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- Duration / Course length: 5 Days
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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
Course Location
About London Training For Excellence
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