Strategic Thinking

The Strategic Thinking course builds and sharpens your strategic thinking mindset and muscle. The course workshops the entire strategy process with practical tools and frameworks to strengthen your communication and decision-making skills. Learning Outcomes • Describe and analyse the macro drivers impacting your industry and organisation (outside-in thinking). • Evaluate your organisation’s strategic capability and match capability to the opportunities in our marketplace. • Contribute to developing and implementing an optimal competitive strategy for growth and profitability. • Connect strategy to operations. • Assess implementation barriers facing your organisation. • Align people, systems, and processes with strategy. • Develop a tailored plan to implement strategy. • Understand what is expected of you as a leader to successfully implement and performance manage a strategy. Key Topics • Building your strategic thinking mindset • Developing your leadership purpose. • Outside In thinking • Strategic Capability • Strategic Direction Activities • Macro drivers of change • Industry dynamics • Strategy canvas and blue ocean • Opportunity identification • Capability analysis: the VRIO model • Managing the strategy and culture relationship: The cultural web tool • Innovating product and service delivery • Competitive strategy • Strategy evaluation: the Rumelt model • Strategy implementation • Strategy presentation Volume of Learning • 6 hours of self-directed learning • 10 hours online learning