PV237 Strategy and Leadership

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/2. 4 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Ing. Michala Kozinová (lecturer)
prof. RNDr. Tomáš Pitner, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Tomáš Pitner, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Supplier department: Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Prerequisites
No pre-requisities are compulsory.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Students will learn in class: - Leadership through change: * How we all go through the change curve and how leaders need to adapt to that in order to implement the change successfully. * Fun and exploratory activity that creates alignment in the team and offer insights that allow for successful implementation of the change - Fundamentals of Strategic management * Different market strategies * Product lifecycle * Different analysis and planning tools - Leadership communication * How to talk for impact * How to write concisely * How to work with assumptions and how to manage your own temper * Stakeholder management and visibility Students will learn online via global strategic simulation: - Financials of C-level decision making to deliver on investors' expectations: * Earnings per Share * Return on Equity * Stock Price - Budget allocation in company operations areas: * Product Design * Marketing * Compensation & Facilities * Corporate Citizenship * Finance & Cash Flow * Performance Projections
Learning outcomes
- Basic understanding of company financials (so that you can make competent decisions when you will be granted company shares as part of your compensation package in your real lives). - Understanding of what's behind some of the management decisions that don't necessarily make sense to you. - Insight and inspiration for becoming great leaders. - Decision making based on simulations, investors' expectations, industry reports (competitors' data), and financials for profitability and growth.
Syllabus
  • As per course objectives and outcomes.
Teaching methods
Interactive in class/online lectures based primarily on workshops, videos, discussion and brainstorming sessions with heavy involvement of the students coupled by weekly decision making rounds in the strategic game (three co-managers online outside of classroom hours). In class: Students will be provided theoretical frameworks and will be encouraged to figure out the concepts by themselves working in groups. In class: Students will be provided with case studies and discuss different approaches they would take. The teacher will provide frameworks, guidance, facilitation, and her proven approaches as part of the discussion. Videos will be provided for story-telling part + students will be presenting their own story-telling inspirational stories. The course delivers only as much theory as the graduates are likely to meet and need in the business world and students are encouraged to figure the theoretical concepts themselves wherever possible. The strategic simulation Glo-bus (glo-bus.com) will require at least 30 hours of your time outside of the classroom hours. You will be part of global competition (thousands of students from hundreds of universities world-wide). Ambitious students dedicated as much as a hundred hours to the game in the previous 6 years. My students made it to Top100 and even Top25 every year so far - with no previous experience and no financial background.
Assessment methods
- There will be ten in-class workshops in 2017 - students are expected to email the instructor their key take away they intend to use in real life, so 10 emails are mandatory, one after each class, within 24 hours. - There will be strategic simulation game - amazing learning experience, a one-off opportunity to try to manage big global company and see the cause and effect of decisions that concern marketing, operations, R&D, social responsibility, salaries, advertisement, etc. Expected outside of classroom commitment is 30 - 40 hours. Students can opt-out at the beginning of the term but once registered, they have to complete all related assignments (2 quizzes, 2 practice rounds and 6 decision rounds + final presentation) on time. - Student that opt-out will get reduced assignments but also reduced learning experience.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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