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Course

Business Strategy

43 hours 56 minutes

Credits: Optional Learning

Description

In this course, learners will develop the strategic thinking, business acumen, and leadership capabilities needed to drive organisational success in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Learners will explore strategic thinking frameworks, horizon scanning, risk management, and enterprise thinking, and apply these to set and synchronise organisational goals. They will examine business strategy and operations including competitive advantage, business model innovation, supply chain transparency, values-driven business value, and AI-powered strategy, drawing on MIT Sloan Management Review insights throughout. Learners will lead and manage digital transformation initiatives using change management models, stakeholder communication, and portfolio management, and develop a strong AI and data strategy encompassing data governance, data literacy, and data storytelling. They will also integrate sustainability into business strategy and apply business analysis frameworks including BABOK and technical programme management to align stakeholders, manage requirements, and support strategic delivery.

What Students Will Learn

  • Using Strategic Thinking as a Manager
  • Leading with Strategic Thinking
  • Leadership Insights on Strategic Thinking
  • Viewing the Big Picture Strategically
  • Leadercamp on-demand: The Art of Strategy & Planning
  • Leadercamp on-demand: Business Acumen Series on Strategy
  • Leadercamp on-demand: Long Term Strategy Goals
  • Leadercamp on-demand: Navigating Unknown-Unknowns in Strategy and Execution
  • Leadercamp on-demand: Redefine Tomorrow: Facing Challenges Head-On
  • Leadercamp on-demand: Enterprise Thinking
  • Horizon Scanning: Identifying Future Opportunities
  • Recognizing Organizational Risks
  • Assessing Organizational Risks
  • Managing Organizational Risks
  • Synchronize Goals to Optimize Your Team
  • Skill Benchmark: Strategic Thinking

  • Business Orientation: Strategic Organizational Goals
  • Business Strategy: Managing Organizational Value
  • Building Your Business Strategy with AI
  • BABOK® v3: BA Strategy Analysis
  • Managing Products and Services Strategically
  • Business Execution: How Things Get Done
  • Applying Competitive Advantage to Marketing Strategies
  • Setting and Implementing Effective Business Goals
  • Enabling Strategic Collaboration with Business-IT Alignment
  • Aligning Goals and Priorities To Manage Time
  • Developing Strong Business Acumen
  • MIT SMR: How to Make Sense of Irrational Competitors
  • MIT SMR: Building a Winning Workplace Culture: Strategies for Leaders
  • MIT SMR: Achieving Supply Chain Transparency
  • MIT SMR: Optimize Your Operations for Today — and Tomorrow
  • MIT SMR: Are You Ready for the Next Supply Disruption?
  • MIT SMR: Creating Values-Driven Business Value
  • Three Lessons From Chatting About Strategy With ChatGPT, powered by MIT SMR
  • Break Down Silos for Visibility Into Enterprise Risk, powered by MIT SMR
  • Reinventing and Rethinking Business Models
  • Reinventing Your Business Model to Support Digital Transformation
  • Key Concepts: Digital Business Model Innovation
  • Google Professional Cloud Architect: Business Use Cases & Product Strategy

  • Fundamentals of Digital Transformation
  • Maximizing Business Value through Change Management and Digital Transformation
  • Utilizing Change Management Models for Successful Digital Transformation
  • Transformative Leadership: Leaders as Enablers of Change Management
  • Effectively Communicating Change: Strategies for Digital Transformation
  • Overcoming Resistance to Change: Strategies for Successful Change Management
  • Principles of Digital Change Management
  • Leading and Sustaining Digital Transformation
  • Project and Portfolio Management for Digital Transformation
  • Driving Change: A Playbook of Best Practices for a Digital Transformation
  • Connecting Customers Through Digital Marketing
  • How to be successful in your Digital Transformation: Closing the Knowing-Doing Gap: Session Replay
  • How to be successful in your Digital Transformation: Practical Tips and Advice: Session Replay
  • Expert Reflections: Digital Transformation Across Industries
  • MIT SMR: Preparing Your Organization for a Generative Future

  • Define an AI strategy to create business value
  • Revolutionizing Business Processes with AI
  • Data Literacy as the New Business Language
  • Data Governance Essentials for Modern Organizations
  • DAMA-DMBOK® Essentials: Data Management Strategy & Business Value
  • Data Storytelling: Transforming Insights into Action

  • Integrating Sustainability into Business Strategy
  • Sustainability: Industry and Business Processes
  • MIT SMR: Tapping Into the Hidden Consumer Demand for Sustainability

  • BABOK® v3: Requirements Architecture and Design Options
  • BABOK® v3: Business Analysis Perspectives
  • BABOK® v3: Requirements and Designs Life Cycle Management
  • Technical Program Management: Supporting Strategic Alignment
  • Technical Program Management: Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication
  • Forging Relationships with External Stakeholders

  • Using Systems Thinking to Strengthen Strategic Alignment
  • Sustainable Business Strategy: Analysis, Choice and Implementation
  • Digital Business Strategy: Content, Context and Cases
  • Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking

Overall Learning Outcomes

  • Apply strategic thinking frameworks to assess organisational direction, consider the big picture, and navigate uncertainty
  • Scan the horizon for future opportunities and manage organisational risks proactively
  • Develop and execute business strategies that align goals, manage value, and leverage competitive advantage
  • Apply business model innovation and digital business strategy to drive organisational transformation
  • Integrate AI into business strategy and operations to create measurable business value
  • Lead digital transformation initiatives using change management models, communication strategies, and portfolio management
  • Overcome resistance to change and sustain transformation across complex organisational environments
  • Define and implement an AI and data strategy including data governance, data literacy, and data management frameworks
  • Communicate data insights through storytelling to support strategic decision-making
  • Integrate sustainability principles into business strategy and industry processes
  • Apply BABOK frameworks to strategy analysis, requirements architecture, and design options
  • Manage technical programmes with a focus on strategic alignment, stakeholder collaboration, and effective communication