




Course description
MODULE 1: Target-setting and process development
The learning focuses on how to identify and analyse the company’s target structure and business processes in order to see how the organisation creates customer value in its business operations, i.e. its business model and the operational challenges facing its day-to-day activities.
MODULE 2: Design of performance management
The learning focuses on developing an understanding of how control and leadership should be shaped to make it easy for employees and managers to perform at a high level and for control and leadership to be forward-looking so the organisation can be continuously improved and developed in a given direction.
MODULE 3: Design and planning of a corporate project
The learning focuses on working independently in a group to improve the capability of an organisation through a project assignment which is a process development project. The work is done for an external client with a current operational issue to be addressed as a performance problem.
Scope:
The course covers approximately 400 hours of which approximately 100 hours are teacher-led. The remainder includes time for private study (recommended time or more) and examinations.


Examination formats
Attendance: 70% attendance in classes.
Knowledge tests: Two examinations taken in modules 1 and 2.
Grade scale: Pass (E) – Fail (F)
Individual home assignments: Two examinations based on case studies with defined facts and circumstances.
Examines modules 1 and 2.
Project work in a group: An examination taken for an external client with undefined facts and circumstances.
Examines module 3.
Grade scale: A – E
Reference framework for qualifications SeQF
This certificate is one of four that constitute the “IHM Business Executive Degree. In 2018, the examination title “IHM Business Executive Degree” was placed at the SeQF 6 level. The learning outcome is equivalent to that obtained via statutory university studies within the “Business Development” subject area. SeQF is the Swedish equivalent of the European Qualification Framework (EQF) for lifelong learning.
The framework aims to facilitate comparisons between examination titles and qualifications in different countries and between other European education systems.
The position within the SeQF is sanctioned by the Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education. IHM Business School is Sweden’s first private business school to be granted SeQF 6 level for an examination title outside the statutory education system.
