Corporate Training
Blue Ocean offers a wide array of bespoke corporate training solutions for organizations to enable their employees to become specialists in their industry. We offer over 600+ corporate training programs catering to a wide range of industries across government, semi-government and private organizations. The courses are designed to deliver strategic insights and learning for building high potential teams that can drive actionable strategies for their organizations. Our corporate programs are flexible and can be tailored to suit customers’ specific needs, helping teams unleash their maximum potential for organizational benefits.
Strategic Thinking, Planning & Implementation
Course Objective:
- Understand the importance of strategy to an organization.
- Identify the factors, which influence strategy.
- Link the strategy with an organization’s overall objectives.
- Understand the manager’s role in creating and implementing a strategy.
- Develop and implement a strategic plan.
- Develop a flexible approach to planning and incorporating contingency options.
- Improve the decision making process.
- Understand the impact of a strategy on people.
- Measure the success of the plan.
- Recognize why strategic plans fail and how to avoid the mistakes of others.
- Sharpen your strategic decision-making skills to develop strategic reflexes in competitive situations
- Understand and recognize the differences between a situation that is essentially operational and one that has clear strategic implications
- Ensure the real incorporation of the competitive dimension in the formulation of strategy
- Acquire strategic principles for guiding the effective deployment of resources to realize the role that senior
Course Outline
The Strategic Mind in Business
- Applying strategic structures, strategic deployment and strategic principles inside the company
- Effective business strategist
- Nurturing and developing the strategic mind
Assessing Current State of the Organization
- Leadership
- Strategic planning
- Customer and market focus
- Measurement, analysis and knowledge management
- Human resources focus
- Process management
- Business results
Philosophy, Purpose and Mission
- Developing the guiding philosophy
- Establishing purpose and mission
- Organizational
The Need for Greater Creativity and Innovation
- Challenging accepted norms
- The need to continually re-appraise
- Changing the boundaries
- Increasing your options
- Introducing the creative process to the business environment
- Measuring the use of creative thinking
Developing Successful Businesses
- Business goals – the prime areas of focus
- Business success – key drivers
- Business stability – avoiding failure
How Thinking Works
- The all important ‘first stage’ of thinking
- Vertical versus lateral thinking
- Measurement: prediction and evaluation of outcomes
- Emotion: natural responses to issues, choices and options
- Creating: combining approaches and incorporating additional external input
How to Keep the Mind Open
- Logically assessing your thinking stage
- Suspending implementation of the obvious solution
- Pro-actively reaching for new ways, ideas, principles, realities
Creative Thinking
- The psychology of problem solving
- Defining six types of problem
- Force fields and driving forces – how to use them
- Breaking from traditional thinking patterns – structured brainstorming
- Using creative thinking skills to identify objectives
- Project management using creative thinking techniques
- Accumulating a quantity solution
- Using the paired-choice matrix to identify the best solution
Environmental Analysis
- The environment and what’s changing
- Impact on future choices
Industry Analysis
- The nature and intensity of the competition
- The bargaining power of the industry
- Analysis and actions
Corporate Analysis
- SWOT questions and analysis
Market Analysis
- Identifying your strategic business unit
- The critical success factor of the market.
- Market mapping – analysis and actions
Organizational Analysis
- Key areas of change required
- Setting corporate direction
Creating Value for the Business – the Benefits of a Strategic Approach
- Clear direction for a dynamic organization
- Creating competitive advantage
- Effectively planning the use of resources
- Creating a direction and unifying the team
Developing the Strategic Plan
- The place for strategy and tactics
- Introducing a strategic mindset
- Creating time for strategic thinking
- Encouraging creativity within the strategy
- The key strategic planning skills
- Analyzing the business environment in which the organization operates
- Developing choices through option analysis
- Using critical paths to aid decision making
- Identifying the key resources
- Setting clear and measurable objectives
- Risk analysis
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Strategic Planning
- Lack of vision
- Captured by the past
- Lured into complacency by success
- Inability to evaluate fresh ideas
- Denying the truth
- Inside the box thinking
- Strategic drift
Implementing and Managing the Strategy – Delivering Results
- Securing ownership of the strategy
- Overcoming resistance and gaining commitment to the strategy
- Using consultation to empower colleagues and improve decision making
- Strategy and organizational culture
- Using scenario planning to help identify future direction
- Managing risk
- Evaluating and implementing action
Evaluation – Keeping the Strategy Dynamic
- How to react to opportunities and threats
- Keeping the plan flexible – adapting to changes in the environment
- Developing and adapting long term objectives
- Measuring success
- Identifying and learning lessons
Course Objective:
- Understand the importance of strategy to an organization.
- Identify the factors, which influence strategy.
- Link the strategy with an organization’s overall objectives.
- Understand the manager’s role in creating and implementing a strategy.
- Develop and implement a strategic plan.
- Develop a flexible approach to planning and incorporating contingency options.
- Improve the decision making process.
- Understand the impact of a strategy on people.
- Measure the success of the plan.
- Recognize why strategic plans fail and how to avoid the mistakes of others.
- Sharpen your strategic decision-making skills to develop strategic reflexes in competitive situations
- Understand and recognize the differences between a situation that is essentially operational and one that has clear strategic implications
- Ensure the real incorporation of the competitive dimension in the formulation of strategy
- Acquire strategic principles for guiding the effective deployment of resources to realize the role that senior
Course Outline
The Strategic Mind in Business
- Applying strategic structures, strategic deployment and strategic principles inside the company
- Effective business strategist
- Nurturing and developing the strategic mind
Assessing Current State of the Organization
- Leadership
- Strategic planning
- Customer and market focus
- Measurement, analysis and knowledge management
- Human resources focus
- Process management
- Business results
Philosophy, Purpose and Mission
- Developing the guiding philosophy
- Establishing purpose and mission
- Organizational
The Need for Greater Creativity and Innovation
- Challenging accepted norms
- The need to continually re-appraise
- Changing the boundaries
- Increasing your options
- Introducing the creative process to the business environment
- Measuring the use of creative thinking
Developing Successful Businesses
- Business goals – the prime areas of focus
- Business success – key drivers
- Business stability – avoiding failure
How Thinking Works
- The all important ‘first stage’ of thinking
- Vertical versus lateral thinking
- Measurement: prediction and evaluation of outcomes
- Emotion: natural responses to issues, choices and options
- Creating: combining approaches and incorporating additional external input
How to Keep the Mind Open
- Logically assessing your thinking stage
- Suspending implementation of the obvious solution
- Pro-actively reaching for new ways, ideas, principles, realities
Creative Thinking
- The psychology of problem solving
- Defining six types of problem
- Force fields and driving forces – how to use them
- Breaking from traditional thinking patterns – structured brainstorming
- Using creative thinking skills to identify objectives
- Project management using creative thinking techniques
- Accumulating a quantity solution
- Using the paired-choice matrix to identify the best solution
Environmental Analysis
- The environment and what’s changing
- Impact on future choices
Industry Analysis
- The nature and intensity of the competition
- The bargaining power of the industry
- Analysis and actions
Corporate Analysis
- SWOT questions and analysis
Market Analysis
- Identifying your strategic business unit
- The critical success factor of the market.
- Market mapping – analysis and actions
Organizational Analysis
- Key areas of change required
- Setting corporate direction
Creating Value for the Business – the Benefits of a Strategic Approach
- Clear direction for a dynamic organization
- Creating competitive advantage
- Effectively planning the use of resources
- Creating a direction and unifying the team
Developing the Strategic Plan
- The place for strategy and tactics
- Introducing a strategic mindset
- Creating time for strategic thinking
- Encouraging creativity within the strategy
- The key strategic planning skills
- Analyzing the business environment in which the organization operates
- Developing choices through option analysis
- Using critical paths to aid decision making
- Identifying the key resources
- Setting clear and measurable objectives
- Risk analysis
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Strategic Planning
- Lack of vision
- Captured by the past
- Lured into complacency by success
- Inability to evaluate fresh ideas
- Denying the truth
- Inside the box thinking
- Strategic drift
Implementing and Managing the Strategy – Delivering Results
- Securing ownership of the strategy
- Overcoming resistance and gaining commitment to the strategy
- Using consultation to empower colleagues and improve decision making
- Strategy and organizational culture
- Using scenario planning to help identify future direction
- Managing risk
- Evaluating and implementing action
Evaluation – Keeping the Strategy Dynamic
- How to react to opportunities and threats
- Keeping the plan flexible – adapting to changes in the environment
- Developing and adapting long term objectives
- Measuring success
- Identifying and learning lessons