strategic planning

In Strategic Planning training course, Participants will gain an understanding of the relationships between strategy, planning and execution, and learn to develop a strategic mindset, improve analytical skills, and apply creative planning to current challenges.

There's much confusion and controversy surrounding business strategy. Where is the magic pathway to success for organization? How do we optimize our strategy to use least resources to achieve our objectives? What are the variables and how do we juggle them when so much always seems to be changing? Using case studies and drawing on the ideas and models of leaders in the field, this strategic planning course will debunk the myths and illustrate how good strategies are formed (and why bad ones remain embedded).

At the conclusion of Strategic Planning workshop, Participants will have:

  • Clear understanding of the definitions and components of strategic planning
  • Clear understanding of the role of strategic planning
  • New ability to assess and improve the company strategy
  • Improved ability to think strategically while operating and managing daily objectives
  • New ability to integrate strategic planning into normal business activity

COURSE AGENDA

  • Facts, ideas and concepts
  • Strategy and markets
  • Business realities
  • Modern Integrated strategies
  • The business strategy playing field
  • The importance of strategic thinking
  • The language of strategy - definitions and misnomers
  • The reality of the business strategy hierarchy
  • Types of thinking - linear, lateral, circular, abstract, creative
  • Strategic planning and strategic thinking
  • Why does my company not think strategically?
  • Which companies are the world's best strategists?
  • Strategic planning processes
  • Bandenburgers PARTS and lateral thinking
  • Changing strategies
  • Questioning the status quo
  • Generating new ideas
  • Pricing change
  • Risk management - the strategist's friend
  • Changing the variables of business
  • Think to act or act to think?
  • Tying strategy to profit
  • Tying strategy to activity
  • Strategy and your customers strategy
  • Information about strategy
  • Strategy, the undefined and human nature
  • Discarding more than you acquire
  • Linking today to tomorrow
  • Taking your thinking to the next level
  • Juggling strategy and today
  • The politics of strategy
  • Using strategic planning to get ahead in your organization
  • The influence of luck and how to improve your own luck
  • Conclusions