Creating & Executing Strategy
Program Details
About the 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.
Experience
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.
Results
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.
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Program Contact
- Email: croeckle@umn.edu
- Phone: 612-625-5412
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Who Should Take This Course & Why
- Mid-level to senior leaders
- Managers responsible for strategy implementation
- 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
Participant Perspective
Two participants of the Creating & Executing Strategy program discuss how the 3-day course enhanced their ability to develop a sound strategy and foster its implementation throughout their organizations.
Faculty Perspective
Research shows that the vast majority of strategies fail or never fully launch. In this video, Senior Lecturer Jeffrey Kaufmann provides an overview of the 3-day Creating and Executing Strategy program and how it will help participants increase the likelihood of designing and implementing successful strategies.
Schedule
Session Overview
- Disruption and the Impact on Strategy: Discover how the rapid pace of change places a premium on strong strategy.
- Strategic Issues of Disruption—Surveying Capability and Strategic Moves: How to understand your place in the market and the variety of strategic moves available to you.
- Strategic Thinking and Strategy Formulation (Part I): How learning to formulate a sound strategy and practice strategic decision-making.
Session Overview
- Strategic Thinking and Strategy Formulation (Part II): How learning to formulate a sound strategy and practice strategic decision making.
- Introduction to Effective Strategy Execution: Techniques to help you effectively lead through change.
- Effective Strategy Execution—Leading the Execution Effort: Develop a supportive organizational culture and position teams for success.
Session Overview
- Effective Strategy Execution—Dealing with Resistance: Respond to resistance and fear of change in an effective, productive manner.
- Effective Strategy Execution—Tracking the Implementation Effort and Managing Setbacks: Manage your strategy execution in the long-term and respond to new challenges.
- Active Learning Session: Discuss ways to develop key strategic initiatives using a variety of tools, frameworks, and techniques used by leading management consulting firms.
Session Overview
- Disruption and the Impact on Strategy: Discover how the rapid pace of change places a premium on strong strategy.
- Strategic Issues of Disruption—Surveying Capability and Strategic Moves: How to understand your place in the market and the variety of strategic moves available to you.
- Strategic Thinking and Strategy Formulation (Part I): How learning to formulate a sound strategy and practice strategic decision-making.
Session Overview
- Strategic Thinking and Strategy Formulation (Part II): How learning to formulate a sound strategy and practice strategic decision making.
- Introduction to Effective Strategy Execution: Techniques to help you effectively lead through change.
- Effective Strategy Execution—Leading the Execution Effort: Develop a supportive organizational culture and position teams for success.
Session Overview
- Effective Strategy Execution—Dealing with Resistance: Respond to resistance and fear of change in an effective, productive manner.
- Effective Strategy Execution—Tracking the Implementation Effort and Managing Setbacks: Manage your strategy execution in the long-term and respond to new challenges.
- Active Learning Session: Discuss ways to develop key strategic initiatives using a variety of tools, frameworks, and techniques used by leading management consulting firms.
Faculty
