Esteemed Student:
Welcome!
In the following you find information designed to help you decide whether this online class, Bus 189: Strategic Management, is right for you. Please read and think carefully about the special conditions of taking this class online. Your interest in our class is sincerely appreciated!
This is a challenging course that takes a global view on business, investigating why and how companies succeed. Students use all the knowledge acquired from prior business courses, coupled with new strategic-management concepts and techniques, to chart the future direction of different organizations. It requires the students to make objective strategic decisions as appropriate to the organization's situation and to justify them through written communications.
The course offers an integrated framework, in contrast to a functional approach, and involves the simultaneous consideration of all business functions as they interact from a global perspective. It goes beyond the textbook to see how concepts relate to the real world.
As part of the class, students working in groups will apply the course material to a specific company in the integrative framework of a term project. By the end of the term, students will have assessed the suitability of the company's current strategic position, identified and evaluated alternative strategies, to fit the evolving environment.
Please note : This is an on-line course in a virtual (electronic) classroom with all the assignments, lectures, discussions, tests taking place through written dialogues, without the need for the student to participate physically in any class meeting .
The course covers, in essence, the same material as a traditional 16-week class. On the one hand, you will accomplish the tasks at times you choose to fit your convenience; on the other hand, be prepared for considerable work. Attendance in the virtual classroom is required on at least 4 out of 7 days with about 8 to 10 hours of intensive weekly work to complete the course successfully.
College of Business core courses completed and graduating senior standing .
Our Bus 189 online class is offered as an asynchronous process. It means that learning is cut free of synchronies of both time and place that characterize traditional in-class arrangements; it allows participants freedom in choosing when and where they want to pursue their studies.
The asynchronous learning process leans heavily on a curriculum that is designed to stimulate dialogue among the students and the facilitator (instructor in the traditional class). The process utilizes work, life, and educational experiences together with supplemental contemporary readings and various ancillaries to accelerate learning. The model is heavily application based and the knowledge learned can be used in the workplace today.
Important : This environment is not based on lectures, memorization, or tests ; it does require that students take an active part in the process. Critical thinking and applying concepts to real time events is paramount .
Please note: The process nature of the course means frequent interaction through written communication among students and with the facilitator.
Very important : This online course is based on the premise that the student is in charge of allocating his efforts toward achieving the goals he set for himself. It means allocating commensurate amount of time to using resources of the course as the student deems appropriate to her situation, background, and learning models. The student's self-motivation and self-discipline are the keys to success - the facilitator cannot supply them. The facilitator's role is to make a range of relevant resources available to the student, help the student in using them effectively, and then, recognize the student's progress.
The computer technology is only a tool utilized in this process.
To be able to participate in our online course, you need to have
Before the beginning of class as scheduled (see Academic Calendar), you should visit the course discussion board (according to the instructions you are going to receive - after registering for the course - from Online Campus) an d lo g in. It is important that you orient yourself thoroughly in our class web environment before the first scheduled day of class .
Remember that there are no buildings in the online program. The classroom is in cyberspace.
Here are some basic questions to ask yourself in deciding if the online program is for you:
Look carefully at your responses. To be a good candidate for an online course, you should have answered YES to questions 1, 4, and 6 . In addition, you should have answered YES to 5 of the remaining 7 questions.
In this self-assessment, please consider the following:
Think it over again. If you do not meet the above criteria, it means nothing about your value as a person or as a student. It is only an indication that you should discuss the matter further with an enrollment counselor prior to registering for the online class because, quite possibly, you could do better in a traditional class.
Please register as soon as you can . Placing in the course is strictly limited due to its online nature.
If you are registered at least one week before the beginning of the semester , you'll receive a confirmation and access code from E-campus. With this, you can then have access to our class web site, the Syllabus, other tools, and our class e-mail facility. Please use this class e-mail to contact the instructor and confirm your presence in the class as soon as possible.
If you do not receive this information or are registered later , you must confirm your status directly to the instructor through the following:
• send an email message to: jankovich_l@ cob.sjsu.edu with
• subject: Registered 189 OL;
• your name: last, first, middle initial;
• your student ID number;
• your email address.
Students who fail to contact the instructor by the second day of instruction will be dropped from the class .
• If your application to register is not accepted because of the space limitation, you may want to try later again. Then, in case a registered student drops the course, the place will become available to the next caller and you may be the lucky one. Kindly understand that this arrangement is beyond the instructor's control and does not guarantee a place in the course; thus, you are advised to try to find a place in another section of the course in a timely manner.
J. Leslie Jankovich, D.Sc. (Applied Sciences) University of Brussels ; postgraduate studies, Columbia University ; MSEE/ME Technical University, Budapest . Line, staff, consulting work in business and industry: R&D, production, marketing of electronics, telecommunications, microwave, aerospace products, systems, services and applications. Thirteen years with ITT, appointed to Headquarters for Europe, the Middle East and Africa , responsible for new business development. Credited with management of first comsat project; also, with putting subsidiaries in new businesses. In charge of organization and operation of five-country consortium. Advisor to governments, firms, not-for-profit organizations on strategic management. Founder and head of graduate school of international management in Switzerland . Publications on management, marketing, high technology, pioneering work on web applications in higher education. 1992-93 Fulbright scholar to Hungary . Currently, Dr. Jankovich holds a SJSU appointment as professor in organization, management and international business, with Online Facilitator Certificate.
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Looking forward to seeing you in our online class!
Dr. Jankovich
