage and legitimacy. It relies on experiential teaching methods and the goal of the class is for students to gain experience in undertaking rigorous in-depth analyses and formulating cogent, substantive and credible arguments defending a recommendation as it is being selected from a range of options for a particular strategic issue. At the end of the class students will have experienced working under conditions of incomplete information, ambiguity, uncertainty, and time constraints, common characteristics of strategic management and strategy development in fast-moving, competitive environments with conflicting interests.