MG84
Course Contents
Module 1 - Traditional Versus Adaptive Approaches to Strategy
Key Topics
- The challenge for strategy making in times of uncertainty
- Difference between traditional and today’s strategy approaches and goals
- Why traditional strategies are hard to steer and do not respond well to changes in direction
- Moving from a traditional to an adaptive approach to strategy
- Experimenting rapidly and economically with strategies, business models and processes
Module 2 - Adaptative Organizational Principles
Key Topics
- The employee skills required to adapt rapidly and manage complex multi-stakeholder systems
- The ability to read and act on external signals of change, decode them – distinguish fact from fiction – and quickly act to refine or reinvent your strategy (or business model)
- Using signal-reading capabilities to make operational interventions in real time (bypassing slow-moving decision hierarchies)
- Helping adaptability thrive by encouraging company-wide knowledge flow, diversity, autonomy, risk taking, sharing and flexibility
Module 3 - Getting your Strategy Implemented
Key Topics
- Leading confidently and communicating openly and clearly
- Establishing top-down sponsorship to ensure consistent messages
- Recognizing resistance to change and dealing with it
- Handling personal stress during the upheaval
