Course Detail

 Day 1: Strategy – what is it and how to effectively create it?

1. Developing and using Strategic Thinking.
2. Vision, Mission and Strategy: the relationships between & how to create the natural flow between them.
3. Understanding your Unique Competitive Advantage & how to state it.
4. Creating a corporate culture of consistent strategic development.
5. The essence of globalisation and global strategy.

DAY 2: The Planning Process

1. How to build and manage a strategic planning team.
2. Using effective tools such as the “new” SWOT, Porter’s 5-Forces, GE, etc.
3. Strategy Matrix: understanding options and analysing business attractiveness.
4. External analysis: using the PESTLE tool to gain insight & Market analysis.
5. Determining the right strategies for the organisation.

Day 3: Driving Radical Innovation

1. Lateral thinking and Systemic innovation.
2. Leveraging the power of diversity.
3. Cultivating creativity.
4. Managing change creatively.
5. Implementing innovation.

Day 4:  Strategic Implementation

1. Effective implementation - converting planning into action.
2. Planning the implementation: Using a project management tool.
3. Setting expectations: benchmarks, hurdles, milestones.
4. Using the Deming model: Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDCA) to increase success.
5. Developing action plans that work.

Day 5: Measurement for Success

1. Separating the KPIs from everything else.
2. Organisation performance review as a baseline.
3. Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Tool of Success.
4. Using variances analysis to manage the plan.
5. Case-Study.

PLACE: Paris (FRANCE)

VENUE (TBC): NOVOTEL Paris Centre Tour Eiffel (61, Quai de Grenelle, 75015, Paris, FRANCE)

LANGUAGE: English/French