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Business Strategy

1 day course

Tutor:   Stuart Kirk

With the ever increasing pace of change, planning and re-planning is a critical feature of the business manager’s job.

The course focuses on formulating a departmental and organisational plan.

Course Objectives

Delegates will be able to:
  • Define the company strategy
  • Realise the benefits of formal business planning
  • Implement a strategy wheel for their business having produced one already
  • Develop and understand a company SWOT analysis
  • Know how to evaluate options
  • Discover the power of synergy
Course Outline
  • Three key questions - Where are we now? - Where do we want to be? - How do we get there?
  • A model for business planning
  • Objectives, Business and departmental - SMART - Vertical integration of objectives - Using strategy wheels
  • Forecasting future performance based on current plan
  • Identifying gaps between forecast and targets - Gap analysis
  • Internal appraisal - Swot analysis - The Product Life Cycle - Total Product Concept
  • Appraise ‘production capacity’ people - SWOT analysis - STEP
  • Identifying priorities in the light of information from stage 3, 4 and 5
  • Generate options
  • Evaluate options - Advantages and disadvantages- - Ideal solution
  • Make decisions - Synergy
  • Action plans and budgets, monitoring and control - Gantt charts - Budgets
  • Writing and presenting the plan
Who Should Attend?

Managers who are responsible for formulating business plans for all, or part, of their organisation.

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