Strategic Business Planning

Scheduled Sessions

Course overview

• This highly practical and interactive program will provide participants with a clear framework to prepare a strategic business plan and to tailor it to the needs of the organisation or business unit.
• The program examines the key strategic business areas that a successful plan must consider, plus taking into account equally important issues such as core values, purpose and mission statements. In addition, participants will gain insights into competitive strategies, value chains and life cycles, and come away from the program with a greater facility to understand how their organisations really work.
• It is advisable that participants wishing to undertake the assessment ensure that they have access to the financial records and business plans for their business in order to complete the assessment.

Key benefits

• It is advisable that participants wishing to undertake the assessment ensure that they have access to the financial records and business plans for their business in order to complete the assessment.

Who Should attend

• ·Business unit managers, functional and front line managers expected to be involved in strategic business planning
• ·Small business owners/managers
• ·Project managers
• ·Public sector employees involved in corporatisation
• ·Professional practice personnel.
• It is advisable that participants wishing to undertake the assessment ensure that they have access to the financial records and business plans for their business in order to complete the assessment.

Qualification Pathway

Learning outcomes

• Conduct an environmental (internal and external) analysis of a business.
• Articualte the aims, objectives and key aspects of a strategic business plan, which takes into account the organisational vision and mission.
• Develop a strategic plan and a business plan based on the strategic plan.
• Implement the strategic and business plans.
• Monitor the success of the strategic and business plans and respond to performance.

Course content

• The strategic planning process
• Core values, purpose and mission
• Situation analysis and competitive strategies
• The value chain and lifecycles
• Porter's five forces
• The writing process
• People management issues
• Monitoring the plan simulation

Assessment details

• You may achieve a Statement of Attainment if you choose to be assessed for this module.
• Assessment is by workplace project.
• Assessment is optional.
• Please note assessment incurs a fee unless enrolled in a qualification.

Australian Qualifications Framework level

• Level 6

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