Business Strategy & Planning
Business Strategy and Planning Courses in Malawi
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2KO's courses in Business Strategy and Planning will assist you with understanding the process of business management as well as teach you varied strategies to manage business strategies and processes in the modern world. 2KO Africa offers IT consulting, technical IT services and top-of-the-range IT training on multiple platforms. Our best-of-breed computer courses are presented as instructor led classes or as online internet-based elearning, to ensure students have access to the best Business Strategy and Planning training anywhere in Malawi, and even the world.
Business
strategy & planning (2 Weeks)
Course overview
In today's business world more potential
projects exist than there is time and money to perform them. In an
increasingly competitive, rapidly evolving marketplace, a successful
business must understand its market's critical success factors and
its position relative to them. This understanding must be
efficiently and effectively translated into prioritized projects and
management actions. Learn to proactively build upon the business's
strengths, mitigate the business's weaknesses, capitalize on market
opportunities, and defend against market threats. The Business
Planning and Strategy Development course supplies portfolio,
project, and program managers with needed knowledge, tools, and
techniques to efficiently and effectively connect projects to
winning business strategies.
Course Features
This case study-based course
emphasizes the use of tools and techniques from diverse disciplines
in rapid prototyping environments. Students will learn to
efficiently and effectively craft specific, measureable, realistic,
achievable, and time-based (SMART) goals. Business goals are further
defined through integrated strategies, which are supported by
logically-sequenced, resource-loaded projects and communicated to
stakeholders. Tools and techniques demonstrated in class include:
market analysis (Porter Analysis), standard business planning models
(American Management Association), decision analysis (Kepner-Tregoe
Problem Solving and Decision Making), and project planning (The
Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide, Fifth Edition).
Course Topic highlights
This course introduces candidates to a
three-phase business planning model:
Phase 1 - Business Analysis, Gap Analysis,
and Strategy Development
Confirm, refine, or develop the business's or
business unit's vision, mission, values, and goals
Define the business's market in terms of its constituencies
Develop market critical success factors (CSFs) and identify market
threats and opportunities
Assess the business's current status in terms of profitability,
people, plans, and processes
Define business performance strengths and weaknesses ("gaps")
relative to market CSFs
Identify strategies to close gaps
Establish prioritization criteria for rank ordering proposed actions
Phase 2 - Action Planning and
Prioritization
Develop and review action plans that are
designed to close identified gaps (scope, schedule, level of effort,
responsibility, and precedence)
Prioritize action plans using controlled opinion feedback and
decision analysis tools
Phase 3 - Integration,
Communication, and Feedback
Develop resource-loaded action and project
plans
Plan communication and integration with ongoing operations
Periodic review and feedback
Included in your course fees
Professional fees for the design of the programme
Professional fees for the delivery of the programme
Teaching materials and consumables
Travel & accommodation for faculty
Venue, equipment hire
Snacks and refreshments
Airport Pick Up and Drop Off
Basic Computer familiarisation training
How to enrol for the course
Before enrolling for a course you should have
the following information ready:
Date you wish to attend the course
Payment method - how you will be paying
An understanding of the costs of the total package
Course Duration
2 Weeks