Achieving Strategic Agility
Seize the upside of turbulence
In today's unsettled markets, doing more of what worked in the past is a recipe for extinction. Instead, leaders must anticipate market shifts and change direction quickly to seize emerging opportunities and dodge looming threats.
Achieving Strategic Agility Programme (ASA) gives you the techniques to stay one step ahead of the competition, by seizing opportunities and managing risks in unpredictable markets.
Why choose this programme?
Over five intensive days, you will learn practical survival tips for volatile markets including:
- how to spot opportunities others miss; how to survive risks that you cannot foresee
- how to execute a strategy; and how to lead your organisation more effectively
- how to consistently seize opportunities (and avoid threats) faster than your competitors.
Multimedia presentations enliven internal discussions, while guest speakers bring a refreshing outside perspective to the classroom. Also, you'll have the opportunity to apply what you've learned to your own organisation. To facilitate this, you'll receive a set of 'tools' that allow you to create a plan of action for when you return to work.
Who is the programme for?
- CEOs, senior managers and general managers working in emerging markets or unpredictable business environments
- Functional managers looking to develop and influence department or company strategy or entry strategies for unpredictable markets
- Consultants, venture capitalists and other professionals advising or funding companies involved in emerging and unpredictable markets
How will this programme benefit you?
The programme makes you an agile team leader by increasing your awareness of potential pitfalls and opportunities in complex markets.
- You'll be able to improve your ability to drive strategy implementation
- You'll become more aware and manage opportunities and threats early on
- You'll gain a new set of tools to use in volatile situations
- You'll use commitments as a powerful tool to get things done in large, complex organisations
- You'll develop the skills required to lead in an uncertain world
How will this programme benefit your organisation?
Your organisation will benefit from a manager with an enhanced ability to react effectively to a changing environment, seizing opportunities and managing risks other companies miss. A clear view of the strengths and weaknesses and flexibility required to implement new initiatives quickly and effectively will give your organisation a strong competitive advantage.
Programme focus
On the Achieving Strategic Agility programme you'll focus on these key areas:
- Staying one step ahead of shifting market conditions
- Closing the gap between strategy and execution
- Creating value in volatile markets
- Seeing opportunities and threats that competitors miss
- Making hard choices to succeed in the marketplace
- Transforming from a 'can't do' to 'can do' culture
- Managing a portfolio of opportunities to maintain profitable growth
- Effective leadership in unsettled times
- Recognising and avoiding the inertia that makes good companies go bad.
Programme content
The five-day intensive programme comprises a full schedule of teaching, case studies, interactive discussion and personal development.
Arrival day (Sunday): welcome dinner and programme introduction
Day 1: (Monday):
- Balancing agility and absorption
- Closing the gap between strategy and execution
Day 2: (Tuesday):
- Seizing opportunities that others miss
- The three logics of executions
Day 3: (Wednesday):
- Avoiding a corporate mid-life crisis
- Co-consulting exercise
Day 4: (Thursday):
- Balancing agility and absorption
- Leading in unsettled times
Day 5: (Friday)
- How to stop good companies going bad
Faculty profile
Dr. Donald Sull is a Professor of Management Practice and Faculty Director of Executive Education at London Business School. The Economist identified his theory of active inertia as an idea that shaped business management over the past century, and Fortune listed him among the ten new management gurus. He has published over one hundred articles, cases, and books including several best-selling Harvard Business Review articles, and five award-winning books. Sull has three degrees from Harvard, where he taught entrepreneurship. He worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company, and a management-investor with the leveraged buyout firm Clayton & Dubilier. He is an active investor in several start-ups and works with large companies including Oracle, Nokia, Royal Bank of Canada, Standard Chartered, Emirates Airline, Baker & McKenzie, Burberry, and Pimco.
Dates
Next programme date:
14-19 November 2010
Dates are subject to change.
Fees
The 2010 programme fee is £5,600. This includes all tuition, educational material, coffee breaks and most meals.
Fees are subject to change.
Cancellations
To avoid a cancellation or transfer fee, we must receive your cancellation, in writing, no less than six weeks before the programme starts.
Read our full terms and conditions
Key details
- Duration:
- 5 days
- Next start:
- 14 November 2010
- Location:
- London
- Fees:
- £5,600
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