Strategic Thinking

Course details

You have created an exciting vision for your organization but you now have to make this reality. Like any good film you must have a strong plot and be able to focus clearly on defining your ideal outcome - your happy ending! This course will help you, not only, to break down key issues in to their component parts, but also to develop that powerful business plot with the imagination and innovative flair of a great film director.

Course Outcomes:

Delegates will leave the program understanding the importance of defining a mission, vision and goals. They will have focused on the criteria that will help them make their vision reality; and they will be able to identify the links between high-level strategy and the daily tasks and choices made in pursuit of their ideal outcome.

Course Outcomes:

• What is Strategic Thinking & how can it help the Organization?
• Setting Missions, Visions and Goals
• Preparing a Business Plan
• Managing change within the Organization
• Making the most of Creativity in the workplace
• Identifying & utilizing Driving Forces within the business
• Understanding the current marketplace Techniques for exploring your current position (including using the GE Grid, SWOT and Gap analysis, Porter’s Five Forces etc)
• Implementing your good ideas – what are the issues?
• Has it been worthwhile? How to measure the benefits