Business Planning (5op)

Osaamistavoitteet (Opintojakso)

This business planning course focuses on the basics of business planning, how to create logical and consistent business plan for a starting SME. After completing the course the students know what are the different parts of a business plan, how the parts fit together and how to write and present it in an interesting way also from financing point of view.

After completing the course, the students will be able to:

Communicate and co-operate about business planning in English.
Find business ideas and create a business model and business strategy.
Analyse markets, customers and competitors.
Write a comprehensive, consistent business plan.

Sisältö (Opintojakso)

What is business planning all about?
How to create a business model and a business strategy?
How to plan a business from the idea to execution and finances and present it in a logical, consistent manner?
How to think in an entrepreneurial and creative manner when starting a new business?

Tenttien ja uusintatenttien ajankohdat

EXAM: December 2016 (tentatively week 48 or 49)
PRESENTATIONS: December 2016 (tentatively week 49 or 50)

Arviointimenetelmät ja arvioinnin perusteet

- Group project: Business plan 50 %
- Individual exam 50 %
- Active participation

Opiskelumuodot ja opetusmenetelmät

Connectivist learning philosophy, contact teaching, collaborative work, individual work, digital learning tools, classroom exercises

Oppimateriaalit

e-book or printed book: Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur. 2010. Business model generation: a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers.
Articles and other materials selected by the teacher.

Opiskelijan ajankäyttö ja kuormitus

135 hours altogether:
- contact teaching & virtual learning (1/3),
- individual work (1/3)
- project work (1/3).

Sisällön jaksotus

2nd period 2016

Toteutuksen valinnaiset suoritustavat

None

Harjoittelu- ja työelämäyhteistyö

Possibility to prepare a business plan for a real company and real case (depending on own activity of the students)

Kansainvälisyys

None

Lisätietoja opiskelijoille

None

Arviointikriteerit - hylätty (0) (Ei käytössä, kts Opintojakson Arviointikriteerit ylempänä)

Fails to complete any of the required assignments.

Arviointikriteerit - tyydyttävä (1-2) (Ei käytössä, kts Opintojakson Arviointikriteerit ylempänä)

Student can communicate and co-operate about business planning in English.
He/she understands the basics of business planning and how to build a business model, verified by the exam at basic level.
The business plan contains all basic elements.

Arviointikriteerit - hyvä (3-4) (Ei käytössä, kts Opintojakson Arviointikriteerit ylempänä)

Student can communicate and co-operate about business planning in English.
He/she understands the basics of business planning and how to build a business model, verified by the exam at good level.
The business plan is comprehensive.

Arviointikriteerit - kiitettävä (5) (Ei käytössä, kts Opintojakson Arviointikriteerit ylempänä)

Student can communicate and co-operate about business planning in English.
He/she understands the basics of business planning and how to build a business model, verified by the exam at exellent level.
He/she can write a comprehensive, consistent and credible business plan.