
Strategic managers identify threats and opportunities, analyze and report findings, and lead the organization through planning, resource allocation, and change to achieve competitive advantage.
Implement strategy by turning a chosen plan into action across functional, business, and corporate levels, shaping organization structure, culture, and control systems to achieve goals.
Explore how formal strategic planning supports better decisions, combining planned and emergent strategies, scenario forecasting, and collaborative execution across management levels to set goals, define objectives, and monitor progress.
Strategic leadership guides top executives in setting long-term direction with vision and informed decision making, empowering subordinates. It blends transactional, transformational, visionary, and collaborative styles to sustain high performance.
Identify how global forces—economic growth in emerging markets, reduced trade barriers, and cross-border networks—shape policies, competition, and business strategies through political, economic, social movements, demographic, and technological factors.
Demographic forces arise from changes in population characteristics like age distribution, fertility, mortality, and migration, shaping opportunities and threats for managers and guiding market segmentation.
Advance program in strategic management highlights embryonic strategies that build a distinctive competency to gain a competitive advantage, attract customers, and grow market share in early industries.
Explore maturity strategies within the product life cycle, focusing on differentiating offerings, pricing, brand, and innovation to defend market share as growth slows and saturation occurs.
Capture first mover advantages by being first to market, setting standards, gaining market share, and building brand recognition and loyalty, while leveraging the learning curve, technological leadership, and asset pre-emption.
Explore corporate level strategy with related and unrelated diversification, illustrated by VF Corp's Timberland acquisition to gain related diversification benefits and expand its product range across global markets.
Adopt a structured R and D approach for internal new venturing, guided by exploratory research, to turn new technologies into commercial applications through strategic planning, execution, and ongoing innovation.
Description
Take the next step in your career! Whether you’re an up-and-coming professional, an experienced executive, aspiring manager, budding Professional. This course is an opportunity to sharpen your strategic management capabilities, increase your efficiency for professional growth and make a positive and lasting impact in the business or organization
With this course as your guide, you learn how to
All the basic functions and skills required Strategic management
Transform Strategic Leadership Managing the strategy making process for competitive advantage Get access to recommended templates and formats for the detail’s information related to business environment.
Learn useful case studies, understanding the Strategic Implications (Crossing the Chasm). Strategy and technology (The rise of cloud computing). Strategy in the Global Environment: The Globalization of Production and Markets with useful forms and frameworks
Invest in yourself today and reap the benefits for years to come
The Frameworks of the Course
· Engaging video lectures, case studies, assessment, downloadable resources and interactive exercises. This course is created to Learn about Strategic Management. Strategic Leadership External Analysis The identification of Opportunities and Threats. Internal Analysis; Distinctive Competencies, Competitive Advantage, and Profitability. Building competitive advantage through business level strategy (Zynga Finds a New Strategy to Compete in Online Social gaming. about Strategic Implications (Crossing the Chasm). Strategy and technology (The rise of cloud computing). Strategy in the Global Environment: The Globalization of Production and Markets.
· Entering New Industries; Internal New Ventures. Entering new industries; Acquisition. Functional structure; Grouping by function. Product structure; Implementing a wide product line. Geographic structure; Expanding by location. Matrix and product team structures; Competing in fast changing high tech environments. Analyzing a case study and writing a case study analysis (What is case study analysis). Best buy Sustainable customer centricity model. Whole foods market; 2010 How to grow in an increasingly competitive market. Herman Miller; A case of Reinvention and Renewal (Background). Wells Fargo; The future of a community bank
The course includes multiple Case studies, resources like formats-templates-worksheets-reading materials, quizzes, self-assessment, film study and assignments to nurture and upgrade your Strategic Management knowledge in details.
In the first part of the course, you’ll learn the details of the in Strategic Management. Strategic Leadership Managing the strategy making process for competitive advantage. The strategy making process A MODEL OF THE STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS. External Analysis The identification of Opportunities and Threats. Internal Analysis; Distinctive Competencies, Competitive Advantage, and Profitability. Building competitive advantage through business level strategy (Zynga Finds a New Strategy to Compete in Online Social gaming.
In the middle part of the course, you’ll learn how to develop a knowledge Geographic structure; Expanding by location. Matrix and product team structures; Competing in fast changing high tech environments. Analyzing a case study and writing a case study analysis (What is case study analysis). Best buy Sustainable customer centricity model. Whole foods market; 2010 How to grow in an increasingly competitive market. Herman Miller; A case of Reinvention and Renewal (Background). Wells Fargo; The future of a community bank.
In the final part of the course, you’ll develop the knowledge related to the Is Yahoo!’s Business Model Working in 2011? CEMEX Acquisition Strategy—The Acquisition of Rinker Group. The Rise and Fall of Eastman Kodak: Will It Survive Beyond 2012? Boeing Commercial Aircraft in 2011, Nike Sweatshops and Business Ethic
1. Strategic Leadership Managing the strategy making process for competitive advantage
2. The Strategy-Making Process
3. External Analysis
4. Internal Analysis
5. Building competitive advantage through business level strategy
6. Strategic Implications
7. Strategy and technology
8. Strategy in the global environment
9. Corporate-Level Strategy: Horizontal Integration, Vertical Integration, and Strategic Outsourcing
10. Entering New Industries
11. Entering New Industries
12. Functional structure
13. Structure
14. Geographic structure
15. Matrix and product team structure
16. Analyzing a Case Study and Writing a Case Study Analysis
25 Strategic Management Industry Model and Analysis
Assignments
Downloadable Resources and Templates
1. Marketing Proposal
2. Brand Guidelines
3. Business Case
4. Decision
5. Mission and Vision
6. Project Proposal 1 and 2
7. Project Scope
8. Strategy
9. Research Scope
10. Progress Report