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Your online learning journey

Designed to ensure you develop an effective strategy for your unit or organization.

Your online learning journey

Designed to ensure you develop an effective strategy for your unit or organization.

Unit 1: Introduction to the program, platform and participants

Understand main program themes
Create personal learning objectives
Meet all participants

Unit 2: Diagnostics – strengths and weaknesses

Conduct an internal strategic analysis
Gain varied industry, geographic and functional perspectives via group work
Consider challenges created by a technological revolution

Week 3: Diagnostics – opportunities and threats

Conduct an external strategic analysis
Use two frameworks to analyze threats and opportunities
Work in pairs on an organizational case study

Unit 4: Alternatives – performance moves

Assess alternatives for performance improvement
Understand how internal and external forces for change affect strategic moves
Focus on the future and the need for top-line or bottom-line moves

Unit 5: Alternatives – outpacing business models

Assess alternatives to understand your competitive position
Find out how to catch and outpace your competitors
Study disruptive innovation, industry evolution and incremental breakpoints

Unit 6: Alternatives – strategic innovation domains

Identify, evaluate and choose between strategic experiments
Study innovation as it relates to value delivery and value proposition
Learn how strategic innovation helps organizations outpace competitors

Unit 7: Choice – capability and resource gaps

Conduct a gap analysis
Identify how to close gaps
Select options to support strategic realization

Unit 8: Choice – smart focus

Take a holistic approach to strategic focus
Test value creation potential and execution risk
Identify which strategic initiatives should be pursued

Coaching

You will have a dedicated learning coach, making sure you receive a highly individualized learning experience.

Your professional learning coach accompanies you through your 8-week learning journey on this Strategic Thinking online course. They provide support and feedback as you apply your learning directly into your workplace, where it has an immediate impact.

Their input helps you translate your learning to your particular context. By spreading this feedback regularly throughout the program, you’ll be sure to embed your ongoing learning directly in your daily work.

Your professional learning coach interacts with you via video, in writing, and over the phone. You have calls, spread across the 8-weeks, at intervals that consolidate your learning.