Management

How to Set Strategic Goals and How to Reach Them

Video course
3 hours 17 minutes
Started: 4979
Rating: 90%

You will learn how to…

  • Set strategic goals
  • Create plans and strategies for achieving your goals
  • Analyze competitive forces in your industry
  • Identify and build competitive advantage

Dominic Houlder

World-Renowned Strategic Management Expert

Lecturer's bio

Dominic Houlder is one of the international leading experts in strategy with more than 25 years of relevant experience. He helps major B2B service firms to address the challenge of integrating capabilities into client solutions. 

Dominic focuses on client relationships seen through the lens of strategy and connectivity within the firm. He is currently working with PWC, G4S, Eversheds, SAP and Saatchi & Saatchi. As well as teaching on MBA programs Dominic is Academic Director for Global Leadership Consortium, which enables peer learning for senior management worldwide from Emirates Airlines, GEA, Mars and Oracle.

Dominic has written for Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review and the LBS Business Strategy Review among other publications. His two books are Strategy and Mindfulness and Money.

What is this course about?

This course is devoted to strategic planning. You will learn how to set strategic goals and create plans that will ensure you reach them. Dominic Houlder will teach you when and how to use different strategic tools and frameworks: the Strategic Staircase, the Five Forces, the Value Chain and others. You will learn how to understand competitive forces in your industry and how to use strategic resources to obtain competitive advantage. Thanks to an exciting mix of proven theories and real life examples you will be able to see that turbulent times are rich in opportunity and take your company through the storms to achieve competitive success.

Who is this course for?

  • Strategic planning managers
  • Managers at all levels
  • Executives
  • Business consultants
  • Marketing specialists
  • Entrepreneurs

List of lectures

  1. Defining the "What" Free

    21 min
  2. The "How" of the Strategy Free

    9 min
  3. The Strategic Staircase Free

    15 min
  4. Emergent and Deliberate Strategies Free

    15 min
  5. The Drivers of Profitable Growth

    16 min
  6. The Challenge of Value Capture

    19 min
  7. Understanding Competitive Forces

    16 min
  8. Mastering Competitive Forces

    9 min
  9. Strategic Resources as Keys to Success

    11 min
  10. Winning on Cost

    10 min
  11. Succeeding through Differentiation

    9 min
  12. Ecosystem Advantage

    11 min
  13. Stretching the Strategic Frame

    14 min
  14. Disruptive Innovation

    9 min
  15. Red and Blue Ocean Strategies Exam

    13 min

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