Driving Strategic Impact (Online)
Through a combination of tools, frameworks, role-play, and case studies, tackle strategic problems in a structured, fact-based manner that leads to high-impact recommendations.
Over the last few decades, top-tier strategy consulting firms have cultivated a unique set of skills that consistently help them deliver high-impact solutions to complex strategic issues. Driving Strategic Impact (Online) trains participants in how to drive strategic impact for their organizations and their clients, through a combination of tools, frameworks, role-plays, and case studies. It is organized along the four phases of strategic problem solving: (i) Developing a Clear Understanding of Your Problem, (ii) Creating a Strategy Development Roadmap, (iii) Analyzing Data to Draw Strategic Conclusions, and (iv) Developing High Impact Recommendations.
This program is based on the popular Driving Strategic Impact class at Columbia Business School, offered additionally as a 3-day Executive Education program at the Columbia University campus in New York City. See here for more details.
Join us for Driving Strategic Impact (Online) if you want to improve your effectiveness in solving strategy problems and becoming a trusted advisor for colleagues and clients.
This program is also being offered in a live online format. Learn more about Driving Strategic Impact (Live Online). To compare program formats, click here.
Please contact our Learning Solutions Specialists at execedonline@gsb.columbia.edu for a personal conversation.
In Driving Strategic Impact (Online), you will learn how to:
- Get client / organizational support for strategic initiatives
- Concretely define the scope of a strategy project
- Develop a well-structured strategic problem-solving roadmap
- Align with key stakeholders
- Rapidly move to the core issues to focus your problem-solving effort
- Efficiently gather the right information to build a relevant fact base
- Extract information from internal and external sources
- Synthesize data to drive key conclusions
- Develop high-impact recommendations
- Put your new learnings into practice on real-life strategy cases
- Manage strategy projects for maximum impact
Upon completion of this program, you will earn two credits towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn more.
This program takes you on a 12-week journey to acquiring mastery over a personal leadership competency.
You will receive:
- 12 weeks duration
- 3 hours per week
- Self-paced, high-quality, bite-sized video lectures
- Online reflections and discussion
- Opportunity to interact with a global community of executive participants
- Learn anytime, anywhere with Mentora's proprietary digital learning platform, available on both web and mobile
- Digitally-verified Certificate of Participation from Columbia Business School Executive Education and Mentora
- Access to the Mentora toolkit – tools, templates, and frameworks
Methodology
Driving Strategic Impact (Online) is based on Mentora’s scientific learning system, integrating breakthrough research in psychology, neuroscience, behavioral economics, sociology, medicine and psychotherapy, a rigorous study of great leaders and organizations, and a practical toolkit to drive tangible improvement in your personal leadership skills.
For a complete program schedule, please download the agenda.
The Driving Strategic Impact (Online) program is designed for executives of all levels who are looking to improve your effectiveness in solving strategy problems and in becoming a trusted advisor for colleagues and clients.
| Years of Management Experience | % |
|---|---|
| 20+ | 31 |
| 16-20 | 16 |
| 11-15 | 21 |
| 6-10 | 18 |
| 1-5 | 16 |
| Geographic Spread | % |
|---|---|
| Africa | 2 |
| Asia | 6 |
| Europe | 33 |
| Middle East | 9 |
| N. America | 58 |
| Oceania | 7 |
| S. America | 13 |
Upon completion of this program, you will earn three credits towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits.
This program is suitable for attendees at all executive levels.