Making Strategy Stick
Translating Strategic Thinking into Strategic Action
- This 2-day in-person course is designed for middle managers charged with implementing and executing against the organization’s strategy.
- The course is a carefully curated journey of discovery, hands-on learning, and real-world practice focused on gaining strategic advantage and taking action in a turbulent and unpredictable environment.
- By taking this course you will develop your powers of strategic awareness and sensemaking, strategic innovation and agility, strategic experimentation and risk management, and getting buy-in, leading change, taking action, and getting things done in turbulent environments.
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Participants who successfully complete the course will receive a Certificate in Strategy Implementation from Boston University Questrom School of Business.
Course Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to create and implement strategy when your environment is uncertain
Objective 1: Learn how to adapt your strategic approach to account for an unpredictable environment
- Assess the business environment and evaluate the drivers, relevance, and urgency of strategic opportunities and threats
- Understand turbulence and its impact on strategy design and the dynamics of strategy execution in rapidly evolving environments
- Foster strategic imagination and creativity in your organization
Objective 2: Learn how to successfully take your strategy and put it to work in your organization
- Explain the concept of strategic doing and how it differs from traditional strategic planning
- Develop a strategic action plan that emphasizes agility and adaptability
- Learn how to overcome the challenges of implementing strategy in the middle of the organization
- Design business experiments, drive innovation, and manage risk
- Engage, activate, and align key stakeholders and get buy-in up, down and across the organization
- Lead change and get things done
Session Overviews
Day 1: Sizing Things Up, and Taking Charge of the Future
- Module 1: Strategy Development in Turbulent Times
Understanding turbulence and its impact on strategy development and execution
- Module 2: Strategic Doing in Turbulent Times
Developing strategic action plans that emphasize agility and adaptability
- Module 3: Exercising Your Strategic Imagination
Shaping strategic opportunities to creates strategic advantage and assessing your ability to execute
- Module 4: Learning Fast from Strategic Experiments
Dealing with Uncertainty and exploring the unknowns
Day 2: Setting the Stage and Taking Action
- Module 1: Working with Unusual Suspects
Building your coalition, engaging and activating key stakeholders, acquiring and aligning resources
- Module 2: Getting Buy-in and Leading Change
Developing effective communication, managing stakeholders and leading continuous change
- Module 3: Managing Risk and Delivering Results
Managing implementation in real time
- Module 4: Developing Your individual Action Plan
Putting your strategic action plan into action: developing metrics, monitoring progress, and adapting your plan as necessary
Who Is This Course For?
- Middle managers in organizations of all sizes seeking to develop their strategic management abilities
- Entrepreneurs and business owners seeking to build their skills in taking their vision and turning it into action
Course Details
- 2 days in person, breakfast and lunch provided
- Held in the brand new Computing and Data Science building at Boston University
- Format incorporates plenary and small group discussions on foundational theory, concepts and readings/videos, augmented by hands-on practice and peer-to-peer learning in immersive hands-on workshops
Immerse yourself in 2 days of intensive learning at Boston University
Develop and practice new strategic skills, capabilities and competencies in the classroom
Paul McManus Award-winning Master Lecturer
Strategy and Innovation
Network with other professionals through in-class exercises and shared meals
Develop your career by learning how to make choices and create a bias for action and getting things done
Got questions about this program or Questrom Lifelong Learning?
Email lifelonglearning@bu.edu
