SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
INE4102	Strategic Management	Fall	3	0	3	6

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Assoc. Prof. AHMET BEŞKESE
Course Lecturer(s):	Assoc. Prof. AHMET BEŞKESE
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	As a capstone course, the objectives of the course are to: CO1: Provide the students with a wholistic view of both a single business and a more complicated enterprise. CO2: Define the framework how companies formulate, implement, and evaluate strategies. CO3: Develop strategic decision making skills to analyze and deal with complex business problems. CO4: Develop an understanding for integrating the concepts and techniques learned in earlier courses in management, production, information systems, economy, accounting, marketing, etc.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
I. Define general concepts related to strategic management
II. Identify the stakeholders of a company
III. Evaluate the mission and vision statements of a company
IV. Define the key environmental factors having an impact on a company
V. Analyze the opportunities and threats posed by the environment for a given company
VI. Identify the value chain of any company
VII. Explain the strengths and weaknesses of a company
VIII. Define the competitive (business-level) strategies
IX. Define the corporate-level strategies
X. Criticize the portfolio of an enterprise using BCG, McKinsey or Industry Evolution Matrices
XI. Relate the concepts and techniques learned in earlier courses in management, production, information systems, economy, accounting, marketing, etc.
XII. Analyze a strategic management case

Course Content

Strategy development process, evaluation of external and internal factors, SWOT analysis, strategy types, competitive positioning, business development, value management, actions planning, business planning.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction
2)	Main concepts in strategic management
3)	Corporate Mission, Goals, and Stakeholders
4)	Analyzing the External Environment of the Firm
5)	Analyzing the Internal Environment of the Firm
6)	Business-Level Strategy
7)	Corporate-level Strategy
8)	Tutorial, Midterm Exam
9)	Analyzing and Changing the Corporate Portfolio
10)	International Strategy
11)	Strategic Control and Corporate Governance
12)	Designing Organizational Structure
13)	Case Study Presentations
14)	Case Study Presentations and a General Overview

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Johnson, G., Whittington, R. and Scholes, K.(2012). Fundamentals of Strategy, 2nd Edtn., Prentice Hall.
References:	David, F.R. (2011). Strategic Management: Concepts, 13th Edtn., Pearson. Dess, G. G., Lumpkin, G. T., and Taylor, M. L. (2005). Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantage, 2nd Edtn., McGraw-Hill. Wheelen, T. L., Hunger, J. D. (2006). Strategic Management and Business Policy, 10th edtn., Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey, USA.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Presentation	1	% 10
Project	1	% 20
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 60
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	40
Study Hours Out of Class	14	60
Presentations / Seminar	1	2
Project	4	16
Midterms	1	2
Final	1	2
Total Workload		122

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products.
2)	Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems.
3)	Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging.
4)	Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem.
5)	Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation.
6)	Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically.
7)	Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams.
8)	Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems.
9)	Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system.
10)	Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities.
11)	Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life.
12)	Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions.
13)	Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions.