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Business Strategy & Planning for Managers

Develop the best strategic plans to support your company’s goals and future growth.

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The Key Issues

The business world is changing fast all the time. There are new challenges, new competitors and new situations. It can be difficult to figure out what strategy you should follow and how you should do it. The best way is to have a structured approach that is also analytical and plan out your strategy. You need to learn to use the right strategic tools at the right time.

Strategic
planning

Strategic alignment

Understanding mega patterns

Key Competences​

Strategy & finance

Business planning

Risk management

The Right Programme for You

You are a manager or business leader. You need to develop new strategies and plan for the future. This programme gives you the key strategy & planning skills you need for your role.

  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

Use the I/P (importance / performance) matrix as a competitive tool for your organization.

Explore the product/industry/life-cycle curve.

Translate big ideas into a well-executed strategic planning.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Identify strategic planning issues in order to develop a unique competitive advantage
  • Learn key analytical and conceptual approaches
  • Align your organization with your strategic planning goals by integrating strategy, objectives, metrics, and performance
  • Identify evolving strategic patterns and generate ideas
  • Incorporate customer needs into your strategic planning
  • Use a case study to examine the strategic planning process in detail
  • Recognize how the actions of customers, competitors, and your own company determine the outcomes in your markets
  • Determine the best approach to effectively implement your strategic planning

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Programme Details

The Business Strategy & Planning for Managers is a 3 day or 4 live online sessions hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. T the key strategic planning you need in your role to cope with an ever changing business world.

Ten Programme Modules

  • Determining a frame of reference for strategic planning concepts
  • Schools of thought in strategic planning
  • The evolution of strategy
  • Basic elements of strategic planning
  • Developing and managing the strategy formation process
  • Your organization’s core values
  • Creating an inspiring mission statement for your own organization
  • Identifying macro and micro factors
  • Responding to changes in the environment
  • The I/P (Importance/Performance) matrix as a competitive tool
  • How to become a high-performing organization
  • Financial elements of developing strategy
  • Data synthesis
  • SWOT analysis
  • Defining your competitive advantage
  • The product/industry/life-cycle curve
  • Understanding mega patterns
  • Creating organizational accountability
  • How to translate the grand design into well-executed strategic planning
  • Key building blocks
  • Learning the three core processes
  • Understanding resource allocation and strategy formation
  • Determining the best processes for your business
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Faculty

Bettina
Hausmann

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Bettina
Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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