2019/2020
KAN-CCUSO1004U Sales Implementation
English Title |
Sales
Implementation |
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Language |
English |
Course ECTS |
7.5 ECTS |
Type |
Mandatory |
Level |
Full Degree Master |
Duration |
One Quarter |
Start time of the course |
Second Quarter |
Timetable |
Course schedule will be posted at
calendar.cbs.dk |
Study board |
Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business
Administration
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Course
coordinator |
- Michel Van der Borgh - Department of Marketing
(Marketing)
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Main academic
disciplines |
- Communication
- Marketing
- Strategy
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Teaching
methods |
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Last updated on
13-09-2019
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Learning objectives |
- Identify and discuss practical implications, limitations and
possibilities of various sales approaches and sales channels
- Analyze, select and apply different sales methodologies in
accordance with theories and models in regards to specific
cases
- Present a clear and coherent argument for your selection of key
theories and models and follow academic conventions in your written
presentation.
- Identify and explain differences in sales methodologies within
the transactional, relational and service-logic paradigms in
analysis of personal selling and digital online
sales
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Examination |
Sales
Implementation:
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Exam
ECTS |
7,5 |
Examination form |
Oral exam based on written product
In order to participate in the oral exam, the written product
must be handed in before the oral exam; by the set deadline. The
grade is based on an overall assessment of the written product and
the individual oral performance. |
Individual or group exam |
Individual oral exam based on written group
product |
Number of people in the group |
2-3 |
Size of written product |
Max. 15 pages |
Assignment type |
Case based assignment |
Duration |
Written product to be submitted on specified date and
time.
15 min. per student, including examiners' discussion of grade,
and informing plus explaining the grade |
Grading scale |
7-point grading scale |
Examiner(s) |
Internal examiner and external examiner |
Exam period |
Winter |
Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
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Description of the exam
procedure
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Course content, structure and pedagogical
approach |
By combining the strategic understanding of sales roles and its
organization with knowledge of how to lead and manage dynamic sales
forces to become more productive in an increasingly more complex,
uncertain, volatile and diverse environment, you will learn how to
choose the optimal selling behavior that effectively transforms and
enhances sales negotiations (including persuasion skills) into
actual sales. The course will address both personal selling and
selling through online channels, and will introduce elements of new
technological advances in sales like VR and AI.Through hands-on
experiences with real sales cases you will learn how sales roles
often differ by customer segments, selling processes and purchase
motives. This knowledge will allow you to transform sales
strategies into implementation plans that contribute to business
performance.
Content
The course will enable you to understand the relationship between
business strategy and sales, and how to convert strategic plans for
sales into actual selling behavior on different levels of an
organization. The focus of the course will be implementation of
strategic sales throughout an organization. You will get an
understanding of sales methods and selling behavior in relation to
specific markets and strategies. The course will focus on both
theoretical and analytical abilities as well as practical skills in
sales.
Course progression
Sales Implementation is a foundation course in the study
program.
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Description of the teaching methods |
Students will be working with a case company
throughout the course. Before each offline session, students are
asked to read the theory, to prepare key ideas about how to apply
the theories of that session to their case as well as questions
they want to discuss in class. The offline class session consists
of a theoretical plenum discussion (students receive general
feedback on theoretical questions in the plenum) and group work
sessions (the teacher walks from group to group and provides
feedback on the group's intended application of theories to
their case company). |
Feedback during the teaching period |
Students will be quizzed online and feedback will
be an integral part of the classroom teachings. |
Student workload |
Teaching |
33 hours |
Preparation |
123 hours |
Exam |
50 hours |
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Last updated on
13-09-2019