University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Value Chain Management Specialization
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Value Chain Management Specialization

Master Value Chain Analysis. Acquire critical business management competencies to create, measure, and maximize value.

Gary Hecht, Ph.D.
Ujjal Kumar Mukherjee
Hayden Noel

Instructors: Gary Hecht, Ph.D.

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Specialization - 6 course series

Managerial Accounting: Cost Behaviors, Systems, and Analysis

Course 120 hours4.7 (1,354 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Describe fundamental concepts of managerial accounting.

  • Apply the financial perspective of accounting for costs.

  • Address common "what-if" questions using cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis and apply CVP analysis in a variety of scenarios.

  • Apply activity-based costing (ABC) and recognize the influence of setting and decision characteristics on the relevance of ABC systems.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Operations Strategy
Category: Supply Chain
Category: Process Analytics
Category: Inventory

What you'll learn

  • Prepare a master budget and its key components.

  • Evaluate capital investments via a variety of measures.

  • Calculate, interpret, and investigate variances.

  • Compute and interpret financial performance measures.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Planning
Category: Marketing
Category: Marketing Plan
Category: Writing
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Marketing Mix
Category: Market Research
Category: Design and Product
Category: Communication
Category: Strategy
Category: Marketing Management
Category: Brand Management

Operations Management: Organization and Analysis

Course 313 hours4.7 (1,224 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Understand the role of operations management.

  • Relate underlying principles to operations management frameworks and techniques.

  • Synthesize information to make operations decisions in important areas.

  • Evaluate processes on different dimensions.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Six Sigma
Category: Process Control
Category: Program Management
Category: Lean Manufacturing

Operations Management: Quality and Supply Chain

Course 416 hours4.6 (1,185 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Discover, implement, and sustain process improvements in organizations.

  • Practice the use of statistics for analyzing variation in processes.

  • Understand frameworks and techniques for supply chain management.

  • Value the relationship of operations and supply chains with environmental sustainability.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Planning
Category: Marketing
Category: Marketing Strategy
Category: Probability & Statistics
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Marketing Mix
Category: Strategy
Category: Market Analysis
Category: Brand Management

Developing a Winning Marketing Strategy

Course 516 hours4.8 (1,728 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Define marketing and understand its underlying rationale.

  • Describe how marketing creates value.

  • Describe product strategy.

  • Describe the nature of branding and evaluate brand extensions.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Activity Based Costing
Category: Cost
Category: Management Accounting
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: General Accounting
Category: Problem Solving
Category: Accounting
Category: Cost Accounting

Developing a Marketing Mix for Growth

Course 613 hours4.8 (725 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • List all elements of the Marketing Mix and explain the role each element plays in creating value.

  • Evaluate the use of different Channels of Distribution by existing businesses.

  • Critique Advertising execution and create a persuasive Advertising piece.

  • Develop a Marketing Plan proposal.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cost
Category: Decision Making
Category: Leadership and Management
Category: Investment
Category: Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA)
Category: Accounting
Category: Budget Management

Instructors

Gary Hecht, Ph.D.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
9 Courses119,343 learners
Ujjal Kumar Mukherjee
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
3 Courses87,426 learners
Hayden Noel
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2 Courses62,306 learners

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