BMC 205 - Business Management
66502
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UCalgary Continuing Education
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Course Description
Gain an overview of business management and the different facets and functions of business. Expand your understanding of the Canadian business environment and managing the modern enterprise in an ever-changing global economy.
Course Details
- Appreciate and anticipate the breadth and depth of the challenges and opportunities of the external environment that affect Canadian businesses.
- Critically examine the moral and ethical responsibilities that concern businesses in the Canadian and international community.
- Assess the factors that are used in optimizing organizational design, defining the appropriate legal form of business.
- Examine business processes, identify the essential elements that need to be controlled, and define systems through which to measure them.
- Systematically apply the process of planning that an organization goes through, over both short and long term cycles, and from strategic through core operational aspects.
- Recognize the roles of marketing in achieving organizational goals.
- Analyze the way business processes flow and interact across any multi-faceted organization, and to explore ways of measuring and improving productivity in these processes.
- Examine the way in which financial information is prepared and how financial information and non-financial measures combine to reflect the operating effectiveness of a business.
- Think judiciously and systemically in making business decisions, and anticipate their effects on the financial and other stakeholders of an organization.
Applies Towards the Following Program(s)
- Occupational Health and Safety Diploma : Core Courses
- Certificate in Professional Management specializing in Construction Management : Core Courses
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I completed my Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering from Universidad Regiomontana, Monterrey, Mexico in 1982; completed a MBA from St. Edward’s University in 1985 and initiated my professional career in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela as Planning and Scheduling Engineer in Project Controls organization in 1986. I had occupied positions as Project Engineer, Turnover Coordinator, Maintenance Coordinator, Site Project Control Manager, planner, scheduler leading teams for over 30+ years of combined experience, impacting the performance of organizations through expert alignment of technical – administrative resources in Project Management Team (PMT) environment, for Oil industry producers and EPC contractors. Using best practices in project management; also succeeding in cross-functional settings, matrix organizations, joint ventures; embracing challenges/changes and serving as an instrumental role in optimizing processes. After 20 years working in my native Venezuela; arrived to Fort McMurray, Canada in 2006 and continue developing my career in major projects and maintenance organizations for the last 11 years.
