The Supply Chain Innovation Center and Business Incubator can design specialized training programs to meet the specific needs of your organization. Examples of topics are:
Designed for senior leaders and executives who make important strategic decisions and are responsible for the results of implementing strategy.
Based on selected readings, discussions, presentations and group exercises, the program will provide you with tools and frameworks for formulating and executing a competitive business strategy in complex and dynamic environments.
Focus is built on learning how to maximize competitive advantage and develop business models that disrupt industry. You will enhance your ability to analyze market and cost dynamics and gain insights that will enable you execute strategy and realign your organizational structure as strategy changes.
Through a carefully designed sequence of business cases, classroom discussions, presentations, and group exercises, you will learn what gives winning organizations their edge in terms of competitive strategy and organizational agility.
PROGRAM BENEFITS
- Use tested strategic management tools in a simulation and transfer insights into your business
- Formulate a competitive strategy for your business based on the dynamic context in which it competes
- Communicate strategic business choices to stakeholders using language and concepts that facilitate their buy-in
- Prepare to leverage the strategic challenges and opportunities leaders face
- Earn a Certificate of Participation from the Governors State University Continuing Education Unit
TOPICS COVERED
- Analyzing and designing business models and strategies in dynamic contexts
- Framework for Visualizing Data
- Moving from Generic Excel Charts to Beautiful Designs
- Using Software Tools Like Tableau to Make Visualization Easy
- Visualizing Different Data Sets Through Different formats including Charts, Graphs, Heatmaps, Scatterplots, Bubble Charts
WHO SHOULD ENROLL
The data visualization workshop is designed for managers, data analysts, report writers, or others in positions that use spreadsheets to organize data for reports and presentations to team members, supervisors, management, customers, or external stakeholders.
Designed for senior leaders and executives who make important strategic decisions and are responsible for the results of implementing strategy.
Based on selected readings, discussions, presentations and group exercises, the program will provide you with tools and frameworks for formulating and executing a competitive business strategy in complex and dynamic environments.
Focus is built on learning how to maximize competitive advantage and develop business models that disrupt industry. You will enhance your ability to analyze market and cost dynamics and gain insights that will enable you execute strategy and realign your organizational structure as strategy changes.
Through a carefully designed sequence of business cases, classroom discussions, presentations, and group exercises, you will learn what gives winning organizations their edge in terms of competitive strategy and organizational agility.
PROGRAM BENEFITS
- Use tested strategic management tools in a simulation and transfer insights into your business
- Formulate a competitive strategy for your business based on the dynamic context in which it competes
- Communicate strategic business choices to stakeholders using language and concepts that facilitate their buy-in
- Prepare to leverage the strategic challenges and opportunities leaders face
- Earn a Certificate of Participation from the Governors State University Continuing Education Unit
TOPICS COVERED
- Analyzing and designing business models and strategies in dynamic contexts
- Assessing competitive risks and identifying sources of sustainable strategic advantage
- Using balanced scorecards for evaluating strategy implementation
- Examining revenue and cost models and their relationship to market share growth
- Designing a strategy supportive organizational structure in the face of competitive forces
WHO SHOULD ENROLL
This program is ideal for:
- Senior leaders who want to gain new insights into business strategy, market dynamics, and competitive advantage
- Leaders moving into new roles where they need to anticipate the complex, interconnected implications of strategic decisions
- Strategy, operations and finance professionals who want to expand their toolkit related to business design and dynamics
While no specific training is required, participants should have a fundamental understanding of economics and should have previously studied strategy or completed a workshop such Business Strategy for Managers.
Focused on managers, business owners and individual contributors with limited experience in strategy, this program explores the basic concepts and tools of strategic business management. The strategic management process and framework and how it relates to gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage will be covered.
Participants will learn how to evaluate their competitive industry, including the use of strategic tools for evaluating environmental threats and opportunities and analyzing the nature of competitive forces. Participants shall also learn how to identify their company’s strengths and weaknesses and how to identify and develop capabilities. In addition, participants analyze the strategic position of their company in its industry company and study the levers for efficiently implementing strategy.
PROGRAM BENEFITS
- Develop the skills to perform external and internal analyses for companies and to evaluate the dynamics of competition
- Build strategies using appropriate frameworks and tools
- Understand the basics of strategy implementation and control
- Earn a Certificate of Participation from the Governors State University Continuing Education Unit
TOPICS COVERED
- Strategic management
- Competitive advantage
- External environment
- Internal context
- Competitive positioning and business strategy
- Strategy implementation and execution
WHO SHOULD ENROLL
Managers with limited exposure to strategy as well as Business owners, employers, and individual contributors from any industry who are interested in developing the skills needed to analyze and create strategy. Managers with exposure to strategic management will also find the workshop useful. There are no prerequisites, but a basic understanding of management and accounting principles will be beneficial.