ANC UWL MBA/MSc to suit ever-changing business landscape

In a bid to adapt to the technologydriven world and constantly changing business landscape, ANC Postgraduate School of Business in collaboration with Claude Littner Business School of the University of West London (UWL) has now revamped its MBA/MSc programs with the input given by the academia, industry leaders and professionals in the field of business. Undisputedly, the MBA has become one of the most popular academic qualifications all around the world as it has proven to yield a rise in salary and career status helping MBA qualified graduates to reach their ultimate career goals. To keep up with the pace of the changing world, ANC has realised the need to examine the broad trends shaping business education and revitalise its MBA curricula, accordingly, to make its students effective and globally aware to have a competitive edge over the other MBA graduates. Being a responsible business school, it has consistently shown its commitment to shaping its programmes in response to marketplace needs. Thereby, its revamped MBA/MSc program focuses on meeting future essential business needs by placing greater emphasis on digital technology, collaboration, leadership, and analytical skills – thus remodeling the syllabus to represent today’ business reality without rigidly following a traditional MBA curriculum with a neatly packaged cadre of disciplines such as marketing and finance.

The revamped MBA/MSc programme is thus redesigned to give better understanding of complexities and various dynamics of the business world giving students the confidence, resilience, communication and presentation skills that are essential to their employability and future success. ANC UWL revamped MBA/MSc Programme overview Managing people: Focuses on giving students an understanding of the management and development of people within organisations. Closely aligned with the CIPD’s Professional Standards, the module also introduces students to mainstream thought on HRM/ D and develops their critical awareness of the complexity of leading, managing and developing people at work – and enables them to engage with alternative paradigms and discourses that recognise complexities and allows them to challenge the underlying assumptions associated with particular ways of thinking and practicing HRM/D.

Strategy and entrepreneurship: Provides a rigorous introduction to the concepts and frameworks used in strategic decision making and provide students with the necessary tools to undertake strategic management. The module examines the changing environment for businesses and introduces appropriate tools for analysing the opportunities and threats that are emerging. The emphasis is placed on enhancing understanding and application of concepts to develop the ability of students to appreciate the role of strategy in any management context and improve the ability of students to contribute to their organisations’ strategic development. Global marketing and digital business: Focuses on understanding the dynamics of global marketing – globalisation, environment, culture, branding, positioning, segmentation and the increasing competitive threat – the most important factors that a global company needs to manage, integrate and exploit.

This module adopts a strategic approach to the study of marketing and communication in a global context and prepares students to grasp a strong understanding of the essentials of global marketing. Business ethics in action: Focuses on business ethics providing students with a conceptual background and help them to apply models to particular business situations. The title “in action” reflects the practical orientation of this module that combines a solid theoretical foundation with accessible tools. Many case studies will be discussed to facilitate decision-making about complex situations. With this module, students can gain understanding of the business ethical dilemmas and how to address them, enabling students to perform better in their managerial roles. Business operations and intelligence:

Designed to equip modern managers with the tools necessary for the assessment of risk, the evaluation of competing strategies and to support the effective allocation of resources. These techniques will include risk analysis matrices, transforming of data and information in addition to the technology availability as a valuable tool in organisation strategy and business operations. Students will also be exposed to the ideas of how technologies help better inform decision makers. Accounting for decision makers: Focuses on the essential knowledge of the key financial management issues and concepts that are needed by successful managers, executives, directors and consultants.

This module looks at both financial (external) and management (internal) accounting, covering areas such as measuring profit or loss, valuing tangible and intangible assets, contribution accounting, break-even analysis, variance analysis and evaluation of the performance of both business units and their managers. New venture development: Includes enterprise and innovation as well as the practical modeling (CANVAS). This module challenges students by showing specific tools for use in real entrepreneurial businesses. As the course being delivered, students will have the opportunity to explore a range of issues surrounding this topic which include aspects of enterprise such as the entrepreneurial environment and factors that contribute to the birth, survival or death, and growth of new ventures MBA project including research methods: Designed to introduce essential components of postgraduate research which will help students develop skills and knowledge that will contribute to the successful completion of a dissertation. They will be introduced to social science research across managerial disciplines. This module offers multiple perspectives on researching business and management, irrespective of whichever the career in business they are engaged in. In today’s world, business professionals are required to handle a diverse range of issues, and are required to take additional roles and perform well in a wide range of functions.

It is, therefore, ANC Postgraduate School of Business believes, as MBA students, they should be well equipped to pursuing newfangled career paths, to inspire and influence a wide range of stakeholders, while demonstrating responsible leadership in the face of complex and often conflicting interests. To better prepare its postgraduate students for a technology-driven global business environment, it offer students the most attractive and the largest portfolio of British Postgraduate awards in Sri Lanka in collaboration with UWL, a world-class business university with a great reputation as the number one modern university in London – giving students the perfect platform to emerge victorious as business leaders. It has opened applications for the September 2016 intake and interested students can get further information from 0777449966.