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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.
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Course Outline

Contents:

Day 1 - Analysing the competitive environment and firm positioning

  • 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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Business Analysis, Decision Making and Developing a Strategy

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