STRATEGY DYNAMICS COURSES

Step 1

Model the Essentials

Step 2

Understand and Explore

Step 3

Extend the power

1. MODEL THE ESSENTIALS

Model any business challenge or plan. Fast.

Business models need to be more than words that talk about how a business works. You need models showing how the business actually works. How are the key pieces of the business connected?

How does each affect the way that others change over time? What happens when the system comes up against the real world?

How can you design the system to be most effective? How can you control that system for the best, sustainable performance?

You will learn how to answer these questions in the Business Modeling Essentials course. You'll learn, at a high level:

3. EXTEND THE POWER

Model complex real-world business challenges

There are many complexities in any real-world business. So you need to extend a business model to capture those complexities in a form you can easily work with.

You will learn to model these complexities in the Business Modeling Extensions courses.

Class 5: "Attributes" of business resources

Class 6: Resource pipelines

Class 7: Competition

Class 8: Policies and Decisions

Class 9: Intangibles

Class 10: Capabilities and learning

Step 1

Strategy Dynamics Essentials

Step 2

The Core Business System

Step 3

Extend the power
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1. STRATEGY DYNAMICS ESSENTIALS

Grasp the principles that govern how any organisation works

Your organisation is like a well-oiled machine. All of its elements are joined-up, so your decisions must be too. Static models like the business model canvas, KPI systems, and even balanced scorecards cannot capture how that machine works. You need a dynamic approach to planning and decision-making.

The Strategy Dynamics Essentials course shows you how to use working, visual models to understand and manage your organisation or any issue it faces. For the first time, you will see the working system that is your organisation.

With a visual map of the enterprise featuring quantified charts of all key elements, you will see the mechanisms that drive business performance or drive any issue, challenge, or opportunity you need to tackle. A truly living business model.

2. THE CORE BUSINESS SYSTEM

Make decisions knowing how they will play out into the future

Your business is heavily interconnected. Before making big plans or decisions, you need to understand why your business, function, or issue has played out as it has up to the present time.

And you need to understand how it will likely play out into the future. This insight will help you develop strategies and tackle challenges with confidence - generating sustained strong performance.

The Strategy Dynamics for Leaders core course will help you make joined-up decisions to manage the strategy continually. Course highlights:

• 1-2 key lessons in each class give time-pressured leaders insights fast 
• Working examples across contrasting cases and models you can adapt to your situation  
• See the power of the approach by tracking the performance of a real-world business case

COMING SOON : 3. USE AND EXTEND

Use strategy dynamics to tackle complex real-world challenges

Business plans and decisions in the real world are more complex than we imagine. Because real businesses have many factors and mechanisms beyond the simple numbers of customers, staff, and capacity

 There are internal variables like the quality of customers and other key resources, pipelines of customers and staff, and soft, intangible factors like skills, reputation, data, and business processes.

The Strategy Dynamics for Leaders Extensions course provides the tools to tackle all these issues and more, helping you make robust plans and decisions. Course highlights include:

• Simple but powerful structures that capture common, substantial challenges
• Working models of all those structures that you can adapt to your own situation
• Examples of real-world cases where these tools transformed performance

You need to develop strategies for your organisation. But you have either missed out on training for how to do that, or need a reminder. This course explains the critical strategy methods you must develop for your business.

The Strategy for Leaders course uses real-world examples to show how standard strategy methods work, and applies them to develop a strategy for a current real example - the Beyond Meat Inc food company. The course adds guidance on how to go beyond the "strategic positioning" that those methods offer, and plan how to implement the strategy.

The course explains: