Today's successful business leaders know how to design and implement a global strategy, manage a highly diverse organization, optimize finance in a complex and volatile economy, and build a strong leadership culture. This course helps professionals expand their range and skills. Taking external and internal factors to build your company or departmental new strategies or take a cross-functional approach to existing business strategies to respond quickly to a challenging economic environment, take advantage of emerging opportunities, and put in place processes, people, and systems around the world that will deliver optimal results.

Balancing strategic insight with proven management frameworks, the course examines competitive advantage, government and economic changes, global reach, and strategic agility from the perspective of successful business leaders. You will return to your organization ready to accurately assess a situation, skillfully tackle new challenges, and identify risks worth taking.

Through case studies, classroom discussions, and small group exercises, you will examine topics such as country selection, product adaptation, political risk, managing diverse country institutions, strategic cross-border arbitrage, multinational financial management, and global leadership.

This session provides practical tools that enable you to implement and manage your dynamic strategic plan skillfully and under control. Specifically you will develop the skills and knowledge to:

• Have your team use effective strategic planning methods.
• Become a change agent, embrace and use the changes around you to strengthen your organization.
• Understand the risks and uncertainty of strategic choices.
• Position your organization for competitive success.
• Understand the core principles of organization redesign.
• Allocate resources for organisational action.

Professionals with responsibility for business management, strategy development and implementation.

• The strategic planning process – the process of translating a corporate mission into action
• Strategic Anticipation – understanding competition and identifying the most attractive strategic opportunities
• Strategic Choice – Identifying and selecting the right strategic options
• Action Plan and Review - executing a plan which will lead to the fulfillment of your company’s mission
• Governance – communicating, implementing and monitoring progress