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

• Participants will gain stronger insights into completive strategies, value chains and life cycles, and come away from the program with a greater facility to understand how their organisation really works.

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. (APS5 to EL2)
• Professional practice personnel.

Qualification Pathway

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.

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.
• The value chain.
• Competitive strategies.
• Porter’s five forces.
• Life cycles.
• The writing process.
• People management issues.
• Monitoring the plan.
• Strategic 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.
• The fee for assessment is $200 per competency.
• Assessment is optional.

Australian Qualifications Framework level

• Level 6

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