Lessons - Amazon S3



The scheme of work is based on 4, 1 hour lessons per week. Timings are approximate and the scheme covers approximately 91 teaching hours. This leaves time to build in assessment activities, lessons to re-cap/ re-visit Year 1 content and lessons devoted to revision and exam practice

A suggested two teacher Year 2 structure is as follows:

Teacher One:

3.7.1 Mission, corporate objectives and strategy (4 hours)

3.8 Choosing Strategic Direction (6 hours)

3.9 Strategic Methods: How to Pursue Strategies (23 hours)

3.10.1 Managing Change (8 hours)

3.10.2 Managing Organisational Culture (4 hours)

Total (approximate) hours 45 hours

Teacher Two:

3.7.2 - 3.7.8 Analysing the internal/ external position of a business (34 hours)

3.10.3 Managing Strategic Implementation (6 hours)

3.10.4 Problems with Strategy and why Strategies Fail (6 hours)

Total (approximate) hours 46 hours

|Lessons |AQA Specification/ Content |AQA Additional Information |Key Resources/ Activities |

| |3.7 Analysing the strategic position of a business | | |

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| |3.7.1 Mission, corporate objectives and strategy | | |

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|4 |Influences on the mission of a business | | |

| |Internal and external influences on corporate objectives | |On a mission – discussion activity on google in China |

| |and decisions |Influences on corporate objectives should | |

| |The links between mission, corporate objectives and |include the pressures for short termism |Mission statements – Revision presentation |

| |strategy |business ownership , the external and internal |

| |The impact of strategic decision making on functional |environment |sentation |

| |decision making | | |

| |The value of SWOT analysis | | |

| | | |SWOT analysis – Study note |

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| |3..7.2 Analysing the existing internal position of a | | |

| |business to assess strengths and weaknesses: financial | | |

| |ratio analysis | | |

| | | |What Happened Next – Balance sheet activity |

| |How to assess the financial performance of a business |Financial ratio analysis to include | |

|7 |using balance sheets, income statements and financial |Profitability (ROCE) |The Accountant – Income statement activity |

| |ratios |Liquidity (current ratio) | |

| |The value of financial ratios when assessing performance |Gearing |Balance Sheet – Revision quiz |

| | |Efficiency ratios: payables days, receivables | |

| | |days, inventory turnover | |

| | |Data may be analysed over time or in comparison|Using financial accounts to assess business performance – Study note |

| | |with other businesses |

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| |3.7.3 Analysing the existing internal position of a | | |

| |business to assess strengths and weaknesses: overall | | |

| |performance | | |

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|5 |How to analyse data other than financial statements to |Data other than financial statements should |Opportunity to re-cap Year 1 Content: |

| |assess the strengths and weaknesses of a business |include operations, human resource and |3.3.1 market share |

| |The importance of core competencies |marketing data |3.4.2 labour productivity, unit costs, capacity and capacity utilisation |

| |Assessing short and long-term performance |Methods of assessing performance to include |3.6.2 labour turnover and retention rates, employee costs as a percentage|

| |The value of different measures of assessing business |Kaplan and Norton’s Balance Scorecard model and|of turnover and labour cost per unit |

| |performance |Elkington’s Triple Bottom Line (Profit, People | |

| | |and Planet) |Video – Robert Kaplan, the Balance Scorecard |

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| | | |Video – Nova Nordisk, the triple bottom line |

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| | | |Southwest Airlines – 2013 triple bottom line report |

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| | | |The economist – triple bottom line |

| |3.7.4 Analysing the external environment to assess | | |

| |opportunities and threats: political and legal change | | |

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| |The impact of changes in the political and legal | | |

| |environment on strategic and functional decision making |The political and legal environment should |Business Legislation – Revision presentation |

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|3 | |effects of UK and EU law related to |lation |

| | |competition, the labour market and environment | |

| | |legislation. |Is the sugar tax a threat to business? – blog |

| | |The impact of UK and EU Government policy |

| | |related to enterprise, the role of regulators, |s |

| | |infrastructure, the environment and | |

| | |international trade | |

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| |3.7.5 Analysing the external environment to assess | | |

| |opportunities and threats: economic change | | |

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| |The impact of changes in the UK and the global economic | | |

| |environment on strategic and functional decision making |Economic factors to include GDP, taxation, |Opportunity to re-cap Year 1 content: |

| |Reasons for greater globalisation of business |exchange rates, inflation, fiscal and monetary |3.1.3 factors influencing costs and demand; interest rates |

|8 |The importance of globailisation for business |policy, more open trade v protectionism | |

| |The importance of emerging economies for business |Students should be able to understand economic |Business cycle cards – paired group activity |

| | |data, interpret changes in economic data for | |

| | |the UK, the EU and globally, and consider the |Dicey exchange rates – Exchange rate activity |

| | |implications of such changes and business | |

| | | |China aspires to IKEA – video and student activity |

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| |3.7.6 Analysing the external environment to assess the | | |

| |opportunities and threats: social and technological | | |

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| |The impact of the social and technological environment on| | |

| |strategic and functional decision making |Social changes to include demographic changes |Opportunity to re-cap Year 1 content: |

| |The pressure for socially responsible behaviour |and population movements such as urbanisation |3.1.3 factors influencing costs and demand; demographic factors, |

| | |and migration, changes in consumer lifestyle |environmental issues and fair trade |

|4 | |and buying behaviour, the growth of online | |

| | |businesses |The only way is ethics – group activity |

| | |The social environment to include CSR, the | |

| | |reasons for and against CSR, the difference |Business ethics – revision quiz |

| | |between the stakeholder v shareholder concept | |

| | |and Carroll’s CSR pyramid | |

| | |Technological change should include the impact |CSR revision video |

| | |of technological change on functional areas and|

| | |strategy |-csr-revision-video |

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| |3.7.7 Analysing the external environment to assess | | |

| |opportunities and threats: the competitive environment | | |

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| |Porters five forces, how and why these might change, and | | |

|2 |the implications of these forces for strategic and |An understanding of the five forces to include |Porters five forces – revision quiz |

| |functional decision making and profits |entry threat (barriers to entry), buyer power, |

| | |supplier power, rivalry, substitute threat |ion-quiz |

| | |Students should consider how the five forces | |

| | |shape competitive strategy |Porters five forces – revision video |

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| | | |Taylor Swift meets Michael Porters five forces – blog |

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| |3.7.8 Analysing strategic options: investment appraisal | | |

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| |Financial methods of assessing an investment | | |

| |Factors influencing investment decisions |Investment appraisal should include the |Uncle Wong’s Big Decision – group activity on investment appraisal (also |

| |The value of sensitivity analysis |calculation and interpretation of payback, |incorporates break-even, profit, labour productivity and capacity |

| | |average rate of return and net present value |utilisation) |

|5 | |Factors to include investment criteria, | |

| | |non-financial factors, risk and uncertainty |Investment appraisal – revision quiz |

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| | | |Investment appraisal – revision webinar |

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| |3.8 Choosing Strategic Direction | | |

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| |3.8. 1Strategic direction: choosing which markets to | | |

| |compete in and what products to offer | | |

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| |Factors influencing which markets to compete in and which| | |

| |products to offer | | |

| |The reasons for choosing and value of different options |Strategic direction to include the Ansoff |Video – Cliff Bowman on strategy |

|3 |for strategic direction |matrix and value of market penetration, market | |

| | |development, new product development and |Kinaesthetic Ansoff – group activity |

| | |diversification | |

| | | |Ansoffs matrix – revision quiz |

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| | | |Sainsbury’s strategic direction – student activity which also re-caps |

| | | |Year 1 content on understanding markets |

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| |3.8.2 Strategic positioning: choosing how to compete | | |

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| |How to compete in terms of benefits and price | | |

| |Influences on the choice of positioning strategy |Strategic positioning to include Porter’s low |Bowman’s strategic clock – study note |

|3 |The value of different strategic positioning strategies |cost, differentiation and focus strategies |

| |The benefits of having competitive advantage |Bowman’s strategic clock |trategy-clock |

| |The difficulties of maintaining competitive advantage | | |

| | | |Porter’s generic strategies – study note |

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| | | |Video – Strategy clock summary |

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| |3.9 Strategic methods: how to pursue strategies | | |

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| |3.9.1 Assessing a change in scale | | |

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| |The reasons why businesses grow or retrench | | |

| |The difference between organic and external growth | | |

| |How to manage and overcome the problems of growth or |Types of growth to include organic and external|Economies and diseconomies of scale – revision presentation |

| |retrenchment |Issues with growth should include economies of |

| |The impact of growth or retrenchment on the functional |scale (including technical, purchasing and |scale-revision-presentation |

|7 |areas of a business |managerial), economies of scope, diseconomies | |

| |Assessing methods of types of growth |if scale, the experience curve, synergy and |Back to back squared – diseconomies of scale activity |

| | |overtrading | |

| | |Issues with managing growth should include |Diseconomies with Mickey Mouse |

| | |Greiner’s model of growth | |

| | |Methods of growth to include mergers, | |

| | |takeovers, ventures, franchising |Video – Greiner’s model of growth |

| | |Types of growth to include vertical (backward | |

| | |and forward), horizontal and conglomerate |Takeovers and mergers – revision presentation |

| | |integration |

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| |3.9.2 Assessing innovation | | |

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| |The pressures of innovation |Types of innovation should include product and |Kaizen toast – Teacher led Kaizen activity |

| |The value of innovation |process innovation | |

|4 |The ways of becoming an innovative organisation |Ways of becoming innovative include Kaizen. |What is benchmarking – study note |

| |How to protect innovation and intellectual property |Research and development, intrapreneurship and | |

| |The impact of an innovation strategy on the functional |benchmarking | |

| |areas of a business |Ways or protecting intellectual property | |

| | |include patents and copyrights | |

| |3.9.3 Assessing internationalisation | | |

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| |Reasons for targeting, operating and trading with |Methods of entering international markets |China aspires to IKEA – video and student activity |

| |international markets |include export, licensing, alliances and direct| |

| |Factors influencing the attractiveness of international |investment |Trunki – reshoring video |

| |markets |Decisions regarding producing overseas include | |

| |Reasons for producing more and sourcing more resources |off-shoring and re-shoring |Hornby – reshoring video |

|8 |abroad |Targeting overseas markets may include being a | |

| |Ways of entering international markets and value of |multinational |Sainsbury’s strategic direction – student activity which also re-caps |

| |different methods |Managing international business including |Year 1 content on understanding markets |

| |Influences on buying, selling and producing abroad |Bartlett and Ghosal’s international, | |

| |Managing international business including pressures for |multi-domestic, transnational and global | |

| |local responsiveness and pressures for cost reduction |strategies | |

| |The impact on internationalisation for the functional | | |

| |areas of the business | | |

| |3.9.4 Assessing greater use of digital technology | | |

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| |The pressures to adopt digital technology | | |

|4 |The value of digital technology |Digital technology should include e-commerce, |Big data– FT video |

| |The impact of digital technology on the functional areas |big data, data mining and enterprise resource | |

| |of a business |planning (ERP) | |

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| |3.10 Managing strategic change | | |

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| |3.10.1 Managing change | | |

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| |Causes and pressures for change | | |

| |The value of change |Types of change include internal, external, |Video – John Kotter, resistance to change |

|8 |The value of a flexible organisation |incremental and disruptive change | |

| |The value of managing information and knowledge |Managing change should include Lewin’s force |All change at Broake shoes – student activity |

| |Barriers to change |field analysis | |

| |How to overcome barriers to change |Flexible organisations include restructuring, |Change management – revision video |

| | |delayering, flexible employment contracts, |

| | |organic structures v mechanistic, knowledge and|o |

| | |information management | |

| | |Kotter and Schlesinger’s four reasons for |Force Field Analysis study note |

| | |resistance to change |

| | |Kotter and Schlesinger’s six ways of overcoming|ins-force-field-model |

| | |resistance to change | |

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| |3.10.2 Managing organisational culture | | |

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| |The importance of organisational culture |Cultural models should include Handy’s task |Hofstede national cultures – video resource |

|4 |The influences on organisational culture |culture, role culture, power culture and person| |

| |The reasons for and problems of changing organisational |culture |Models of organisational culture, Handy – study note |

| |culture |Hofstede’s national cultures |

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| |3.10.3 Managing strategic implementation | | |

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| |How to implement strategy effectively |Organisational structures to include |Matrix structures – study note |

| |The value of leadership in strategic implementation |functional, product based, regional and matrix | |

| |The value of communications in strategic implementation |structures | |

|6 |The importance of organisational structure in strategic |Network analysis to include understanding and |Critical cocktails – network analysis |

| |implementation |interpreting network diagrams, amendment of | |

| |The value of network analysis in strategic implementation|network diagrams and identifying the critical |Managing a night out – network analysis |

| | |path and total float | |

| | | |The Big Breakfast – network analysis |

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| |3.10.4 Problems with strategy and why strategies fail | | |

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| |Difficulties of strategic decision making and | | |

| |implementing strategy |The effect of the divorce between ownership and|10 great companies that lost their edge – discussion article |

| |Planned v emergent strategy |control to include corporate governance | |

| |Reasons for strategic drift | |Marks and Spencer’s fashion – where did it all go wrong – discussion |

|6 |The possible effect of the divorce between ownership and | |article |

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| |Evaluating strategic performance | |What is strategic drift – discussion article |

| |The value of strategic planning | | |

| |The value of contingency planning | |Managing risk – revision presentation |

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| |Revision |Revision | |

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