Strategic Management

This Strategic Management course is designed for executives, managers, professionals and consultants who intend to learn, apply and teach on strategies in their organizations, creating competitive advantages, and developing and implementing winning strategies. 

Introduction and Course Content
Icebreaking – Walk Through Strategy
Self-Assessment – How Good A Strategist Are You

MODULE 1: Strategic Thinking
• Explore the thinking process
• The whole brain strategy model
• Language of strategy

MODULE 2: Strategic Insight
•Develop the strategic intelligence
•Strategic thinking models
•Create strategic insights into business

MODULE 3: Strategy Development
•Strategic thinking skills
•Business strategy creative thinking
•Vision, scenario planning, creative strategies

MODULE 4: Strategic Planning
•Strategic Planning and Organisation Survival
•Company Performance – the Influencing Key Factors
•Organisational Strategy Development
•Vision / Mission : Using in Different Ways

MODULE 5: Environmental Analysis
•Business Environment and Organization – Interactions
•Strategic Gap Identification through Opportunities and Threats Analysis
•Matching Organisation’s Resources and Activities to the Environment

MODULE 6: Choosing a Strategy
•Strategic Understanding of the Marketplace
Sustainable Competitive Advantage
•Maintaining and Improving Competitive Market Position
•Anticipating Environmental Changes and Reinventing Corporate Capabilities
•Developing Competencies that are not easily Imitable

MODULE 7: Key Result Areas and Key Performance Indicators
•Key Result Areas
•Key Performance Indicators
•Focusing on Results for Effectiveness
•Measure and Define Progress Towards Goals through Key Performance Indicators
•Quantifiable Key Performance Indicators

MODULE 8: Strategy Implementation
•Formulating Operational Objectives to Achieve Desired Strategy
•Structural and System Changes to Implement Strategies
•Action Plans for Strategies
•Resources and Time-Lines for Operational Objectives

MODULE 9: Strategy Project Planning
•Project Initiation and Definition Process
•Defining Planned Deliverables
•Identifying Sequencing Activities and Tasks for Project Completion
•Estimating Resource Requirement

MODULE 10: Strategy Project Planning Process
•Developing the Project Communication Structure
•Realistic Time-Lines for Completion
•Establishing Controls – Milestones and Deadlines
•Planning for Errors
•Project Implementation
•Monitoring against Planned Controls
•Monitoring for the Unexpected

MODULE 11: Strategy Project Close-out Process
•Re-Disbursement of Resources
•Completing and Archiving Project Records
•Documenting Project Successes and Issues
•Conducting Project Re-Evaluation (Post Mortem)

MODULE 12: Applied Strategy
•Creating for work application –
   - A personal strategy framework for work application
   - Strategic plan for work application
   - Strategy implementation for work application

Dr BARRAK ADAMS