Creating and Executing Strategy
Program Details
About This Program
To truly make an impact in an organization, a leader must be able to develop and execute strategy. However, in today’s dynamic marketplace, this is not an easy task. While interacting with highly complex organizations, competitive-global markets, and demanding stakeholders, leaders are under pressure to execute strategic initiatives.
Creating and Executing Strategy explores what it takes to think and act strategically. Class begins by placing strategy development within the framework of disruption and analyzing your strategic position in the marketplace. Participants will learn how to recognize their strategic capabilities and available moves. A deep dive into strategy analytics will help participants explore strategic management tools for a wide range of business problems.
To complete their understanding, course participants will learn the steps to take to create a smart strategy and how to link this strategy to their goals. In addition, they'll learn approaches to help strategy implementation go more smoothly, including leading change, developing a supportive organizational culture, and responding to change resistance.
Audience
- Mid-level to senior leaders
- Managers responsible for strategy implementation
Key Benefits
- Learn how to develop a sound strategy linked to business goals
- Explore the sources of digital disruption in today’s contemporary business environment
- Discover how to make better corporate strategy decisions regarding vertical integration, horizontal integration, and geographic expansion
- Identify the link between culture and strategy
- Explore tools and frameworks for keeping an execution effort on track
Schedule
Strategic Issues of Disruption/Surveying Capability and Strategic Moves
Effective Strategy Execution-Leading the Execution Effort
Effective Strategy Execution - Tracking the Implementation Effort & Managing Setbacks
Faculty
Dr. Jason Chan is an Associate Professor of Information & Decision Sciences at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His work has been published in top academic journals and conferences such as Information Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly.
Jeffrey Kaufmann (Ph.D., JD) is a Senior Lecturer at the Carlson School of Management where he teaches courses on ethics and managing change. Prior to teaching at the Carlson School, Dr. Kaufmann was on the faculty at the University of Illinois and Iowa State University, and taught at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.
Aks Zaheer is Professor and Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He earned his PhD from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, an undergraduate degree in Economics from St.