 Too many companies try to be everything to everybody. They fail to identify and sustain their competitive advantage. They waste time and money in markets that may never give them a worthwhile return on investment. And while they flounder, competitors pass them by. Executives of these companies need to think strategically.
Strategic Thinking helps you meet, head on, the challenge of building strategy. It distills and applies the latest strategic insights and approaches. It helps you accurately assess the competition in your industry. You will learn to create coherent and forceful strategies for your future and get the opportunity to apply these concepts to your own situation and planning.
It is designed specifically to broaden your perspective on how to make organizations more competitive. You will examine a variety of options for growth, including alliances, acquisitions, and internal corporate ventures.
Program Focus
• Strategy formulation and business planning
• Creating and sustaining a competitive advantage
• Strategy under uncertainty
• Options reasoning
• Corporate growth via acquisitions
• Vision and focus for service strategy
• Issues in implementing strategy
• Knowledge management
Program Outcomes
- Leverage your firm’s capabilities to the greatest competitive advantage, obtaining necessary resources through alliances, acquisitions, or internal corporate ventures.
- Develop the flexibility to tailor the planning process to the business context and the needs of individual business units.
- Enhance your ability to assess the strategic impact of the moves of your competitors, particularly those from abroad.
- Understand the importance and role of strategic intent in the development of a successful strategy.
- Realize the importance of innovation to an organization’s competitiveness
Participant Profile
Senior and upper-middle managers with responsibility for strategy formulation and implementation would be good candidates for this course. Managers just moving into planning areas will get a jump-start on the process — learning how leadership, vision, and strategy interact with one another.
Past Participants’ Titles
• Vice President, Operations
• Director, Business Development
• Director, Strategic Marketing
• Manager, Research & Development
• Strategic Planning Manager
• Supply Chain Manager
Date:
April 18-22, 2005 (Participants encouraged to arrive by April 13)
November 07-11, 2005 (Participants encouraged to arrive by November 02)
Location - Philadelphia, PA (Residential)
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Date:
August 01-05, 2005 (Participants encouraged to arrive by July 27)
Location* - San Francisco, CA
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*San Francisco program tuition is adjusted, as it does not include hotel accommodations. Preferred hotel information will be provided upon registration.
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