Industry and business systems
Study plans 2016-2017 - SMF1301F - 10 ECTS

Expected learning outcomes

• Strategic planning and marketorientation.
• Consciousness for the consumer behaviour, marketing and customer satisfaction.
• Knowledge about the industrial and trade business company as part of the community.
• Understand restrictions for the business activity.
• Be ware of the main information systems and processes that has to function in a production plant.
• Development of the production organisations, leadership and strategies.

Topic(s)

• To establish business, ownership, investment and finance.
• Hand made productions, idustrialisation and massproduction.
• Organisation, leadership, strategy and running operation.
• Cooperation and democracy.
• Laws.
• Competition, value philosophy, business orientation and marketing.
• Market and customer behaviour.
• Goods and service sale.
• Internationalization.
• Functions and processes as accounting, budgetting, purchasing, planning of production, logistics and sales organization.
• Ethics and social considerations.

Teaching Methods

E-learning
Mandatory assignments
Exercises
Tutoring

Teaching Methods (additional text)

•  Visiting companies.

Form(s) of Assessment

Written exam, 3 hours

Grading Scale

Alphabetical Scale, A(best) – F (fail)

External/internal examiner

• External examiner autumn 2011.
• External examiner is used periodically to evaluate contents, arrangements and the examination system.

Re-sit examination

• Ordinary resit.
• Approved exercises are valid for resit examination.

Coursework Requirements

• One compulsory exercise

Teaching Materials

• Morten Emil Berg: "Ledelse, verktøy og virkemidler", Universitetsforlaget, 3. utgave, ISBN 978-82-15-01423-4.
• Appropriate book or collection of articles in ethics.
• Set of exercises.