Strategic Planning: Develop & Plan Effective Strategy

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Download Here: All The Strategic Planning Tools You Get With This Course

Lecture 3: Let's Celebrate Your Progress In This Course: 25% > 50% > 75% > 100%!!

Lecture 4: Who Is Dr James Robertson: Strategic Planning Thought Leader & Strategy Doctor

Lecture 5: Introduce Yourself To Your Fellow Students And Tell Everyone What Are Your Goals

Lecture 6: Definition Of Strategy

Lecture 7: Whiteboard Overview Of Key Concepts & Tools In This Course

Lecture 8: An Engineering Approach To Strategy

Lecture 9: What Does The Engineering Approach Entail In Business Strategy

Lecture 10: Strategic Planning Post COVID

Lecture 11: 7 Critical Questions For A Crisis

Chapter 2: Requirements for a successful strategic analysis, design outcome: Critical Roles

Lecture 1: Requirements for a successful strategic analysis and design outcome

Lecture 2: Getting the right Governance in place: role of the Sponsor

Lecture 3: Who Should Be The Delegates For The Strategic Workshop

Chapter 3: Case Study Strategic Planning: Leadership Crisis Defused

Lecture 1: Leadership Crisis Defused

Lecture 2: Corruption and Sabotage Exposed

Chapter 4: Setting Up Before Your Strategic Planning Workshop & What Is The StratSnap Tool?

Lecture 1: Prework before the workshop

Lecture 2: Be clear on the objective: Constantly narrowing focus to critical issues

Lecture 3: Define what a solution should deliver: Be Clear On Beneficial Business Impact

Lecture 4: Planning Period and Iterations

Lecture 5: Before the start of the workshop

Lecture 6: Developing an IT Strategy

Chapter 5: Determine the objectives, essence, focus and critical issues to solve

Lecture 1: Determine The Workshop Objective

Lecture 2: Conduct interviews with critical stakeholders and executives: essence & focus?

Lecture 3: Determining the ESSENCE of the business and how it thrives

Lecture 4: Analysis of the strategic environment

Lecture 5: Strategic Parameters Core Strategic Drivers

Chapter 6: Learn The StratSnap Critical Issues SnapShot process

Lecture 1: Preparation: The StratSnap Critical Issues SnapShot

Lecture 2: You've Achieved 25% >> Let's Celebrate Your Progress And Keep Going To 50% >>

Lecture 3: These Toolsets and Methods have been successful for 12 years

Chapter 7: Critical Factors; What They Are

Lecture 1: What Are Critical Factors: Very Important To Get This Right!

Lecture 2: Critical Factor Determination

Lecture 3: Critical Factor Characteristics

Chapter 8: Setting Up The StratSnap Tool For Your Strategic Planning Workshop

Lecture 1: Conventions with the Tool

Lecture 2: What IS a Focus Question For The SnapShot

Lecture 3: Focus Questions and the Strategic Map

Lecture 4: Focus Questions & Core Strategic Objectives

Lecture 5: Capture Session Details

Lecture 6: Setting Up The Delegate List

Chapter 9: Running The Strategic Planning Workshop

Lecture 1: Outline of the Strategic Snapshot Process

Lecture 2: Starting the Strategic StratSnap© process

Lecture 3: Brainstorming The Detail Factors

Lecture 4: Capture Brainstorm Results

Lecture 5: Notes on Brainstorming

Lecture 6: More About Detail Factor Brainstorming

Chapter 10: Tips For Running Your Strategic Planning Workshop Online

Lecture 1: How To Engage Your Workshop Participants Using "Virtual Eye Contact"

Lecture 2: How To Communicate & Facilitate Better In Online Workshops & Meetings

Lecture 3: You've Achieved 50% >> Let's Celebrate Your Progress And Keep Going To 75% >>

Lecture 4: A Tip For Managing A Break Period During Your Online Workshop

Lecture 5: Increase Workshop Engagement: Learn How To Use The Poll Feature In Teams

Chapter 11: In The Workshop: Critical Factor Analysis & Synthesizing

Lecture 1: What People Do In the Workshop: Critical Factors (See Resources For Download)

Lecture 2: Critical Factor Capture

Lecture 3: Critical Factor Determination:Criticise

Lecture 4: Critical Factor Determination:Synthesis

Lecture 5: Primary Critical Factors

Lecture 6: Abbreviated Critical Factors

Lecture 7: Critical Factor Dimension

Lecture 8: Critical Stages

Chapter 12: Using The StratSnap Tool: Demo & Explanation

Lecture 1: Detail Factor Sort and Grouping

Chapter 13: The 2nd Part Of Your Strategic Planning Workshop

Lecture 1: Printing The Delegate Worksheet

Lecture 2: Ranking The Critical Factors

Lecture 3: Weighting The Critical Factors

Lecture 4: Factor Weighting Steps

Lecture 5: Capture Dimension 1 Weights

Lecture 6: Factor Weighting Shares

Lecture 7: Summing up Weights

Lecture 8: You've Achieved 75% >> Let's Celebrate Your Progress And Keep Going To 100% >>

Lecture 9: Weighting Graph Data

Lecture 10: Critical Factor Weight Explanation

Lecture 11: Scoring

Lecture 12: Factor Scoring

Lecture 13: Managing Historic Scoring

Lecture 14: Score Data

Chapter 14: Managing Scoring

Lecture 1: Current Scoring

Lecture 2: Forecast Scoring

Lecture 3: Objective Scoring

Lecture 4: Quality Control on Objective vs Current

Lecture 5: Score Graph

Lecture 6: Objective vs Forecast vs Current

Lecture 7: Historic Score Distribution

Lecture 8: General Trend of Factor Scores

Lecture 9: Strategic Tragectory

Lecture 10: Score Evaluation Prespective of Status

Chapter 15: Analysing The Results & Developing & Completing The Strategy

Lecture 1: Critical Factor Summary

Lecture 2: Developing a Robust Strategic Design