Strategic Thinking and Business Acumen
Training Provider: SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY
Course Reference: TGS-2023039754
S$600
Original: S$2,000
Save S$1,400
About This Course
In today’s Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA) environment, strategic thinking and business acumen are essential competencies that business leaders must possess to see the big picture and to understand the impact of the external environment and internal functional interdependencies to act on opportunities for business growth.
What You'll Learn
This 2-day programme aims to equip business and Human Resource leaders to:
• Understand organisations’ competitive advantages and strategies in relation to the external environment
• Analyse an organisation’s current and future core capabilities required to deliver on the business strategies
• Develop an appropriate people agenda/strategy that have high impact on current and future business performance
• Align work plans/operations to organisation strategy to realise tangible results.
• Provide senior leaders and stakeholders with strategic insights that would facilitate agile responses to the changing business environment and opportunities and challenges.
Topics
• What is Strategy? What is not strategy?
• External environment analysis
• Internal analysis
• Business-level strategy
• Corporate-level strategy
• Putting people at the heart of all strategies
• Generating & implementing new ideas/initiatives
• Understand organisations’ competitive advantages and strategies in relation to the external environment
• Analyse an organisation’s current and future core capabilities required to deliver on the business strategies
• Develop an appropriate people agenda/strategy that have high impact on current and future business performance
• Align work plans/operations to organisation strategy to realise tangible results.
• Provide senior leaders and stakeholders with strategic insights that would facilitate agile responses to the changing business environment and opportunities and challenges.
Topics
• What is Strategy? What is not strategy?
• External environment analysis
• Internal analysis
• Business-level strategy
• Corporate-level strategy
• Putting people at the heart of all strategies
• Generating & implementing new ideas/initiatives
Entry Requirements
Polytechnic diploma Polytechnic advanced diploma (including polytechnic advanced/post/specialist/management/graduate diploma) Diploma qualifications (eg NIE diploma, SIM diploma, LaSalle-SIA diploma, NAFA diploma) Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Course Details
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