London Training For Excellence Business Analysis Decision Making and Developing a Strategy London Training For Excellence
Price: USD 4,900
Instructor led live virtual classroom online. Classes may be individual or in group.

Course details

Overview
Effective strategic analysis strategic decision-making and translating those decisions into a strategy that canbe communicated and planned is essential to the future success of any organization. In this programme youwill learn how to:
Focus on core tools for strategic analysis and how to use them effectively to make strategic decisions
Develop a strategy that can guide your firm into the future.
Examine best practice models from other industries and also apply the techniques learned in theirown industries

Objective
Understand and apply a range of tools available for strategic analysis
Analyse the competitive environment and your firm's position in it
Understand the resources and competences involved in different bases of competitive advantage
Analyse the core competences and basis of competitive advantage of your firm
Understand and apply the tools available for developing strategic options
Understand the characteristics of good strategic decision making
Understand common traps involved in strategic decision making that lead to failure
Bring strategic analysis and decision making together into a strategy for your firm
Broaden strategic analysis and decision-making skills through considering a range of case examples outside your industry and applying the concepts in your own firm.

Who Should Attend
Designed for employees in all industries who are involved with the strategic planning process for their unitor the whole organization, who want to improve their strategic analysis and decision making skills.

Course Outlines
Contents:
Day 1 - Analysing the competitive environment and firm positioning

Introduction to environmental analysis tools
PESTLE Five forces analysis Industry life cycle analysis and Strategic group analysis

Identifying trends affecting an industry

Identifying the state of competition within an industry the key competitors and the key competitive positions

Identifying key success factors in an industry

Case study analysis applying these concepts

Applying these concepts to your firm

Day 2 - Analysing the resources and competences underlying competitive advantage

Introduction to organizational analysis tools
Resource auditing
Core competences Value chain analysis

Mapping how organizational resources and competences strengthen or detract from a firm's competitive position

Case analysis: Undertaking a resource competence and value chain analysis for firms in different competitive positions

Applying these concepts to your firm

Day 3 - Developing strategic options

Introduction to tools for developing strategic options
Portfolio analysis Product/Market analysis Protecting current advantage

Developing a range of strategic options

Evaluating options and making strategic choices

Ensuring that strategic options fit the competitive environment your firm's competitive position and develop sustainable competitive advantage

Case analysis

Day 4 - The strategic decision-making process

Understanding the key characteristics of effective strategic decision making

Understanding common traps in strategic decision making
hubris over-reach overly consensual

Introduction to a range of tools for improving strategic decision making
Dialectic inquiry Devil's advocacy Scenario building techniques

Analysing the strategic decision-making process in your firm business division or work group

Developing a guideline for improving decision making in your firm business division or work group

Day 5 - Pulling strategic analysis and decision-making together in a strategy

Identifying your core business proposition

Developing a vision and mission statement for your core business proposition

Identifying the key strategic priorities that your firm needs to meet

Developing strategic objectives

Updated on 05 August, 2024

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