Creating Breakthrough Strategies: 4 Steps to Winning

Outside-In thinking — the ability to shift your mentality from an internally driven “make and sell” approach to sensing external environments and responding to customer needs — is a key to success, particularly in today’s turbulent competitive environment. And yet most organizations lament that they are not good at it. Why is it so hard to pull off?

The key to success is to create an adaptive enterprise capable of generating winning strategies and renewing those strategies as the environment changes. As a result, the ability to learn faster than your competitors will be your only sustainable competitive advantage.

Creating Breakthrough Strategies: 4 Steps to Winning offers a set of practical tools to achieve this kind of organizational agility. The program introduces you to Columbia's proprietary Strategic Learning Process, developed by Professor Willie Pietersen. The process offers a unique 4-step model that 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: 1) Learn about the external environment and your organization’s own realities; 2) Focus by making choices about where you will compete and how you will win; 3) Align your people and your business system behind your strategy; 4) 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 Us

Please contact our Learning Solutions Specialists at +1 212-854-3395 for a personal conversation to learn more.