Course Overview

Did you know that strategic management enables businesses to adapt to changing market conditions, identify growth opportunities, and mitigate potential risks? This statistic highlights the critical importance of strategic management expertise in today’s competitive business landscape.

Our comprehensive Advanced Strategic Management Course equips professionals with the skills needed to navigate the complexities of strategic planning and implementation, ensuring sustainable competitive advantage in an increasingly dynamic marketplace.

Why This Course Is Required?

Organizations without proper strategic management face significant challenges in today’s business environment. Leadership teams struggle with ineffective decision-making, misallocated resources, and inability to adapt to market changes. Without strategic planning, businesses fail to leverage their strengths effectively, often resulting in missed opportunities and even reputation damage from poorly managed operations.

Our Advanced Strategic Management Course addresses these challenges by providing a structured framework for creating effective strategic plans. Participants learn how to harness the power of strategic thinking, optimize resource allocation, and create efficient systems that deliver measurable results. The course bridges the knowledge gap between traditional management approaches and modern strategic techniques, enabling professionals to implement comprehensive strategies that drive organizational success.

Research shows that strategic management sets a clear direction for the organization and its personnel, clarifies the organization’s mission and vision, and helps it reach its goals. Organizations that invest in strategic management training report significantly improved decision-making, better resource allocation, and increased operational efficiency across their business functions.

Course Objectives

Upon completing this Advanced Strategic Management Course successfully, participants will be able to:

• Learn how to induce synergy into their respective organizations by encouraging networking, collaboration, participation and ultimately organizational synergy via the accumulation of strategic capital and acumen
• Discover how to collate strategic acumen in relation to ascertaining best case scenarios to implement an optimal strategy for your organization
• Compile situation specific business cases for the subsequent implementation of strategic plans
• Understand your legal obligations in terms of strategic planning, implementation and execution
• Learn how to enforce provisions encapsulated in strategic plans in the event of non-compliance
• Recognise how to spot common errors when reviewing strategic plans
• Take preventative and protective control measures to ensure maximum participation in strategic planning processes for your organization

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Training Methodology

Our training approach combines interactive learning experiences with practical applications to ensure maximum knowledge retention and skill development. The course includes:

• Lectures
• Seminars & Presentations
• Group Discussions
• Assignments
• Case Studies & Functional Exercises
• Role plays

This unique format of training is called the Do–Review–Learn–Apply Model, ensuring participants gain practical knowledge that can be immediately implemented in their professional roles.

Who Should Attend?

This Advanced Strategic Management Course would be best suited for:

• Decision-makers from management boards, owners, partners, board members, members of supervisory boards
• Mid-level to senior-level executives and associates who are responsible for strategic planning, implementation, and business development
• Executives who assess and examine strategy proposals for their plausibility
• Executives and associates of companies, divisions or business units in charge of implementing and executing strategies
• Executives, managers, specialists and consultants who lead strategy meetings, draft strategic concepts and conduct strategic analyses
• CEO’s

Organizational Benefits

Companies who nominate their employees to participate in this Advanced Strategic Management Course can benefit in the following ways:

• Review business and strategic context for your business
• Use of strategic thinking: innovation approaches
• Business Acumen and Strategy Execution
• Leadership qualities necessary to inspire, motivate and engage with Staff
• Examine the external environment affecting your company’s capability to succeed
• Build a business strategy and a complete strategy implementation map
• Assess your current organizational strategic leverage potential by evaluating the strength of engaging in a holistic strategy execution plan

According to research, strategic management provides clear direction, operational improvement, resource optimization, and competitive advantage. With strategic management, resources of all types are better planned and managed, resulting in more efficient resource utilization.

Personal Benefits

Individuals who participate in this Advanced Strategic Management Course can gain from it in the following ways:

• Improve your performance through higher efficiency and greater worker productivity by being aware of all strategic planning processes in your organization
• Engage in conversations about the benefits of employing strategic planning strategy for your corporate entity
• Focus on human factors and issues to analyse the best possible value extraction scenario
• Get an opportunity to work through hands-on exercises in detail to gain the skills needed to facilitate a mutually beneficial strategy for your organization
• Gain the skills to plan, manage, facilitate, and scribe a comprehensive strategy for your organization

Transform your strategic management skills and advance your career. Register for our comprehensive training course today!

Course Outline

MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION

• Definition
• Objectives
• Benefits
• Advantages
• Understanding your role as manager and visionary
• Establishing clear performance objectives and standards

MODULE 2: COMPONENTS OF A STRATEGY STATEMENT

• Long-term strategic direction
• Broad Policy direction
• What characterizes good strategies?
• Strategic Intent
• Mission Statement
• Features of a Mission
• Vision
• Goals and Objectives

MODULE 3: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROCESS

• Determining your current strategic position
• Understanding strategic challenges correctly
• Strategy Formulation
• Strategy Implementation
• Strategy Evaluation

MODULE 4: ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING  

• External and Internal Factors
• Forecast Development
• Factors Influencing Organizational Success
• Internal Analysis of the Environment
• Industry Environment
• National Environment
• Macro Environment

MODULE 5: STRATEGY FORMULATION vs IMPLEMENTATION

• Planning and Decision Making
• Developing Organizational Strategic Goals
• Innovative and digital business models
• Strategy Execution
• Placing Forces before action
• Managing forces during the action
• Entrepreneurial Activity
• Strategy Formulation and Effectiveness
• Strategy Implementation and Efficiency
• Strategy Formulation as Rational Process
• Strategy Implementation as an operational process
• Strategy formulation, initiative and logical skills
• Strategy Implementation, motivational and leadership traits

MODULE 6: STRATEGIC DECISIONS  

• Characteristics of Strategic Decisions
• Implications of Major Resource Propositions
• Growth based on core competencies
• Customer-centric strategic approaches
• Evaluating strategic options
• Harmonizing Organizational Resource Capabilities

MODULE 7: COMPETITOR ANALYSIS

• Competitive Advantage
• Distinctive Advantage
• Human, Social and Intellectual Capital
• Corporate Strategy
• Porter’s Five Forces Model
• Porter’s Five Forces Corporate Analysis
• Strategic Leadership
• Cross-departmental innovation

MODULE 8: IMPLEMENTING A NEW STRATEGY: CHANGE MANAGEMENT

• Interpreting strategic objectives into an execution plan
• Ensuring clear responsibility and accountability
• Incentives and controls
• Learning, feedback and adaptation

Real World Examples

The effectiveness of strategic management is well-documented across industries. One notable case study of successful strategic management is Apple Inc. Under the leadership of Steve Jobs, the company implemented a strategic management approach that focused on innovation, customer-centric product development, and global expansion. This resulted in the creation of groundbreaking products such as the iPhone and iPad, propelling Apple to become one of the most valuable companies in the world.

Additionally, Finnish grocery retail company Kesko Ltd demonstrates the power of strategic management through trust development in strategy work. By involving hundreds of employees from different positions in the strategy planning process, they achieved increased commitment to the strategy process and made strategy understanding more tangible. This approach led to innovative differentiation and competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Don’t wait to develop the strategic management skills your organization needs. Register for our comprehensive training course today and position yourself at the forefront of strategic excellence!