Implementing your Strategic Vision
through Practical Planning

This comprehensive Anderson training course consists of two modules which can be booked as a 10-Day Training event, or as individual, 5-Day training courses.

Module 1 - Practical Business Planning

Module 2 - Leadership & Strategic Impact

• Introduction – planning as leadership
• Business Planning as a cross-business process – “Train hard, fight easy!”
• Bottom-up and Top-down planning approaches
• Resources and facilities required for successful planning
• Financial Planning and Business Planning
• The importance of practical delivery – “where the rubber meets the road!”

• Using the Fishbone^© approach to shape the problem for an imaginary client described in student case study material
• Appraisal of the plan start point
• Formulation of the desired end-state
• Analysis of the “terrain of travel”
• Planning for Effectiveness
• Planning for Efficiency

• Porter’s Five Forces analysis
• SWOT and Force-field analysis
• The Boston Matrix
• The Ansoff Matrix
• The Communications Matrix^©
• The Balanced Scorecard

• PRINCE2 programme/project management
• Plan delivery and governance
• Engaging and motivating the organization’s resources
• Business Planning as part of Total Quality Management and “Lean”
• Measurement and Display
• Building a planning culture

• Communicating the plan to stakeholders
• Stepping stones, trip-ups and milestones
• Resourcing the projects
• Monitoring and celebrating success
• Continuous improvement of the process
• The “proof of the pudding”

• Strategy Development and Strategic Planning
• Understanding Stakeholder Interests – A Compromise
• Life cycles: business, product, market
• Achieving business sustainability, the value chain
• Popular strategy tools - understanding their limits
• Understanding the business environment

• Strategizing is a process
• Strategy Tools: imagining possible futures
• Examples: how CEO’s use strategy tools
• Zoom in, zoon out – information needed for emergent, agile strategies
• Red & Blue Ocean strategies – role of competitors
• Innovation: Attitudes to failure

• Vision, Mission and Values – just words?
• Elements of strategic management
• Globalisation and its impact on Strategy Formulation
• Tactics for securing and keeping customers
• Communicating priorities and objectives
• Using influence to achieve outcomes

• Using the Balanced Scorecard as a strategic measurement tool
• Strategy mapping
• Developing KPI’s to deliver corporate objectives
• Measuring past performance, predicting future results
• Business processes, management reviews and improvement opportunities
• People plus data, leads to understanding, knowledge and tactics

• Planning, the key to better outcomes
• Addressing barriers to action
• Gaining commitment
• Leading teams
• Team exercise – making decisions, taking action
• Reflections on learning, personal development plans

Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course