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Commercial awareness
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This short course encourages you to look across your organisation, at your place within it and the value you create. It considers how getting different perspectives and widening existing ones within your organisation can enhance commercial awareness.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- articulate what an organisation exists to do: the value it creates
- appreciate a personal position within the organisation and how others relate to it
- relate the concept of a value chain to a personal working context, whilst acknowledging much more complex interrelationships within the organisation.
First Published: 18/05/2016
Updated: 17/09/2018
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This course made me realize how individual contributions play a vital role in an organization’s overall success and value creation. Each person brings unique skills, knowledge, and perspectives that shape the organization’s internal operations and external performance. From a commercial awareness perspective, this understanding is crucial because it helps individuals recognize how their roles connect to the larger business environment like how their work influences profitability, competitiveness, and customer satisfaction.
Even if two companies operate within the same industry and share similar products, systems, or marketing strategies, the true differentiator often lies in their people. Organizations that foster employees who are commercially aware, meaning they understand how their daily actions affect the business, its goals, and its market standing... are more likely to succeed. When people know how their work contributes to the organization’s value and success, they make smarter decisions, work more efficiently, and align better with the company’s objectives.
This subtle yet powerful difference... people who think beyond their individual tasks and understand the broader commercial impact of what they do is what truly sets successful organizations apart.