The Fundamentals Of Strategy In Action – A Dynamic Workshop To Boost Your Organization’s Profitability, Performance & Fulfillment Levels

With the global landscape changing so rapidly, the best leaders are looking beyond their day-to-day time horizons and creating strategic advantages for the future now. They realize, while every member of their team needs to be masterful in their execution, they also need to be well versed in the fundamentals of strategy so they can partake in the evolution & success of their organization.

This World Class Strategic Program will give you a…

  • Great grounding in the fundamentals of strategy
  • Solid perspective on the best strategies of the last 50 years
  • Fascinating insight to the pre-eminent strategic thinkers of our time
  • Opportunity to enhance their strategic acumen
  • Ability to significantly shape your organization’s future strategies

Highlights Of What Will Be Covered

Day 1

The Strategic Leader

  • What Is A Strategic Leader
  • What Is The Value Of Being A Strategic Leader

Anticipating Change

  • The Sigmoid Curve

SWOT Analyzing Your Organization

  • Figuring Out Your Key Strengths
  • Figuring Out Your Key Weaknesses
  • Figuring Out Your Key Opportunities
  • Figuring Out Your Key Threats

The 7S Model

  • Your Strategy
  • Your Structure
  • Your Systems
  • Your Skills
  • Your Staff
  • Your Style
  • Your Shared Values

Exploring The Future You’d Like To Create

Formulating The Organization

  • What Are Values
  • What Is A Vision
  • What Is A Mission
  • What Is The Purpose
  • What Is A Strategy
  • What Are Goals
  • What Are Milestones
  • What Are Targets
  • What Is A Plan
  • What Are Actions
  • What Are Results

Three Levels Of Clarity

  • Strategic Statements
  • Action Statements
  • Result Statements

The Balanced Scorecard – Measuring Success

Day 2

Strategic Perspectives From The Top Strategic Gurus

  • The Future
    • Alvin Toffler
  • Strategic Leadership & Management
    • Igor Ansoff
    • Tom Peters
    • Peter Drucker
  • Strategic Innovation
    • Clayton Christensen
    • Rosebeth Moss Kanter
  • Corporate Strategy
    • W.Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
    • Kenichi Ohmae
    • Michael Porter
  • Production & Constraints
    • Eliyahu Goldratt
    • W. Edward Deming
  • Organization Learning, Development & Behaviour
    • Chris Argyris
    • Peter Senge
    • Charles Handy
  • Mergers, Acquisitions & Alliances
    • P Haspeslagh and D Jemison
    • P Lorange and J Roos
  • Human Capital, Decision Making Reengineering
    • Gary S Becker
    • James G. March
    • Hammer & Champy
  • Global Strategic Solutions
    • Christopher Bartlett & Samantha Ghoshal
    • Gary Hamel
    • C K Prahalad

Day 3

Your Business Unit Strategy

  • Defining Your Business Unit Scope
  • Articulating Your Business Unit Goals
  • Identifying Your Business Unit Competitive Advantages
  • Designing The Value Constellation
  • Managing The Value Chain

The Strategic Resourcing Model

  • Your Contribution To Organizational Strategy
  • Organizing Your High Value Add
  • Organizing Your Business Necessities
  • Organizing Your Unique Value Propositions
  • Organizing Your Generic Value Propositions

RAIR Logic – Aligning Your Culture, Strategy, Leadership & Customers

  • Your Current Situation
    • Current Customer Needs
    • Current Strategy
    • Current Organization Culture
    • Current Leadership Style
  • Your Future Situation
    • Future Customer Needs
    • Future Strategy
    • Future Organization Culture
    • Future Leadership Style

Growing Your Client Base

  • Your Current Clients
  • Your Future Clients
  • Your Retention Strategy
  • Your Recruitment Strategy

Building Strategic Relationships

  • Conceptual & Technical Collaboration
  • Your Collaboration Framework
  • Creating Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances

How It Is Run

This 3-day, completely experiential, immersive and perspective shaping initiative is expertly run as a series of world class …

  • Illuminating introductions
  • Engaging Dialogues
  • Interactive games & exercises
  • Thought provoking debriefs
  • Open questions & answer sessions
  • Reflection time-outs
  • Relevant case studies
  • Enriching assignments
  • Feedback loops

… with optional follow on professional coaching to assist your organization towards greater profitability, performance and fulfillment levels.

Duration of Initiative

24 facilitator lead hours

The initiative can be delivered over …

  1. 3-Days consecutively
  2. 3-Days interspersed over time from 9am to 5pm
  3. 8, 3-hours blocks of time at your convenience

You are welcome to further talk to us about adjusting the timing to your organizations flexibility.