Strategy Planning, Analysis and Management

Duration: 5 days

Who Should Attend?

This course targets senior and upper-middle managers with responsibility for strategy planning, formulation, implementation and business development.

Course Overview

This course starts with the bigger picture, goes through the strategic planning process as well as practical implementation issues, and ends with contemporary monitoring and evaluation approaches. The intensive and interactive nature of the course gives a solid grounding and heightened awareness of today’s strategy issues.

Course Outline

• Appreciating Strategic Thinking
  • How relevant is your organisation?
  • How strong is your sense of mission?
  • What kind of future are you trying to create?
• Strategic Planning Insights
  • Benefits and risks of strategic planning
  • Conducting a strategic review
  • Determining strategic direction
  • Setting strategic objectives – the game plan
• Strategy Analysis
  • Cases in Strategic Management (including flawed strategies)
  • Determining a winning strategy
  • Quality-testing of a strategy
• Implementing the Strategy
  • Issues in implementing strategy
  • Using action plans
  • Communicating your strategy
• Strategy Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Differentiating between monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment
  • Strategy models and analytics
  • Emergent approaches - including participatory, real-time, and balanced scorecard

  Course Fee: £1,800

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