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Strategic Planning for Organizational Success

 
Course: 252   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Formulate strategic plans to help your organization advance and grow
  • Detect the strengths, weaknesses opportunities and threats (SWOT) that drive strategy
  • Identify strategies to better position your organization for long-term competitive advantage
  • Translate strategy into action
  • Execute strategy and deliver results through people and processes
  • Establish strategic planning, monitoring and controlling mechanisms that ensure positive results

Course Benefits

Strategic planning enables an organization to shape and guide its overall business objectives. Through effective strategic planning, an organization creates a framework for developing, adapting and aligning organizational vision, mission and goals to achieve and sustain competitive advantage. In this course, you gain the knowledge needed to formulate, execute and monitor the strategic planning for your organization based on proven analytical techniques and models.

Who Should Attend

Managers, senior executives, business analysts and those involved in planning and/or implementing strategic initiatives.

Course Workshop

Participants work in small groups to apply strategic planning tools and techniques. Workshops include:
  • Determining mission, vision and core competencies
  • Identifying opportunities and threats with SWOT analysis
  • Assessing strengths and weaknesses of your internal environment
  • Formulating an effective strategy for competitive advantage
  • Conducting a gap analysis between current and needed organization characteristics
  • Crafting an action plan to implement strategy
  • Designing dashboard metrics to monitor progress

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Upcoming Dates

Nov 26 - 28, 2008
 Toronto
Mar 4 - 6, 2009
 New York
Mar 11 - 13, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Apr 1 - 3, 2009
 Toronto
Apr 15 - 17, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Jul 22 - 24, 2009
 Toronto
Jul 29 - 31, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)

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Strategic Planning for Organizational Success

 
Course: 252   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course 252 Content
 

Fundamentals of Strategic Planning

The need for strategic planning

  • Benefits of strategic planning
  • Defining the strategic planning steps

Defining components of a strategic plan

  • The "Who" and "What" of a strategic plan
  • Communicating and implementing the strategy

Addressing your organization's mission and vision

  • Identifying your organization's core competencies
  • Differentiating your organization in the marketplace

Detecting Opportunities and Threats

Operating in micro and macro environments

  • Analyzing how competitive and other environmental factors shape strategy
  • Identifying the key activities in the value chain

Assessing external forces

  • Analyzing your operating and external environment
  • Initiating a SWOT analysis

Recognizing Strengths and Weaknesses

Applying a resource-based view analysis

  • Mapping your internal value chain
  • Identifying competitive differentiators
  • Evaluating culture, human resources, skills, processes and structure

Auditing internal capabilities

  • Profiling and benchmarking capabilities
  • Identifying strengths by function
  • Recognizing vulnerabilities
  • Expanding the SWOT analysis

Identifying Strategic Options

Evaluating factors for choosing strategy

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

Selecting appropriate strategic models

  • Identifying sources of competitive advantage
  • Implications of mergers and acquisitions
  • Leveraging the power of expansion strategies
  • Pursuing global strategies for sourcing, operations and marketing

Formulating Your Strategic Plan

Assessing the feasibility of alternatives

  • Analyzing and evaluating the options
  • Ensuring participation and buy-in
  • Satisfying stakeholder requirements

Conducting gap analysis

  • Assessing organization characteristics relevant to strategy execution
  • Determining gaps between current and needed characteristics
  • Closing the gaps through targeted practice

Linking strategy to actions

  • Responsibilities of strategic plan formulation
  • Designing the operating unit plan
  • Establishing appropriate milestones
  • Managing culture, human resources, skills, processes and structure for strategy execution
  • Initiating programs and projects from strategy

Executing Your Strategy for Success

Establishing effective communication mechanisms

  • Aligning culture to strategic direction
  • Synchronizing skills and knowledge with needs
  • Linking rewards to performance

Maximizing results with applied processes

  • Connecting people and their skills to the execution of strategy
  • Establishing and maintaining communications
  • Designing effective information systems
  • Organizing a structure to execute strategy
  • Shaping your organization's culture

Monitoring and Controlling Implementation

Establishing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • Setting up metrics to measure performance
  • Monitoring progress with dashboards
  • Dashboards for visual presentation of KPIs to help decision makers take action
  • Sensing and responding to change

Dimensions of strategic control

  • Detecting changes in assumptions
  • Coping with a dynamic environment
  • Adjusting for unanticipated events
 
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Strategic Planning for Organizational Success Tuition

 
Course: 252   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,390 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,350 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,700 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,155 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,124 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,670 per course
  • Savings as much as 40%
  • Only $5,000
Premium Pass
  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,700 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
10-Day Pass
  • A NEW way to save on training
  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Only $4,500
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,200 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $305 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

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