Strategic Thinking and Planning

Introduction: 

The basic requirements for strategy development include, among other factors:1) Extensive knowledge about the environment, market, and competitors; 2) Ability to examine this knowledge as an interactive dynamic system, and 3) The imagination and logic to choose between specific alternatives.

This Strategic Thinking, Analysis and Planning training course has been specifically designed to provide the necessary strategic tools and mapping capabilities to achieve high levels of strategic alignment and consistency relative to both the external and internal environment. In this way, strategy enables professionals to maximize internal efficiency while capturing the highest potential of opportunities in the external environment and gain organizational and personal success.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the global leading-edge thinking in strategic development
• Identify and evaluate the options and implications faced in developing a strategy
• Apply the concepts, tools, and techniques of ‘strategy’ and ‘strategic planning’
• Understand the step-by-step process and apply a strategic toolkit for each stage
• Map out possible directions using strategic tools to apply to their own specialist role in the alignment of strategic programmes and projects
• Identify “real” problems and apply decision-making principles