Strategic Thinking and Business Planning

Description

Analysing the Strategic Environment

  • Exploring the competitive environment
  • Strategic Environment - The basics
  • Degree of turbulence in the environment
  • Analysing the general environment
  • Analysing the stages of market growth
  • Key factors for success in an industry
  • Analysing the competitive industry environment – the contribution of Porter
  • Analysing the co-operative environment
  • Analysing one or more immediate competitors in depth
  • Analysing the customer and market segmentation

 

Prescriptive Purpose Delivered through Mission, Objectives and Ethics

  • Shaping the purpose of the organisation
  • Developing a strategic vision for the future
  • Stakeholder power analysis
  • Corporate governance and the purpose of the organisation
  • Purpose shaped by ethics and corporate social responsibility
  • Developing the mission
  • Developing the objectives

 

Organisational Structure, Style and People Issues

  • Strategy before structure?
  • Building the organisation’s structure: basic principles
  • The choice of management style and culture
  • Types of organisational structure
  • Organisational structures for innovation
  • Motivation and staffing in strategy implementation

What you will learn

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:

  • The strategic environment and why it is important.
  • Key industry factors that help deliver the objectives of an organisation.
  • The main background areas to be analysed.
  • The strategic significance of market growth.
  • How the more immediate influences of an organisation are analysed.
  • How to analyse competitors.
  • The role of co-operation in environmental analysis.
  • How important the customer is.
  • How purpose is shaped by the organisation and its environment.
  • The vision your organisation has for its future.
  • The mission and objectives of your organisation.
  • The relationship between purpose and the corporate governance of an organisation.
  • The role and approach to green strategy.
  • Your organisation’s views on ethics and corporate social responsibility, and its effect on purpose.
  • The main principles involved in designing an organisation’s structure to implement its strategy.
  • The special considerations that apply when seeking innovatory strategies.
  • How managers are selected and motivated to implement strategies.

Further information

London Business Training & Consulting (LBTC)
Provider:
London Business Training & Consulting (LBTC)
Duration:
3 Days
Locations:
Dubai, London

Contact Information

London Business Training & Consulting (LBTC)

ONE LYRIC SQUARE
Hammersmith
London
W6 0NB

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