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Day 1:

 The Construct of Strategy:

• The velocity of change

• The relevance of relevance

• Leadership without strategy = irrelevance

• The anatomy of organisation

• Sustainability & competitive advantage

• The paradox of strategic thinking

• From strategic thinking to positioning to action

Creating the Strategy 'Black Box':

• Organisational Black Box theory

• Defining inputs

• Defining outputs

• Process theory

• The master scorecard system

• Direct vs. Inverse organisational relationships

• Defining behaviour; the anatomy of collective mind – Organisational Paradigm

• The Black Box and organisational values

 Understanding Mission as a Process:

• Purpose vs. Intent

• Translating the words of mission to the process of mission

• Testing dependency

• Testing priority (importance and resource consumption)

• Developing the master scorecard

 Process Analysis:

• Translating mission to core organisational processes

• Process analysis methodology

• Using Weakness to adjust processes

• Expanding the scorecard

• Loading the Black Box

Day 2:

 Translating Process to Structure:

• The evolution of structure

• Introducing organic structures

• Translating process to structure

• Calculating the complexity of priority

• Allocating roles to structure

 Creating Strategic Intent:

• From desire to vision to intent

• Understanding vision as primary driver of strategy

• Designing Desire – Vision and the V5 system

• Separating ultimate intent from project intent and current intent

 Assessing Risk:

• Fundamentals of strategic risk management

• Process risk vs. the risk of strategy

• Risk of PESTLE, Porters forces and other external threats

• Risk relating to resources, capabilities, structure and management systems

• Calculating strategic risk

• Mitigation and contingency planning

 Exploiting Opportunities:

• Complexities of an external environment

• Working with PESTLE

• The fundamentals of industry and competitive analysis

• Porters forces

• Opportunities as possible strategic projects

Day 3:

Making the Strategic Choice:

• Evolution or revolution?

• Analysing the need to compete

• Do we cut the pie or do we create a new pie (Red vs. Blue)?

• Developing the process / project ratio

• Making the choice

 Developing Strategic Projects:

• What needs to change?

• Developing strategic themes in accordance with strategic choice

• From themes to strategic projects

• Developing strategic project briefs

• Cross-mapping objectives, environmental analysis and critical success factors

 Putting it all together:

• Revisiting structure

• Documenting your strategy

• Strategy and money

• Relating scorecards to costing systems

 Execution:

• Translating strategy to action

• Doing the strategy audit

• Monitoring strategy

• Finding the problem

• Testing strategic success

 Training Methodology:

Derek Hendrikz is a Certified Professional Trainer (CPT) with the Southern Africa Professional Trainers Association (SAPTA). In terms of ratings, Derek is internationally acclaimed and beyond comparison with thousands of highly satisfied customers.

The methodology is based on interactive learning, i.e. learners will learn by doing. Inspirational presentations are combined with facilitated sessions and experiential exercises. Furthermore learners will use examples from their own organisations, thus ensuring that learning is anchored at their workplace.

As with all Derek’s training programmes, he strives to effect actual change back at the workplace through effective and practical outcomes-based training.

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