Implementing Winning Strategies: The Breakthrough Strategic Learning Process
Implement new strategic directions by addressing a challenge you are currently facing within your role, outline the choices you have, and return to work with a tangible plan to execute your strategy.
In today’s dynamic world, the old static planning methods no longer work. The key to success is to create an adaptive enterprise capable of generating winning strategies and renewing those strategies as the environment changes.
Implementing Winning Strategies offers a set of practical tools to achieve this kind of organizational agility. The program introduces you to the Strategic Learning Process, a unique 4-step model which has been battle tested and is being applied successfully by many global companies and not-for-profit organizations to create and implement winning strategies repeatedly over time.
The Strategic Learning Process
Strategic Learning is an insight-to-action process. The four linked action steps move in a cycle (see picture):
- Learn about the external environment and your organization’s own realities
- Focus by making choices about where you will compete and how you will win
- Align your people and your business system behind your strategy
- Execute faster and better than your competitors
That takes the firm back to the Learn step, thus creating an ongoing cycle of learning and renewal.
During the program, you will benefit from the opportunity to apply your learning to an important personal case with the help and insight of faculty and peers.
For a complete program schedule, download the agenda.
Please contact our Learning Solutions Specialists at +1 212-854-3395 for a personal conversation to learn more.
* Program location and session times may vary. While the majority of our in-person programs run on campus, some programs may run off-campus in New York City.
You will learn how to apply the market-tested Strategic Learning methodology: the four-step cycle designed to create and sustain winning performance. During the program, you will be given a workbook of practical tools you can use immediately upon returning to your organization.
"We believe that our job is to bring you the best ideas on strategic leadership, together with powerful tools to turn them into action. That is what we aim to do in Implementing Winning Strategies."
–Willie Pietersen and Peter Meola, Faculty Directors
Summary of Benefits
- Learn to conduct a Situation Analysis: a powerful method for creating insights into the external environment and your company’s own realities
- Improve your ability to foresee change and its implications
- Create a “Winning Proposition” that differentiates your organization and provides superior value for your customers and shareholders
- Learn how to win hearts and minds of your people and align your business system behind your strategy
- Master the golden rules of effective implementation, and leadership of change
- Understand how to monitor and measure the success of your strategy, and how to apply rapid corrective actions
Upon completion of this program, you will earn five credits towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn more.
Before the program begins, participants prepare by meeting with superiors and peers to identify and document a strategic challenge. This pressing issue becomes the foundation for the participant’s personal case, which they discuss and address throughout the program by applying the Strategic Learning Process.
Sample Session Titles
- Understanding the universal forces of change and their implications
- Overview of Strategic Learning: Comparison with other methods of strategy
- Winning at insight through your Situation Analysis
- Making strategic choices and developing your Winning Proposition and Key Priorities
- Driving your economic engine
- Mobilizing the power of organizational alignment
- Mastering the Golden Rules for Effective Implementation
- Leading change and renewal
For a complete program schedule download the agenda.
Implementing Winning Strategies is designed for executives of all levels responsible for strategic planning, with primary responsibility for making the changes necessary to enable effective execution of strategy or those with P&L responsibility who seek to become more strategic in their thinking.
Columbia Business School alumni and up to four of their colleagues are eligible for a 25 percent tuition benefit for this program. More on the Alumni Tuition Benefit.
| Years of Management Experience | % |
|---|---|
| 20+ | 14 |
| 16-20 | 10 |
| 11-15 | 27 |
| 6-10 | 22 |
| 1-5 | 27 |
Upon completion of this program, you will earn credits towards a Certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits.
This program is designed for executives of all levels responsible for strategic planning, with primary responsibility for making the changes necessary to enable effective execution of strategy or those with P&L responsibility who seek to become more strategic in their thinking.