Course Description

COURSE OVERVIEW:

Today’s business is done in an increasingly competitive and fast-changing environment. Product life-cycles are shortening; technology is changing rapidly; markets are opening globally. Companies now need to think faster, develop quicker and often change radically if they are to achieve profitable growth and create tomorrow’s organisation out of today’s organisation.

This highly interactive training course on Strategic Thinking & Decision Making in Competitive Environments has been developed for experienced management team members who now need to step up and take new opportunities and at the same time deal with new threats from existing and emerging competitors.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

AT THE END OF THIS COURSE THE DELEGATES WOULD BE ABLE TO:

• Gain an understanding of the workings of competitive markets
• Identify the right tools and techniques to use in market analysis
• Build an effective system for acquiring and processing competitor information
• Understand the processes and the strategic significance of value migration

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Strategic Planners
• Top-level Operations Personnel
• Marketing Analysts
• Technical and Research Professionals
• Specialists in Corporate Finance

COURSE CONTENT

• Introducing a strategic mindset
• Managing internal and external relationships in strategy development
• Assessing risk in strategic decisions
• How to review and evaluate initiatives and projects
• Securing the cohesion of strategic Programmes and projects
• What is the value structure of a business?
• How and why is this changing?
• The “value chain” and “value ladder” in strategic thinking
• Financial and non-financial evaluation of the business
• Foresight – the most important activity in strategy
• The underlying concept of profitable growth
• Supply-demand chain optimization
• Participating in a virtual or extended organisation
• Case study on dealing with complexity
• Risk analysis and risk management – tools and techniques
• Setting project objectives, milestones and performance measures
• Sustaining differentiation on the basis of the total business mode

Delivery method: This will include combine lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will also understand the theoretical and practical knowledge of the topic.

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Duration: 1 week

Course Date: July 17th – 21st 2023