Strategic Planning and Implementation Training

Ensuring organisational capabilities are appropriate for the strategic environment

• Analysing how competitive and other environmental factors shape strategy
• Determining the impact of operating and remote environments
• Assessing the external environment for individual departments
• Identifying your customers and their needs

Assessing external forces

• Analysing your operating and external environment
• Initiating a SWOT analysis
• Prioritising opportunities and threats
• Categorising the external environment with checklists

Auditing internal capabilities

• Identifying strengths by business function
• Recognising vulnerabilities
• Expanding the SWOT analysis

Evaluating factors for choosing strategy

• Mapping strategies to product or market life cycle
• Aligning strategies with capabilities of the organisation
• Choosing strategies to meet stakeholder expectations

Selecting appropriate strategic models

• Identifying sources of competitive advantage
• Implications of growth and diversification strategies
• Global strategies for sourcing, operations and marketing

Considering strategic planning approaches

• Issue-centric, Entrepreneurial and Holistic planning
• Assessing organisational readiness

Building the plan

• Key components of a strategic plan
• Operationalising the strategic plan
• Identifying opportunities with portfolio management and gap analysis techniques

Linking strategy to actions

• Aligning strategy with six key organisational factors
• Identifying gaps between current and needed capabilities
• Establishing appropriate objectives and milestones
• Managing culture, human resources, skills, processes and structure for strategy execution
• Initiating programmes and projects for implementing strategy

Managing stakeholder expectations

• Establishing effective communication mechanisms
• Aligning culture to strategic direction
• Linking rewards to performance
• Managing the inevitable change

Maximising results with applied processes

• Connecting people to the execution of strategy
• Establishing and maintaining communications
• Designing effective information systems
• Organising to execute in line with strategy

Establishing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Setting up metrics to measure performance
• Monitoring progress with dashboards
• Deploying Balanced Scorecards

Dimensions of strategic control

• Detecting changes in assumptions
• Coping with a dynamic environment
• Adjusting for unanticipated events