Galway Academy’s online Business Courses are designed for individuals who want the essential knowledge to start and/or manage a business.
Our online Business Courses include:
- Business Plan Writing
- Business Process Management
- Business Law Principles
- Entrepreneurship Skills for New Business Start-ups
These self-guided Business Courses were designed to give you flexibility, so that you can study whenever and wherever it is convenient for you, using your laptop computer, desktop computer, tablet or smartphone with Internet access.
Business Plan Writing
The purpose of the Galway Academy Business Plan Writing online course is to provide a foundational understanding of the major steps involved in the design and development of a business plan.
It is important for entrepreneurs to have a well-written business plan to guide them during each step of launching and managing their business.
A carefully-crafted business plan can help an entrepreneur to better understand the potential of his or her business, identify the market and key competitors, decrease risk, make financial forecasts, facilitate funding, develop a marketing plan, manage the business – and more!
Our Business Plan Writing self-guided online course contains 6 modules which include video components with an experienced instructor:
- Module 1: Preparation for a Business Start-up
- Module 2: General Elements of a Business Plan
- Module 3: PESTEL, Areas of Research, Understanding Markets, Core Competencies, USP, and Competitive Advantage
- Module 4: Competition, Supply Chain, Value Chain, Business Structure, Financials, and Marketing Strategies
- Module 5: SWOT Analysis, Business Model and Different Types of Demand
- Module 6: Value, Costs, Benefits, Four Ps (Product, Price, Promotion, Placement), Planning, Management, Financial, Marketing
Each module has brief multiple choice quizzes to assess your understanding of the subject matter.
At the end of our Business Plan Writing online course, you will have the chance to review the course material and when you are ready, you can take the Final Exam to test your overall knowledge of the course.
After you pass the Final Exam, you will receive a Galway Academy Certificate of Completion to indicate that you have mastered the course material.
Business Process Management
The Galway Academy Business Process Management online course provides a generic background to Business Processes (BPs) and the act of Business Process Management (BPM).
This course is about the internal processes of an organization, whether it is a company, government department, university or any other organization.
In this course, you will learn the meaning of business process; the different parts of the business process; various concepts such as quality, inputs, outputs, and bottlenecks; and the relationship between the internal business processes of an organization and its ability to interact with other organizations, like its supply chain or its distributors.
Knowledge of business process management concepts may help an individual to develop better workplace systems or enhance existing business processes or design new ones relevant to their business.
Our Business Process Management self-guided online course contains 6 modules which include video components with an experienced instructor:
- Module 1: Business Process (BP); Automation; Types of Processes; and Process Repeatability
- Module 2: Process Predictability, Structure and Sequence of Work; Organizational Processes; and Business Process Management (BPM)
- Module 3: Business Process Design, Execution and Measurement; Monitoring and Controlling Business Processes; End-to-End Business Process
- Module 4: Technology; Workflow; SIPOC; Responsibility Assignment Matrix; Life Cycle Management; and Business Process Management Design
- Module 5: BPM Modeling; BPM Execution; BPM Monitoring; BPM Optimization; and Standard Operating Procedures
- Module 6: Best Practice; Operational Intelligence; Service Oriented Architecture; Bottlenecks; Process Business Rules; Customer Satisfaction
Each module has brief multiple choice quizzes to assess your understanding of the subject matter.
At the end of our Business Process Management online course, you will have the chance to review the course material and when you are ready, you can take the Final Exam to test your overall knowledge of the course.
After you pass the Final Exam, you will receive a Galway Academy Certificate of Completion to indicate that you have mastered the course material.
Business Law Principles
The Galway Academy Business Law Principles online course covers the basic legal concepts that may be relevant to everyday business transactions and the way in which a business deals with other parties.
Information provided in this online course could be useful for entrepreneurs, managers, businesspeople, and anyone who may deal with a contract.
Our Business Law Principles self-guided online course contains 6 modules which include video components with an experienced instructor:
- Module 1: Law, Legal System, Courts, Sources of Law, Business and the Law
- Module 2: Jurisdiction, Doctrine of Precedent, Business Structures, Torts, Law and Ethics, and Contracts
- Module 3: Parties and Elements of a Contract (Offer, Acceptance, Consideration, Intention, Jurisdiction and Legality)
- Module 4: Common Law vs. Statute Law, Written and Verbal Contracts, Remedies, Condition Precedent, and State of the Offer
- Module 5: Accepting the Offer, Withdrawing the Offer, Rejecting the Offer, Lapsing the Offer, Communication of Acceptance, Counter Offer
- Module 6: Unclear Contracts, Social Agreements, Commercial Agreements, Reasonable Person Test, Letters of Comfort, Privity of Contract, Promissory Estoppel, Capacity, Express vs Implied Contract Terms, and Post-Contractual Statements
Each module has brief multiple choice quizzes to assess your understanding of the subject matter.
At the end of our Business Law Principles online course, you will have the chance to review the course material and when you are ready, you can take the Final Exam to test your overall knowledge of the course.
After you pass the Final Exam, you will receive a Galway Academy Certificate of Completion to indicate that you have mastered the course material.
Entrepreneurship Skills for New Business Start-ups
The Galway Academy Entrepreneurship Skills for New Business Start-ups online course offers a basic understanding of entrepreneurship and business start-up concepts.
In this course, you will learn about how businesses and/or business founders come up with innovative ideas and how they create business models that allow them to enter a new marketplace.
Our Entrepreneurship Skills for New Business Start-ups online course also looks at the importance of a start-up business and the different skill sets and resources needed to start a business; sources of funding and what the funder looks for; how to conduct an external analysis and internal analysis of the marketplace to be able to identify the best methods of entering the marketplace – and more!
The Galway Academy Entrepreneurship Skills for New Business Start-ups self-guided online course contains 6 modules which include video components with an experienced instructor:
- Module 1: Innovation; Invention; Entrepreneurship; and Commercialization
- Module 2: Individual, Corporate and Hybrid Invention; Diffusion; Creating New Products, Services and Processes; Incremental Innovation
- Module 3: Radical Innovation; Novelty of New Products; Imagination; Flexibility; Risk and Reward; Entrepreneurship Types; External Analysis
- Module 4: Internal Analysis; New Venture Phases; Venture Uniqueness; Capital Requirements; Sales Forecasts; Potential Growth; Feasibility
- Module 5: Competitive Advantage; Buyer Behavior; Buyer Decision Making; SWOT Analysis; and Porter’s Five Forces Model
- Module 6: Rivalry Among Firms; Threat of New Entrants; Bargaining Power of Buyers and Suppliers; Threat of Substitutes; Production; Marketing; Distribution; Service Quality; Staffing and Resourcing; Market Changes; Business Model; Business Structures; and Harvesting
Each module has brief multiple choice quizzes to assess your understanding of the subject matter.
At the end of our Entrepreneurship Skills for New Business Start-ups online course, you will have the chance to review the course material and when you are ready, you can take the Final Exam to test your overall knowledge of the course.
After you pass the Final Exam, you will receive a Galway Academy Certificate of Completion to indicate that you have mastered the course material.
