Business Analysis, Decision Making and Developing a Strategy

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Course Overview

Effective strategic analysis, strategic decision-making and translating those decisions into a strategy that can be communicated and planned is essential to the future success of any organization. In this programme you will learn how to:

• Focus on core tools for strategic analysis and how to use them effectively to make strategic decisions

• Develop a strategy that can guide your firm into the future.

• Examine best practice models from other industries and also apply the techniques learned in their own industries

Objective:

Understand and apply a range of tools available for strategic analysis
Analyse the competitive environment and your firm’s position in it
Understand the resources and competences involved in different bases of competitive advantage
Analyse the core competences and basis of competitive advantage of your firm
Understand and apply the tools available for developing strategic options
Understand the characteristics of good strategic decision making
Understand common traps involved in strategic decision making that lead to failure
Bring strategic analysis and decision making together into a strategy for your firm
Broaden strategic analysis and decision-making skills through considering a range of case examples outside your industry and applying the concepts in your own firm.

Course Outline

Introduction to environmental analysis tools – PESTLE, Five forces analysis, Industry life cycle analysis and Strategic group analysis
Identifying trends affecting an industry
Identifying the state of competition within an industry, the key competitors, and the key competitive positions
Identifying key success factors in an industry
Case study analysis applying these concepts
Applying these concepts to your firm

Day 2 - Analysing the resources and competences underlying competitive advantage

Introduction to organizational analysis tools – Resource auditing,
Core competences, Value chain analysis
Mapping how organizational resources and competences strengthen or detract from a firm’s competitive position
Case analysis: Undertaking a resource, competence, and value chain analysis for firms in different competitive positions
Applying these concepts to your firm

Day 3 - Developing strategic options

Introduction to tools for developing strategic options – Portfolio analysis, Product/Market analysis, Protecting current advantage
Developing a range of strategic options
Evaluating options and making strategic choices
Ensuring that strategic options fit the competitive environment, your firm’s competitive position and develop sustainable competitive advantage
Case analysis

Day 4 - The strategic decision-making process

Understanding the key characteristics of effective strategic decision making
Understanding common traps in strategic decision making – hubris, over-reach, overly consensual
Introduction to a range of tools for improving strategic decision making – Dialectic inquiry, Devil’s advocacy, Scenario building techniques
Analysing the strategic decision-making process in your firm, business division, or work group
Developing a guideline for improving decision making in your firm, business division, or work group

Day 5 - Pulling strategic analysis and decision-making together in a strategy

Identifying your core business proposition
Developing a vision and mission statement for your core business proposition
Identifying the key strategic priorities that your firm needs to meet
Developing strategic objectives

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$5,300

Duration: 5 Days

date: 23 - 27 Dec 2024

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$4,900

Duration: 5 Days

date: 06 - 10 Jan 2025

Lisbon

$5,300

Duration: 5 Days

date: 27 - 31 Jan 2025

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$5,300

Duration: 5 Days

date: 03 - 07 Mar 2025

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$4,900

Duration: 5 Days

date: 07 - 11 Apr 2025

London

$4,900

Duration: 5 Days

date: 04 - 08 Aug 2025

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$5,300

Duration: 5 Days

date: 06 - 10 Oct 2025

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$4,900

Duration: 5 Days

date: 01 - 05 Dec 2025

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Business Analysis, Decision Making and Developing a Strategy

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Duration:5 Days

date:23 - 27 Dec 2024

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