Interactive Workshop - Clarifying and Aligning Strategy

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Apply what you have learned...

This workshop will focus on the stages that most organizations simply don’t get right, wasting valuable time, resources, and dollars – ultimately jeopardizing their ability to succeed. 

Learn how to set a strategic destination for your organization, decompose it into manageable
components, create a value proposition, select a strategy, and then articulate it inside the framework of the strategy map. Palladium’s most recent cases will be incorporated while hands on exercises will give participants invaluable experience with tools and techniques ensuring learning points are fully understood and can be translated into each unique situation.

Workshop Outline

I. Develop the Strategy

Delegates will be quickly immersed in the strategic development process and learn how each of
the steps builds upon one another in creating an integrated strategy. Creating effective visions and missions are covered as is the “value gap.” The discussion will review different value propositions, how they are created, and how they are used to determine the type of strategy an organization chooses. The module will wrap up with a presentation of generic strategies and illustrate how they are translated into an organization’s value chain and ultimately the framework of the strategy map.

Exercise: Decomposing the value gap

II. Translate the Strategy

With the key aspects of the strategy developed, participants will learn how to translate the strategy into the architecture of the strategy map. Perspectives, themes, and linked objectives will be discussed. Participants will be given an opportunity to review and discuss a variety of different strategy maps as well as compare and contrast key variations.

Exercise: Creating a strategy map

III. Align the Organization

Once the strategy map is built, alignment is achieved by cascading the parent level strategy map
to subordinate business and support units. In this module, participants will learn about the three
key methods to cascading the strategy as well as the tools and meetings used to gain and maintain alignment in organizations. Participants will review cases of successfully cascaded strategies and discuss their own alignment situations.

Exercise: Completing an alignment matrix

From theory, to practice, to application...

Attend all three days and maximize your educational experience!