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How to frame a business case
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This free course, How to frame a business case, looks at reading strategies which help you to frame a business case. In particular, you will learn how to use key business concepts to analyse a business situation.
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After studying this course, you should be able to:
- demonstrate the skills needed to read a case with an analytical framework in mind
- show a knowledge of concepts from the STEP and stakeholder frameworks
- understand output texts which are framed by these frameworks
- understand sentences and word groups
- write some business concepts in order to write a case analysis.
First Published: 09/08/2012
Updated: 03/04/2017
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Good refresher ... bit too academic for my purpose .. some of the activities did not translate well to e-learning .. however has given a useful aide memoire for future research and learning requirements.