Sound strategy takes two things — the analysis to formulate it, and the discipline to put it into practice.
Strategy Formulation and Implementation is designed for managers and leaders who shape or carry out strategy in their organisation. It develops the concepts, frameworks and techniques behind better strategic decisions — analysing an industry and a firm’s own resources, formulating business and corporate strategy, and executing it — while recognising the uncertainty and complexity that real strategy has to cope with.
Rather than studying strategy in the abstract, you apply it to a real strategic challenge in your own organisation — running it through the work-applied learning method over three months, so that capability is built, tested and evidenced in the work itself.
Managers and leaders responsible for setting or contributing to their organisation’s strategy.
Senior staff moving into roles where strategic decision-making is part of the job.
Managers leading a business unit, function or initiative who need to think and act strategically.
Leaders who formulate strategy well but want to strengthen how it is carried out.
The areas you develop through your work-based project.
Planning and implementing a work-based project to address a strategy challenge in the organisation.
AI guidance as you work through your project and reflection.
Directed readings through WRIA’s online platform.
Pre-recorded videos and activities for learning and reflection.
A plan for your work-based project.
Monthly reflective reports on your progress.
A final implementation report bringing together your reflections and the strategy you developed and put into practice.
Be in a role where you can undertake a real work-based project.
Have adequate English language proficiency.
Certificate of Completion — for those who complete the deliverables to the required standard.
Certificate of Participation — for those who take part but do not meet the standard.
A final report demonstrating your knowledge of corporate and business strategy, grounded in the evidence of a real strategic challenge.
The capability to analyse, synthesise and critically evaluate the tools of strategy analysis and implementation.
A strategic challenge in your own organisation, worked through and materially advanced.
Reflective Practice skills which you can carry forward in your career.
Download the detailed outline of structure, the work-based project and measurement.
Strategy Formulation and Implementation runs entirely online over about three months, built around a real strategic challenge in your own organisation. Talk to us about running it for your teams.