This covers the specification’s seventh subject area and corresponds to section 3.7: ‘Strategic Planning and Strategic Decisions’. It includes: Corporate objectives and strategy; Analysing strengths and weaknesses; Analysing the external and internal environment; and Analysing strategic options.

This covers the specification’s eighth and ninth subject areas. These correspond to section 3.8: ‘Choosing a Strategic Direction’ and section 3.9: ‘Strategic Methods: how to pursue strategies’.

This covers the specification’s tenth subject area and corresponds to section 3.10: ‘Managing Strategic Change’. It includes: Managing Change; Organisational Culture; Implementation strategy; and Strategic Failure.

This podcast covers the first subject area in the specification: ‘What is business?’

We discuss our second subject area ‘Managers, Leadership and decision making’.

We cover ideas for delivering our third subject area, ‘Decision making to improve marketing performance’.

This podcast looks at setting operational objectives; increasing efficiency and productivity; and managing inventory and supply chains.

We'll talk you through our fifth subject area, ‘Decision making to improve financial performance’.

This covers the specification's sixth subject area, ‘Decision making to improve human resource performance’. It includes: setting HR objectives; Analysing HR performance and more.