Strategy Skills Development | Questrom School of Business

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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.

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Onsite at BU’s Computing and Data Science building

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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