Business Intelligence & Data Analytics gives an introduction to research, data analytics and business intelligence (BI). BI is of high relevance to the construction and property industries considering the amount of data generated by organisations and their projects. You will learn the fundamentals of business research and information management and develop your competence to inform strategy formulation and actions.

To meet the demands of today’s competitive marketplace, enterprise processes must be sustainable, lean and customer focussed. This course looks at ways in which business processes can be analysed, redesigned, and improved thus ensuring that they are meeting the needs of customers and the enterprise. A business process is a set of related activities that jointly realise a business goal in an organisational and technical environment. These processes take place in a single organisation but may need to interact with processes in other organisations. Business Process Management (BPM) is concerned with the concepts, methods, and techniques that support the design, improvement, management, configuration, enactment, and analysis of business processes that deliver sustainable, lean and customer focused business processes. BPM includes process modelling that explicitly represents processes – once they are defined, processes can be analysed, improved, and enacted. Software in the form of business process management systems can be used to manage business process.

In this course, you will begin to learn how to teach Business Studies in secondary contexts. You will use relevant syllabus documents to develop innovative and engaging lesson plans. You will learn and practise a range of effective teaching strategies designed to engage a diversity of learners in a safe and supportive classroom environment. You will learn how to use digital and other innovative resources to assess and improve learning in the discipline and to develop language, literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum. Through self and peer evaluation you will also learn how to present yourself in a professional, supportive manner.

This course provides a detailed analysis of the latest developments in the theory and practice of strategic management. The course examines how organisations in different industries choose goals and strategically position themselves to achieve success. We focus on enhancing 'strategic thinking' skills, by critically reflecting on  issues such as shareholder value, long term vs short term horizons, and corporate social responsibility.

ECON1203 Business and Economic Statistics introduces students to the main statistical concepts and methods that are widely used in economics, finance, accounting, marketing and, more generally, in business. Emphasis is placed on applying statistical methods to draw inferences from sample data to support informed decision-making. Course topics include: descriptive statistics, probability distributions, point and interval estimation of parameters, hypothesis testing, and regression models. Students will learn to solve statistical problems in an Excel spreadsheet environment. This course provides the basis for further study of statistical and econometric methods.

Run in Beijing in conjunction with Tsinghua University Law School, this course provides an introduction to the legal system of the People's Republic of China. Emphasis is placed on modern developments in China’s commercial law, international business and economic law, and other important legal areas.