Course Objectives

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Target Audience

All levels of managers and company personnel who are involved in charting and supporting the execution of the company plans to achieve its strategic goals and objectives.

• Developing a strategic perspective
  • The 20 mile march
  • Murphy’s law
  • What does strategy mean?
  • The three big strategic questions
  • The blind men and the elephant
  • What is the purpose of strategy?
• Strategy and the quest for competitive advantage
  • What distinguishes great companies?
  • Competitive advantage examples
  • Strive to be the industry’s low-cost provider
  • Outcompete rivals on a key differentiating feature
  • Focus on a certain market niche
  • Develop capabilities not easily imitated by rivals
  • The importance of strategy
  • Case study: Build a company
• Using strategic frameworks
  • Using frameworks for analysis
  • Frameworks for situation analysis
  • Overview of Porter’s 5 forces
  • Impact of Porter’s 5 forces
  • Creating and capturing value
  • SWOT analysis
  • The SWOT matrix
  • Linking SWOT to objectives and initiatives
  • Fundamentals of the PEDESTL framework
  • The strategy canvas
  • Innovating using the strategy canvas
• Future foresight
  • The link between strategic management and futures research
  • Futures wheel
  • Futures table
  • Weak signals
  • Black swans and wild cards
  • Futures toolkit
  • The Delphi method
  • Axes of uncertainty
  • Policy stress-testing
  • Backcasting
• Organizational strategies
  • The most important asset
  • Optimizing people processes
  • Streamlining processes
  • Optimizing information systems
  • Measuring results

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