The following content will be covered during the course:
Retail asset lifecycle
- Key elements
- Asset management
- Stakeholders
- Implications for asset performance.
The retail offer
- Physical attributes
- On-line retail impacts
- Trade area demographics
- Retailers
- Retail mix.
Course delivery
This course is delivered in intensive blocks, using a combination of lectures, workshops to apply lectured principles, guest lectures, field trips, discussion of case studies and critiques of peer presentations.
Participants will be engaged in learning through the medium of assessment tasks that draw on real world case studies and offer authentic professional engagements such as developing board briefing papers providing recommendations on investment / asset management and allocation strategies. Feedback will be provided by the teaching staff.
The course incorporates flipped learning strategies with participants taking responsibility for identifying and reading current industry commentaries to inform their participation in in-class discussions. Active learning opportunities include group discussion, class workshops and in-class participation by participants. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods in-class will promote participants ability to articulate the rationale behind their professional recommendations for investment and asset allocation decisions. During blocks, participants will work collaboratively solving problems that directly relate to the course content covered through both the online and in class material.
