Strategy and Innovation Training
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What is Strategy and Innovation?
This course will provide learners with a knowledge of management models, continuous improvement, management systems, change management, use of technology and data security. It will provide a general introduction to strategic planning and innovation, followed by an outline of organisational strategy development (including SWOT and PEST analyses), then how to follow through with your strategic planning and how to manage future change.
Strategic leadership and management is an important role for individuals in positions of responsibility, especially as they find themselves moving towards the upper echelons within an organisation.
In order to succeed, these individuals must possess all of the requisite skills and behaviours; but also they need to understand how to apply these skills in order to steer the broader organisational strategy towards the company vision, or even to sculpt and implement their own.
Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety
W. Ross Ashby was a British cyberneticist who described a law regarding the levels of variety and responses in a given system, later known as Ashby's Law.
Continuity and Contingency Management
Continuity and contingency management are essential for dealing with unforeseen circumstances.
Design Thinking: Creative Production Process
The five–step Design Thinking model was developed as a human–centred process for creative thinking, problem–solving and innovation.
In Search of Excellence– Tom Peters
A summary of the ideas from In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters, and how to apply them yourselves for personal effectiveness.
Mintzberg's 5Ps of Strategy
Henry Mintzberg's 5Ps provide alternative perspectives on, and approaches to, developing organisational strategy.
PEST Market Analysis Tool
The PEST analysis is a useful tool for understanding market growth or decline, and as such the position, potential and direction for a business.
Porter's Five Forces Model
Michael Porter's Five Forces framework for analysing industry competition and strategic positioning.
SOSTAC Planning Model – PR Smith
SOSTAC by PR Smith is a simple organisational planning model for assessing your situation and plotting next steps.
Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM)
Anthony Stafford Beer was a British leadership theorist, best known for his work into management cybernetics, including his Viable System Model.
Strategy Implementation and Realisation
How to turn organisational development strategy into action: how to motivate people to work towards corporate aims.
SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
SWOT analysis is a useful framework used to evaluate an organisation's competitive position and to develop appropriate processes for strategic planning.