Being Strategic And Communicating Strategy

Strategy Management Overview

Change is increasingly driven by technology and it’s being adopted by customers and your competitors at an ever-faster rate. You need to think further ahead than the next 18 months and help understand the impact to maintain a competitive advantage. You need more than forecasting next year’s budget with requests coming from business peers…..You can help inspire that change by providing an understanding of what options are available to executives to make better decisions on furthering the vision of the company.

To gain alignment and direction with your business peers on the opportunity that technology can bring means a fundamental shift in mindset and approach. Think “Create, Innovate and Communicate” when you have a strategic opportunity:

• Create: Define a corporate strategy with basic market analysis, focusing on the values and the vision of the company.
• Innovate: Practice prototyping. Understand how to provide insight to inform business peers. Be introduced to minimum viable products and business models. Track lessons learnt as a means to innovate.
• Communicate: Understand the power of capability models and practice their creation. Define a roadmap that represents your team’s long term plan. Create a strategic plan that you can use to align with other departments.

This course is the overview of Strategy Management and is the first in a series of modules that covers the CIC framework. The Overview includes:

• Strategic Fundamentals – focus, character, culture, lifecycle and approaches
• Bonus – Communicate a Strategy using Strategy On A Page” (SOAP)

The modules that complete the rest of the CIC framework are found here: https://bta.news/b35 . Benefits of applying the CIC Framework workshop techniques:

Insight and Innovation

• Position your team to be future-focused by starting activities that will transform thinking on how technology is used in the company.

Direction

• Understand clearly the goals of your organisation.
• Work with Key Influencers and Decision Makers to assess whether their business activities support the goals of the organisation.

Organisational Clarity

• See where change is required in the organisation and visualise the impact required through defining capabilities.
• Create a roadmap that depicts both the technology changes and business changes, Through a process of prioritisation, analyse dependencies and alignment.

Strategic Alignment

• Cross-reference different department’s plans and their technology enablers.
• Check for gaps or duplication.
• Validate whether the strategic intent of individual departments align.