Key Concepts

Charting a Path to Success

• Strategic Management and the nature of Strategy
• Leadership to Strategy
• Uniqueness and Differentiation
• Goals and Intent
• The definition and measurement of Success
• The unique nature of each of the key organisational resources: People, Fnancial, Intangible and Tangible

Decision Making

• Understanding the power and effect of strong decisions
• Link between our prejudice and strategic options
• How organisations make decisions
• Simplicity and complexity

The Personal Nature of Strategy

• Conquering the personal barriers to strong decisions
• Overcoming the passive and subtle influences on our thinking
• Courage and Decision Making

Strategy and the Organisation

• Understanding the tremendous capability of people
• Understanding what is “right to do” and what is “good to do”
• Ethics, Values and the boundaries on operation
• The reactive and proactive organisation
• Communicating your strategy to the organisation
• Developing the right culture

Evaluation and Measurement

• The data driven business: Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom
• Defining what and how to measure
• The link between Measurement and Execution

Risk and Uncertainty

• Learning from failure
• The predictable nature of Risk and Uncertainty
• The strategic management of Risk
• What to do when we just don’t know

The Organisation and its environment

• Environmental Scanning
• The Market: what it is, how to manage it
• Discerning what really matters in the environment for your organisation
• Developing sustainable competitive advantage
• Selling your strategic story to others

Creating the Future

• The power of a Strategic Story
• Creating viable future scenarios to craft and lead strategic thinking
• Charting a path past the unknown