Mastering Strategy Execution

Mastering Strategy Execution in a Disruptive Environment helps you close the gaps between planning and action to ensure that all efforts remain on target. You’ll learn to review, plan, and execute strategic initiatives critical to your business and anticipate common hidden barriers strategists face during execution. At the conclusion of this program, you'll have the tools, techniques, and frameworks necessary to successfully execute strategy in today's environment.

HOW IT WORKS

You’ll gain critical insight into how organizations function and how to marry your organization’s daily activities with long-term strategic goals. Explore how human-centered design enables strategic alignment and helps identify new sources of value to keep your company moving steadily toward its goals.

Mastering Strategy Execution in a Disruptive Environment examines ways to align operational strategies with organizational objectives and ensure that initiatives get translated into action. Executives and other professionals will gain insight into how their organizations operate and how to align actions with strategic objectives. This professional development short course applies to the Strategy, Business Analytics, and Change Management Certificates.

DEFINE VALUE

Link value to strategy and execution using value maps, and uncover ways to create and capture value.

TAKE A SYSTEMS POINT OF VIEW

Develop insight into how your organization operates as a complex system and how to align your actions with strategic plans.

CREATIVITY AND VALUE USING HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN

Use human-centered design, mind maps, storyboards, and value chains to find new sources of value.

CAPABILITIES AND PROCESSES

Differentiate between capabilities and processes and how to maximize growth potential.

Professional Development Goals

• Define Value for Your Organization - Evaluate your organization's business and operating models and explore methods to align your value chains to deliver customer value.
• Act as a Catalyst for Opportunity - Understand the role of complexity in strategy execution and assess the patterns of disruptions for sustainable growth opportunities.
• Execute Strategies to Drive Outcomes - Design an execution plan that creates organizational value and meets the needs of the business unit's role in strategy execution.

STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS

You’ll gain critical insight into how organizations function and how to marry your organization’s daily activities with long-term strategic goals. Explore how human-centered design enables strategic alignment and helps identify new sources of value to keep your company moving steadily toward its goals.

DEFINE VALUE

Link value to strategy and execution using value maps, and uncover ways to create and capture value.

TAKE A SYSTEMS POINT OF VIEW

Develop insight into how your organization operates as a complex system and how to align your actions with strategic plans

CREATIVITY AND VALUE USING HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN

Use human-centered design, mind maps, storyboards, and value chains to find new sources of value.

CAPABILITIES AND PROCESSES

Differentiate between capabilities and processes and how to maximize growth potential.