Speaking Of Strategy: What Is Strategy?
Published 10/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 361.62 MB | Duration: 1h 27m
Introducing a practical system to create, analyze, and communicate top-level organizational strategy.
What you'll learn
Describe the origins and evolution of organizational strategy.
Identify common themes in current interpretations of strategy.
Construct a working definition of strategy.
Translate the working definition into the core strategy framework for analysis.
Discuss examples of things that look like strategy but are not.
Requirements
No experience necessary. We'll teach you a complete system for creating, analyzing, and communicating strategy.
Description
Strategy is a not a static plan or something you do once a year at a two-day retreat. It is a continuous conversation, and one that we as leaders need to be prepared to have every day to make better decisions. Speaking of Strategy is a complete system to support and guide those conversations. The system is built around a practical definition of strategy and a supporting framework for analysis, the core strategy framework, with seven elements:What is strategy?PurposeExternal factorsInternal factorsCore strategyPerformanceStrategy narrativeEach of the seven elements has its own course. What is Strategy? is the first and foundational course in the Speaking of Strategy series. It has five learning objectives:Review the origins of strategy and its evolution over time from military to political to organizational.Survey the current interpretations and definitions of strategy to identify common themes.Construct our own working definition of strategy.Describe the seven elements of the core strategy framework for creating, analyzing, and communicating strategy.Clarify our methodology by discussing examples of "not strategy," including metaphors, plans, and models.If you own or contribute to strategy for your organization, this course will give you a roadmap so you always know exactly where you are in the strategy process. Want to get better at speaking of strategy? This is the way!
