Strategic Business Planning

The Guide to run a Strategic Planning Process That Actually Works

What you'll learn

Run a Strategic Planning Process

Define the current organization status and Conduct a SWOT analysis.

Define your organization's direction including mission, vision, guiding principles and goals.

Assess and choose Initiatives that create a sustainable competitive advantage for the organization.

Requirements

Assess and choose Initiatives that create a sustainable competitive advantage for the organization.

Description

Shape the overall business direction of your organization by leveraging a proven strategic planning process. In this course, Mohamed teaches you how to formulate, execute, and monitor strategic planning for your organization by assessing your current business status.Mohamed shows you how to articulate your organization's core competencies, vision, mission, and strategic criteria. Using these criteria, he shows how to evaluate prioritize competing initiatives, how to allocate resources to best support those initiatives.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 What is Strategic Planning

Lecture 3 The Strategic Planing Process

Lecture 4 Conducting the process

Section 2: Determine Current strategic position

Lecture 5 Evaluate The Market

Lecture 6 Perform a SWOT Analysis

Lecture 7 Use your SWOT Analysis

Section 3: Define Your Strategic Direction

Lecture 8 Define your Organization’s Direction

Lecture 9 Define your Organization’s mission

Lecture 10 Define your Organization’s vision

Lecture 11 Defining session

Lecture 12 Set guidance principles

Lecture 13 Set Goals

Section 4: Refine and priorities Initiatives

Lecture 14 The Strategic criteria

Lecture 15 Define Strategic criteria

Lecture 16 Use Strategic criteria

Lecture 17 Prioritize Initiatives

Lecture 18 Detailed analysis for high priority initiatives

Lecture 19 The prioritization list

Lecture 20 2x2 analysis

Section 5: Ready for success

Lecture 21 Allocate resources

Lecture 22 Accountability

Section 6: Be careful

Lecture 23 Avoid Traps

All leaders and managers who are involved in influencing or articulating the strategic planning of their organization.,Individuals who are responsible for improving the performance of their organization, including strategy or performance management professionals, balanced scorecard managers, business unit and department managers and business analysts.