The aim of the course is to introduce the students to planning and control systems adopted by firms of different dimensions and typologies.
These systems represent the instruments by which managers can guide the firms toward future better performances.
The systems’ aim is to realize deliberated and emerging strategies; since strategies are projected in the long period, but they are realized in the short, by means of operations, the system has to link actual actions with future perspectives.
This objective can be realized: assuring a particular and steady attention to the activities of settlement of strategic and operative objectives, attributing the consequent responsibility about them to the management, by means of a clear orientation toward the strategy implementation and an increase in the quality of knowledge and of the different mechanisms necessary to support the decision making process.

This course is designed to give students the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to manage firms. The course conjugates different perspectives: a quantitative one regarding economical and financial aspects with a qualitative one related to a strategic forma mentis and to decisional and motivational aspects. During the curse will be analyzed so methods and instruments to measure firm’s performance and to evaluate managers.

Business plan
Budgeting
Reporting

Case study