Enacting Your Competitive Strategy Course

Competitive advantage is not only difficult to achieve - it’s a challenge to maintain, especially in times of uncertainty and change. This course has been designed to enable you addresses strategic business questions such as

• How do I assess the future profitability of a market?
• Who will claim the money in that market, not just today but tomorrow?
• What determines the economic power of different players in the supply chain, and what can firms do to increase their own power?
• How can game theory be used to anticipate and control the actions of rivals and partners?
• When will a merger or acquisition truly benefit a firm, and when will it instead be a costly distraction for management?

Learning Objective

At the end of this training session, participants will be able to

• Improve strategic thinking with state of the art models and tools
• Display competitive insight and skills to achieve profitable growth for your business
• Apply practical tools to execute strategies
• Decide which industries, markets and segments should they enter or exit?
• Create value for customers in a better way than competitors?
• Assess the challenges and seize the opportunities of digital disruption?
• Improve strategic decisions to impact shareholder value

Course Content

• What is strategy?
• Industry Analysis and Industry Attractiveness
• Value-based Strategies
• Competition and Strategic Thinking
• Porter's Generic Competitive Strategies
• Competitive advantage
• Sustainability
• Diversification and Growth
• Strategies for Vertical Integration
• Alliances for Achieving Strategic Objectives: Corporate Social Responsibility
• Global Industries and Taste
• Consolidated and Fragmented Industries: How do Emerging Market Companies Enter
• Governance and Strategy from the Board Room
• Technology and Inspiration
• Disruptive Change, Change in the Presence of Fit
• Barriers to Change
• Leadership during Strategic Change
• Strategy, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence