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 takin 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.
Dates
Coming Soon
Price
Coming Soon
Format
Onsite at BU’s Computing and Data Science building
Course
Participants who successfully complete the course will receive a Certificate in Strategy Implementation from Boston University Questrom School of Business.
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Your Faculty
Paul Carlile
Senior Associate Dean, Online Learning
Professor, Information Systems
Christopher Carter
Lecturer, Strategy and Innovation
Paul McManus
Master Lecturer, Strategy and Innovation
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