Business Skills and Management (BUS100)

BUS100 aims to provide students with key business skills, and problem discovery and solving abilities using various techniques, such as spreadsheet-driven analysis. Industry-derived case studies and a business management simulation game will be deployed to provide students with experiential learning. Through an interactive, experiential learning platform, students would learn bout the various functions of a business entity ranging from leadership, finance, accounting, analytics, operations, human resource management, marketing, e-commerce and business intelligence. The course helps students to learn about these various functions of a typical business and their interrelationships, as well as the complexities of managing a business. In addition, leadership and management concepts (such as planning, controlling, and decision-making) will be discussed. This course equips students with the necessary life skills to deal with the challenges of an ever-changing work environment. As the course remains primarily skills-oriented, it continues to comprise of only continuous assessments (i.e., OCAS).

• Introduction to Business Studies
• Introduction to Business Modeling
• Capacity Planning
• Modeling and Problem Solving in Business
• Creating Value for Customers
• Managing and Analysing the data
• Operational Planning
• Financial Analysis using Spreadsheet
• Managing People
• Analysing and Planning Human Resource
• Evaluating Performance Results
• Managing Risk and Uncertainties

• Define types of business functions, business problems and managerial decision-making processes
• Describe key performance indicators in business
• Summarize insights and make recommendations
• Apply analysis principles and spreadsheet techniques to analyse business issues
• Identify modeling strategies to deal with the changing business environment
• Analyse data for better planning