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Postgraduate Modules

Postgraduate Modules

Businesss Opportunity Development

Overview

This course teaches students how to identify and evaluate potential business opportunities, as well as evaluate and create business plans for high technology ventures. By the end of the course the student, as a part of a group, will have created a business plan for a new venture.


Mode of Delivery: Face-to-Face, Online, HyFlex or Blended

What will I Learn?

At the end of this course students will be able to:

  • Discuss the purpose and benefits of a business plan
  • Identify and evaluate business opportunities
  • Identify the essential components of a business plan
  • Appraise and interpret financial statements in business plans
  • Create a business plan for high-technology venture
  • Evaluate and critique a business plan

Who Should do this Course

Important Information

Semester II, 2020/2021 (Jan 2021) postgraduate modules will be delivered ‘face-to-face’, ‘online’, ‘blended’ or ‘hyflex’. See Mode of Delivery definitions below:
 
Face-to-Face
Face-to-face teaching is an instructional method where course content is taught in person, in a physical classroom environment.
 
Online: 
Online teaching is an instructional method where students and instructors connect via technology to review lectures, submit assignments and communicate with one another. No face-to-face learning occurs since lectures, assignments and readings are delivered online.
 
Blended:
Blended teaching (also known as hybrid or mixed-mode) is an instructional method where a portion of the traditional face-to-face instruction is replaced by web-based online instruction. Therefore, classes are delivered via electronic and online media as well as traditional face-to-face teaching.
 
HyFlex:
Hybrid-Flexible (also known as HyFlex teaching) integrates in-class instruction, online synchronous video sessions, or asynchronous content delivery. The instructor will deliver the class in a regular classroom, but students may attend in person, participate in the class through video conferencing, or watch a recording of the class session.


Business plans are tools used by entrepreneurs to evaluate the viability of business opportunities and record their goals and objectives. Although having a business plan does not guarantee business success, not having one makes success less likely.

At a Glance

  • Admissions Term: 2022/ 2023 Semester II
  • Registration: Open
  • Date: TBA
  • Time: TBA
  • Duration: TBA
  • Certificate Awarded: Professional Development Certificate of Competence
  • Course Code: COMP6222
  • Capacity: 10
  • Cost: BDS $2,780 (US $1,390) {with assessment} ; BDS $2,370(US $1,182.50) {without assessment}

  • Opportunity Characteristics
  • Identification theories
  • Mini trends
  • Business plans
  • New venture creation
  • Lead users

Credit Hours:  Four (4) lecture hours, two (2) hours of group discussion, and two (2) hours of group presentations each week for seven weeks.

  • Interactive lectures
  • Case Studies
  • Group discussions
  • Group presentations