Strategy Management Overview
During this one-day course, the student is introduced to the concept of corporate strategy and is guided through the creation of vision and mission statements. Knowing where the organization is trying to go, the student will now conduct a corporate appraisal to determine where it is now. Knowing the start and end points of the journey, the vision is then expanded into a set of corporate goals and objectives (the critical success factors) which are realized through the work the organization does. Various strategy planning techniques, such as strategy mapping and value curves are presented, all illustrated through an engaging case study. By the end of the course, the student will see where individual projects and operations fit into the overall scheme of things and be able to relate the achievements of these pieces of work back to the targets that were originally set for them using a Balanced
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Skill Level
Short Courses -
Duration
- 1 Day
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Support
- Tutor on call
- Exam simulator
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Assessment
- 7.5
Course Description
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Develop vision / mission statements and expand them into a cogent strategy
- Associate organizational change with organizational initiatives
- Determine your organization’s status quo
- Decide on your overriding objectives and their Critical Success Factors
- Differentiate between project planning and strategic planning
- Perform Strategy Mapping Create Key Performance Indicators to track progress towards objectives
- Use a Balanced Scorecard to report progress
- Create Value Curves and use Value Innovation to identify opportunities in the marketplace
This course is ideal for someone who is planning to start a new company. This is a very hands-on course that will provide practical tools to develop comprehensive strategies that can be tracked to the work needed to realize them. No pre-requisite knowledge is assumed.
The strategy pyramid
Vision Statements
Exercise
Mission Statements
What can go wrong
Exercise
Strategy definition – what and how
Definition of Organizational Initiatives
Corporate appraisals
SWOT analysis
Nine “M”s
Position audits
PESTEL
Porter’s Five Forces
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To keep your certification and keep you relevant and competitive for employer demanded skills,you’ll need to participate in professional development activities, and earn and report professional development units (PDUs.) The goal is to ensure that your certified competencies stay relevant and up to date.
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Hear what our students say...
As a small and rapidly growing company, the Velopi team helped our Senior Management team introduce a common terminology, develop the company’s project management model and processes and apply it to our resource management and planning of Client projects every day so that, as a Company, we succeed in delivering quality projects, on time and on budget to our Clients.”
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Meet the Team
Managing Director & Founder
Seamus Collins has led Velopi since he founded the company in 2007. He has developed Velopi into the internationally recognised specialist in Project Management that’s helped hundreds of companies accelerate their growth.
Senior Training Consultant
An excellent communicator, John has a proven track record of delivering training and analysing training needs of project management training and consultancy to a range of companies across the IT, Telecommunications, Finance and Life Science sectors.
Training Consultant
A learning and development professional for the past 10 years, consulting with a variety of well-known and successful organisations, Michael holds two Masters degrees, MA Learning & Development and MSc Project Management.