Strategic Management

Brief Description

Welcome to this course on Strategic Management, where you will learn methods and techniques to enable your business to progress and increase productivity through proactive thinking.  In today’s business world, markets and their demands change quickly and business environments need to constantly assess their strategies for success or they will simply be left behind.

Strategic management is not an optional extra, it is vital for the ongoing success and survival of companies in an ever rapidly changing business environment;

1. Do you know where your business is going?
2. Have you identified your destination?
3. Do you know how to get there?
4. Have you defined your roadmap for success?

If you have planned nothing, then you will definitely achieve it.

Strategic management is a business recipe for success and is vitally important to secure a company’s long-term survival and future prospects.

It will enable the business to create clear, well-defined plans that it can put into action to achieve its goals and to align its business activities.

 

This particular course contains the following modules

Module 1 – Strategic Management

• What is strategy?
• Why we need strategy
• The main drivers behind strategy
• The reasons for strategy
• Strategy managers

Module 2  – The 10 schools of thought and design

• Static or deliberate
• Dynamic or emergent
• Configuration school
• School attributes
• School weaknesses

Module 3  – Effective Business Planning

• Strategic planning process
• Where are we now and how did we get here
• What is our destination?
• How will we get there?
• Roadmap to success
• Gap building
• Tracking and evaluating

Outcome

This is the first course in our series of courses for Strategic Management. The other course in the series is Strategic Decision Making

All of these training courses will prove to be a valuable investment for you and will show you how you can impact your business productivity through proactive methods and techniques, in dealing with the various management issues that you will encounter in the workplace.