BA (Hons) Business Management Extended Degree

Learn what it takes to succeed in your studies with a module focused on equipping you with key academic skills.

• Develop essential academic skills such as referencing and critical thinking
• Become confident in highly sought-after skills including research and written and oral communications

Gain an essential introduction to all major aspects of business and non-commercial organisations.

• Explore and understand key business concepts including HR, marketing, sales, operations, information systems, research and development, logistics, finance and accounting, business ethics and public sector/charity organisations
• Develop highly employable foundational knowledge preparing you for your future studies and career

Learn about core concepts in mathematics applied in a practical context, to give you all the necessary knowledge to successfully progress into Year 1 of your degree.

• Explore useful mathematical topics tailored for Computing Technology students
• Understand topics including ratio and proportion, equivalences between fractions, decimals and percentages and the use of formulae to calculate areas, volumes and perimeters of 2D and 3D shapes
• Gain an introduction to probability theory and matrices, graph theory and simple sorting and searching algorithms

Continue building your knowledge and skills to make the most of your undergraduate degree.

• Build additional knowledge and attune your skills carrying on from the relevant module from the first semester,
• Refine your communication skills
• Develop teamworking and presentation, to prepare you for your degree and future career ambitions

Further your business knowledge through a deeper understanding of business terminology, concepts and ideas.

• Build on the themes and materials from the introductory module in semester one
• Achieve a greater understanding of business development
• Explore all major aspects of typical businesses and non-commercial organisations
• Develop core business skills including management, communication and business development

Apply specific knowledge to a contemporary topic and put your learning into practice.

• Choose your topic between in(equality) or a protected characteristic
• Demonstrate your ability to make the most of the academic and subject-specific toolkit developed through your course
• Negotiate, plan and carry out an investigation into your chosen topic
• Receive support and guidance from your tutors
• Develop your e-portfolio with a log of seminar activities to show you’re ready to progress unto your chosen undergraduate degree programme

This practical module allows you to explore what it means to learn and work effectively in a digital context, creating the foundations for the necessary skillset to succeed in future modules.

• Understand how to study in a digital environment
• Develop your work-ready skills through the use of online systems
• Learn to manage and be a part of digital teams

Gain a general introduction to the business environment and the key dilemmas faced by businesses today.

• Explore the ongoing impact and use of digital technologies on how businesses are structured and operate
• Consider traditional business models and how these have been challenged
• Understand how businesses are evolving in response to digital developments

Explore fundamental financial and management accounting concepts and their application in a range of business contexts.

• Learn how to be financially aware
• Develop your ability to interpret financial data
• Practice how to construct budgets

To understand digital transformations, you need to first be familiar with core management concepts and approaches.

• Study and analyse many fundamental concepts of management and why they’re still relevant
• Explore how the rise of digitalisation in organisations is changing management competencies and demands
• Boost your employability by understanding what digital transformation means

What is data-driven decision-making, and why is it so important? Gain practice-based experience of data management and use, while understanding the concept of data-driven strategies.

• Learn about the importance of data management and security
• Explore the principles of data presentation and its business use
• Understand how to handle data with Excel and its range of descriptive and inferential statistical techniques
• Draw value and insight from the business use and application of statistics

Gain a fundamental introduction to a range of key marketing concepts and models.

• Study marketing theories to enhance your understanding of marketing processes
• Analyse how technology has challenged traditional marketing concepts and models
• Explore new approaches to marketing driven by the use of digital technology

Put contemporary project management theory into practice and explore the process of making and implementing digital choices.

• Gain experience of project appraisal, learning how to work through project implementation and post implementation review
• Practise weekly by completing simulations of a digital implementation project
• Boost your team-working skills
• Apply your knowledge to drive projects through to completion

Learn about operations and supply chain management, top skills to make you career-ready across a variety of industries.

• Explore the benefits and challenges of the increased use of digital technology
• Learn how to successfully adopt these technologies
• Gain knowledge on the impact of technologies from a range of stakeholder perspectives, including suppliers’ and customers’

High speed, high capacity, reliable and secure digital communications have opened up the possibility for greater home and remote working. Even once Covid-related restrictions were lifted in the UK, the proportion of hybrid working has risen during spring 2022 (Office for National Statistics 2022).

• Explore the challenges of setting up, managing and motivating effective virtual teams
• Learn how to create a sense of corporate identity, belonging and team spirit
• Delve into the Human Resources challenges related to remote working and how to successfully respond to these

What is Big Data and what’s its role in business and organisation? Through this module, you will learn about and develop key skills for managing and analysing Big Data.

• Learn about the concept and application of Big Data
• Explore how Big Data leads to business insight and organisational advantage
• Understand and analyse Big Data through case studies from a range of organisational contexts
• Put theory into practice and extract business insights from a ‘real’ Big Data set

Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials and Generation Z all have different values, aspirations and desires. Each generation interacts with digital technology in different ways, and if organisations wish to stay on top of the game, they need to understand the behaviours and modes of engagement with technology of different generations.

• Explore the factors leading to organisations moving more into the field of digital marketing and digital interaction with customers and potential customers
• Analyse inter-generational differences and how to react to these to drive business success
• Understand the implications of different generations for developing digital engagement strategies
• Explore organisations’ evolving digitisation of operations and service delivery

Living and working digitally brings its risks, first of all the risk of unauthorised access to data and/or denial of service attacks.

• Learn about national and supranational legislation to control the storage and use of personal data
• Understand what compliance requirements mean for organisations
• Explore the nature of the cyber security threats faced by businesses
• Learn how to develop and implement an effective cyber security strategy
• Understand information management strategies for business activity and data management as a result of GDPR

Gain a thorough introduction to emerging technologies and approaches.

• Learn more about the business challenges and opportunities new technologies bring
• Explore up to three emergent and modern technologies to put theory into practice

Develop a critical understanding of a range of approaches to strategy formulation, gaining key skills such as critical thinking, research and agile methodology.

• Explore how rapid digital development and implementation challenge traditional strategic models and approaches to strategy development
• Understand the processes involved with developing an organisation’s digital strategy
• Explore the creation of an agile development process, and how to successfully address the challenges created by digital technology

Gain specialised knowledge on core concepts in business ethics, including how digital technologies pose new challenges to current ethical business norms.

• Analyse existing frameworks of corporate responsibility and governance
• Examine and evaluate how fit these existing protocols are in the digital age
• Explore and discuss possible new models
• Boost your employability by understanding ethical practice and perspectives

Become confident in academic research and boost your employability by gaining key critical thinking, analysis and research skills.

• Identify a research topic
• Define objectives and questions to help you develop a literature review
• Develop and practise appropriate research methodologies for different forms of research
• Produce a research proposal which will inform your independent research-based dissertation

Carry out an independent piece of original research based on the proposal from your research methods module, choosing your own area of interest within digital business and business management. Some examples for dissertations are:

• Embark on a consultancy project, to advise a business on development of an effective digital strategy
• Act as a manager for a digital implementation project
• Undertake an analysis of data captured by digital systems to extract business insights and inform business activity

Get career-ready in a module all focused on enhancing your employability.

• Understand the disciplines, skills and reflective practice needed to prepare you for employment or further study
• Develop key career-focused skills, including time management and planning
• Learn how to build an effective Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Create an impressive LinkedIn profile
• Identify and plan your goals for future employment
• Understand how your programme will help you head-start your career