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Strategic Thinking and Planning

Thinking beyond the immediate and turning direction into action. Covers what strategy actually is, analysing the external and internal position, making strategic choices and trade-offs, translating strategy into objectives and plans, and executing and adapting it over time.

Taught by Icompetent Solutions

Modules
8
Lessons
42
Duration
9h 6m
Level
Advanced
Quizzes
8 graded
Enrolled
6

Course content

8 modules · 42 lessons · 9h 6m

The scope of strategic work at advanced level, the main schools of strategic thought, a working structure for any strategy, how strategy differs outside commercial firms, and how to judge whether a strategy is any good.

  • The Scope of Strategic Work at Advanced Level
    Preview
    13 min
  • Schools of Strategy: Position, Resources and Emergence13 min
  • The Strategy Kernel: Diagnosis, Guiding Policy, Coherent Action13 min
  • Strategy in Public, Non-Profit and Internal Functions12 min
  • Judging Strategy Quality: The Signs of Bad Strategy12 min
  • Module quiz: Strategy as a discipline8 questions · pass 70%

Topics covered

Strategy
Strategic Planning
Competitive Analysis
Execution
Business Planning

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