Strategic Thinking for Operational Management
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Add value to your organisation by aligning department goals with your organisation’s strategic vision and mission. In this training course, you learn to plan and implement change to meet stakeholder needs, create an innovative culture that takes advantage of the department's core competencies, and gain the leadership skills to effectively integrate strategic thinking with daily operations.
You Will Learn How To
- Leverage strategic thinking at the operational level to add value
- Maximise operational core competencies to implement organisational strategy
- Bridge the gap between organisational and operational goals
- Foster an innovative culture to overcome strategic challenges
- Develop an effective change process that satisfies stakeholder needs
Important Course Information
Requirements:
- Experience at the level of:
- Course 290, Management Skills, or
- Course 906, Management Skills for an IT Environment
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Strategy: everyone's concern
- Identifying the strategic challenges facing operational managers
- What strategy means to operational managers
- Defining Strategic Thinking
The key aspects of strategic thinking
- Distinguishing between strategic thinking and planning
- Identifying the impact of strategy on operational activity
- Aligning the organisation's vision with reality
- Creating sustainable competitive advantage
Creating value for stakeholders
- Recognising the importance of stakeholders in the strategy process
- Satisfying the needs of the stakeholders
Applying strategic-thinking tools
- Positioning yourself within the four cycles of operational effectiveness
- Decoding your environment with PESTLE
- Analysing the ecosystem with Porter's Five Forces
- Leveraging Operational Strengths
Evaluating operational capabilities
- Differentiating between organisational and operational competencies
- Taking inventory of the key strengths within your operation
- Rating competencies against strategic goals
Maximising your unique operational strengths to deliver stakeholder value
- Optimising internal processes
- Shaping opportunities by scanning the external environment
- Executing Strategy at the Operational Level
Getting real about the vision
- Qualifying the gaps between operational and organisational vision
- Establishing the foundation for realising goals
Bridging the strategic gap
- Questioning assumptions to uncover new solutions and drive new discoveries
- Managing operational strategic assets
- Rigorous planning through scenario assessment
- Quantifying the impact of proposed solutions
- Creating an Innovative Culture
Employing an innovation framework
- The importance of innovation in strategic thinking
- Promoting nonlinear thinking
- Generating solutions through value engineering
- Optimising solutions by challenging the status quo
Adapting your culture to satisfy strategic demands
- Meeting the five preconditions for an innovative culture
- Facilitating team innovation
Innovating to create competitive success
- Qualifying innovation traits
- Benchmarking objectives against actual performance
Quantifying the financial metrics
- Verifying decisions through financial analysis
- Incorporating a stakeholder perspective
- Planning for Operational Change
Weaving change into the fabric of the culture
- Being proactive in a reactive environment
- Implementing operational change through people, processes and culture
- Motivating the team to adopt the change
Constructing a change process
- Configuring your resources to encompass change
- Measuring results through balanced scorecards
- Securing Stakeholder Commitment
Communicating for buy-in
- Applying influencing techniques to overcome resistance
- Negotiating for resources using win-win approaches
Maximising your impact
- Earning support with entrepreneurial techniques
- Articulating an elevator pitch that secures commitment
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Hassle-Free Enrolment: No advance payment required to reserve your seat.
Tuition Fee due 30 days after you attend your course.
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In the Classroom — OR — Live, Online
Tuition Fee — Standard: £1695
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6 - 8 Feb
(3 Days)
2:00 PM - 9:30 PM GMT
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13 - 15 Mar
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Rockville, MD / Online (AnyWare)
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11 - 13 Sep
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Rockville, MD / Online (AnyWare)
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Tuition Fee
Course Tuition Fee Includes:
Training Hours
Standard class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Last day class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Free Course Exam – Last Day:
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Each class day:
Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest:
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
AFTERNOON START class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Last day class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Free Course Exam – Last Day:
8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Each class day:
Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest
9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Enhance Your Credentials with Professional Certification
Learning Tree's comprehensive training and exam preparation guarantees that you will gain the knowledge and confidence to achieve professional certification and advance your career.
Earn 17 PDUs
PMI, the Registered Education Provider logo, PMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP,
and PMBOK are marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
This course is approved by PMI® for 17 professional development units (PDUs). For more on the Project Management Institute and a full list of courses approved for PDUs.
Technical : 2 PDUs
Leadership : 3 PDUs
Business & Strategic : 12 PDUs