Strategic Enterprise Analysis and Consulting Skills

Training Course Overview

This training course “Certificate in Strategic Enterprise Analysis and Consulting Skills” has been specially designed to develop a new type of manager in the critical competences of business analysis and effective consultancy in priority activities that will enable an organization to achieve, sustain and enhance competitive advantage and profitable growth. This is both an intensive introduction to leading-edge techniques of business analysis and also an updating mechanism for advancing the practical skills that are required in strategic consultancy – either as an internal specialist within your current organization or as an external consultant.  This highly participative training course will greatly advance your personal development in these two key aspects of managerial activity.

Training Course Objectives
By attending this training course, delegates will be able to:

Analyze the future potential of your organization's current business
Identify and evaluate opportunities for profitable growth
Build strategic planning teams and produce plans that get implemented
Motivate and engage colleagues or clients to gain their commitment and support
Introduce and lead the implementation of innovative strategic plans

Who Should Attend?
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

Strategic planners who wish to learn leading-edge tools and techniques
Marketing specialists who now need to take a broader view of the business
Operations managers who have an interest in a general management role
Experienced finance specialists and investment analysts
Human resource managers responsible for introducing change
Scientific and technical specialists interested in strategic planning
Supply chain, logistics and business process managers
High-potential staff who need a rapid introduction to strategic management

Training Course Outline
There will be two principal themes in this training course:

(i) strategic enterprise analysis and

ii) developing consulting skills.

Amongst a wide range of valuable topics, the following will be prioritized:

What is strategic management and why is it important?
The main tools and techniques of strategic analysis
Assessing the attractiveness of our chosen business activity
Evaluating our performance in our chosen business activity
Designing and implementing a strategic plan for profitable growth
Defining the role and relationship with an internal or external client
Proposing and negotiating a consulting contract
Selecting internal and external members of the team
Launching, managing and controlling a consulting project