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2019/2020  KAN-CCUSO2004U  Commercial Business Project

English Title
Commercial Business Project

Course information

Language English
Course ECTS 7.5 ECTS
Type Mandatory
Level Full Degree Master
Duration One Quarter
Start time of the course Fourth Quarter
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Study board
Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business Administration
Course coordinator
  • Torsten Ringberg - Department of Marketing (Marketing)
Main academic disciplines
  • Communication
  • Organisation
  • Strategy
Teaching methods
  • Blended learning
Last updated on 27-03-2020

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Learning objectives
  • Identify and apply key decision points in the strategic sales process from management perspective
  • Understand and argue the different choices needed to impact sales process and sales-actions respectively
  • Analyze and discuss the implications of implementation of choices on all levels of organization
  • Plan, measure and implement strategy in simulated environment to optimize sales and marketing effects. Reflect upon choices made, and argue validity of those choices.
  • Follow academic conventions in written presentation
Examination
Commercial Business Project:
Exam ECTS 7,5
Examination form Home assignment - written product
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Size of written product Max. 10 pages
Assignment type Case based assignment
Duration Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
Grading scale 7-point grading scale
Examiner(s) One internal examiner
Exam period Summer
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
Course content, structure and pedagogical approach

Through hands-on experience with real sales management cases as well as through online simulation games allowing you to see the long-term impact of your strategic sales decisions on a virtual company, you will understand when, why, and how practitioners use these different marketing and sales management principles to achieve increased business performance. Through this knowledge you will learn how to build, maintain and manage a modern sales function that integrates the marketing function and cooperates with other business functions and hereby contributes to company profitability and growth.

 

Content
The course will enable you to identify why, when and how to determine the optimal course of action in a sales and marketing process on all organizational levels. Using a combination of simulation games and cases, you will learn the impact of different strategies and actions to optimize effects of sales and marketing. The simulation game will enable you to choose from different possible actions, and evaluate the effects and implications of your choices in retrospective. Making decisions is a core capability for sales managers. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to qualify your decisions for sales performance.

Course progression Commercial Business Project is a foundation course in the study program.

Description of the teaching methods
Students will be working with a simulated 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. Between lectures the groups discuss possible plans of action and implement these into the simulation game. 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
the simulation game allows for both online and offline feedback.
Student workload
Teaching 33 hours
Preparation 123 hours
Exam 50 hours
Last updated on 27-03-2020