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Unit Synopsis
Strategic marketing decision-making and planning plays a critical role in the success of businesses, not-for-profit organisations, governments and individuals or experiences. This unit introduces the central strategic marketing concepts and techniques for achieving sustainable success, and explains how to develop and manage your marketing program in the rapidly changing, competitive environments. This unit aims to take your marketing skills to the next level by developing your strategic thinking capabilities, planning and implementing a marketing plan and your capacity to analyse and integrate marketing metrics. Today's competitive business environment requires Australian and global companies to understand the various opportunities and threats facing their business, along with a considered analysis of the organisation's internal strengths and weaknesses. This unit gives you the opportunity to apply your theoretical knowledge and creativity to a real-world strategic marketing process, developing and implementing marketing strategies that enable organisations to respond to challenging environments.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisite: Minimum completion of 18 credit points of postgraduate marketing specialisation units before attempting this unit. Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
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Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Presentation | 20% |
| 2. Research Assignment | 30% |
| 3. Workplace Project | 50% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Student evaluations
It would be appreciated if the relevancy of this unit to its associated degree(s) could be further enhanced.
The teaching staff in the future offerings of this unit will be encouraged to further refine the contents involved in the unit so that they could be more relevant to the contemporary practices or theories related to (digital) marketing.
This recommendation has been implemented.
Source: Student evaluations
It would be appreciated if the usefulness of the feedback provided by teaching/marking staff in this unit could be further enhanced.
The teaching staff in the future offerings of this unit will be encouraged to provide students assessment feedback that is constructive, easily understandable, and beneficial to students' learning.
This recommendation has been implemented.
Source: Staff self-reflection.
The designing of assessments in this unit has been based on reaching a balance of involving valuable theoretical aspects and a high level of relevancy to the real-world scenarios.
The teaching staff in the future offerings of this unit will be encouraged to continue the practice of designing assessments that integrate critical theoretical aspects and are highly relatable to real-world contexts.
In Progress
Source: Student feedback.
Positive comments about the teaching staff involved in delivering this unit.
The teaching staff in the future offerings of this unit will be encouraged to keep delivering the unit contents in an effective, supportive, and engaging manner.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Evaluate and communicate a range of strategic marketing concepts and theories and their application to business contexts
- Assess and evaluate internal environmental characteristics of organisations in relation to strengths and weaknesses; particularly production, R and D, human resources, marketing capacity, financial capacity, distribution and other resources
- Analyse and connect external environmental influences on organisations in relation to opportunities and threats; particularly competition, customers and PESTN environments
- Demonstrate a theoretical and practical capability to critically appraise the complex situation and use market data and competitive indicators to adjust marketing strategies and tactics, develop a detailed marketing plan and apply appropriate metrics.
Aligning with the Australian Business Deans Council academic standards and the accreditation criteria for the Australian Marketing Institute, this unit examines and applies the depth and breadth of the marketing knowledge gained throughout your studies. You will demonstrate your professional judgement, your ability to undertake systematic problem identification, analyse and interpret data, and develop evidence-based solutions. You will demonstrate your professional communication and your analysis and ethical decision-making skills within a real business situation.
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| 3 - Workplace Project | • | • | • | • |
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| 2 - Communication | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | |
| 4 - Research | • | • | • | |
| 5 - Self-management | • | • | • | • |
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | • | • |
| 7 - Leadership | • | • | ||
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