Overview

The Strategy Department at SPJIMR focuses on helping organisations understand, formulate and execute strategies that create and sustain enduring value in a complex and rapidly changing business environment.

The department’s distinctive strength lies in bringing together multiple perspectives on strategy, from competitive positioning and business models to corporate scope, internationalisation, technology disruption, governance and responsible business. Faculty combine academic research with extensive industry and consulting experience, creating learning experiences that connect strategic frameworks with real-world decisions.

With a strong emphasis on connecting academic rigour with real-world business challenges, the department uses research, cases, simulations and experiential learning to develop strategic thinking and decision-making capabilities among current and future business leaders.

Strategic focus areas

The Strategy department’s teaching, research and executive education are organised around the following key areas:

Competitive strategy

Understanding how firms build, sustain and renew competitive advantage in dynamic and hyper-competitive markets through strategic positioning, industry analysis, differentiation and strategic choices.

Corporate strategy and diversification

Examining how organisations make choices about growth, scope, resources and the configuration of their businesses.

Business models and strategic transformation

Exploring how organisations design, adapt and transform business models in response to changing technologies, customer expectations and competitive environments.

Digital transformation and technology strategy

Examining how technological change and digital transformation reshape industries, business models, organisational capabilities and competitive dynamics.

International and global strategy

Understanding how organisations compete and grow across markets and institutional environments, with particular attention to emerging economies.

Innovation and Blue Ocean Strategy

Exploring innovation-led growth, new market creation, strategic renewal and approaches to competing beyond conventional industry boundaries.

Sustainability, ESG and responsible strategy

Integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into strategic decision-making, value creation, risk management and long-term competitiveness.

Strategy implementation and execution

Moving beyond strategy formulation to examine how strategic intent is translated into organisational action, alignment, capabilities and measurable outcomes.

Cases and simulations

Connecting strategic concepts with real-world business execution, the department leverages faculty-developed teaching cases and interactive simulations to address contemporary leadership challenges across five core pillars: market disruptions; high-tech frontier races, digital transformation and AI disruption; sustainability, clean energy and corporate social responsibility; family business governance and corporate restructuring; crisis management and public-sector dynamics.

Family business, governance and strategic renewal

Examining the distinctive strategic and governance challenges faced by family-owned and closely held businesses.

Faculty

Curriculum

The department’s curriculum develops a strong foundation in strategic management before allowing participants to explore specialised areas such as corporate strategy, international business, competitive strategy, technology, entrepreneurship, sustainability and family business. Learning combines conceptual frameworks, cases, simulations, experiential learning, research and application to live business problems.

Theme Courses

Strategic management and corporate strategy
Fundamentals of Strategy; Strategic Management; Advanced Strategic Management; Business Policy and Strategy; Sector Strategic Analysis

Competitive strategy
Advanced Competitive Strategy; Microeconomics of Competitiveness; Blue Ocean Strategy; Digital Platforms Strategy; Learning from Strategic Failures; International Business

Strategic decision-making and simulation
Decision Analysis Simulation; Management by Doing; Strategy Unlocked: Essential Theories for Consultants; Strategic Leadership under Uncertainty

Consulting and strategic renewal
Business Consulting; Consulting in Practice; Corporate Transformation, Technology Consulting – Leading Practices

Digital transformation and innovation
Business Transformation in Digital Age; Digital Platforms Strategy; Creative Thinking for Innovation; Strategic Innovation Models

Family business strategy and entrepreneurship
Family Business (Governance; Succession; Ownership and Control); Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurial Thinking, Corporate Entrepreneurship; Promoting Women Entrepreneurship

Sustainability, business and society
Business and Society; ESG and Corporate Sustainability

Design and critical thinking
Systems and Design Thinking; Critical Thinking

Doctoral scholars and alumni





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