Strategy Execution for Organizational Growth
Get Ready to Challenge Your Ability to Implement Strategy in a Complex, Dynamic Market Environment
About the Program
How good is our strategy? Which markets are profitable for us? How valuable is our market positioning? How can we achieve operational excellence? WHU’s Strategy Execution for Organizational Growth Program will help you find answers to these questions. Test your strategic mind, implement a business strategy and execute it in a competitive environment. WHU’s Strategy Execution for Organizational Growth Program challenges experienced professionals to enhance their strategy implementation skills.
Program Content
WHU’s Strategy Execution for Organizational Growth Program enhances your ability to implement corporate strategy in a high-velocity and complex market environment. The Program draws on the professional experience of you and your peers and applies it in an experiential learning setting. Team effectiveness in implementing and executing strategy strongly depends on soft skills and how teams bring them together.
A glimpse of what you can expect:
This Executive Education program has been particularly developed for experienced professionals. It offers a vivid action-based learning experience of strategy making and execution. In a multiple-round simulated industry competition, participants are divided into teams, which act as board of executive directors and run their firm in a world full of uncertainty and surprises. Teams design their business strategy, present it to a supervisory board for approval and implement it. Strategy execution happens in an increasingly complex market setting of competitive strategic interaction. Round per round teams need to make decisions concerning typical business functions, such as purchasing, production, marketing & sales, finance, human resources, and R&D.
As decision-makers, you not only play the strategist’s game and try to anticipate competitors’ moves, but you also get your “hands dirty” by dealing with the nitty-gritty details of organizational alignment. You will achieve cost efficiency and operational excellence in the face of demanding customers, fierce competition, and vested stakeholder interest.
To prepare for the program you can utilize our digital learning platform which provides introductory and background materials (videos, readings, and quizzes) on the topics covered in the program. It also includes an introduction to the Business Simulation Game, which you will play during the program.
Are you a strategist? Are you ready for the challenge?
Program Format and Module Dates
This 3-day program runs at WHU Campus Düsseldorf.
Before the program, participants are required to familiarize themselves with our digital learning platform which provides introductory and background materials (videos, readings, and quizzes) on the topics covered in the program. It also includes an introduction to the Business Simulation Game, which you will play during the program. You should plan in 10 hours for this mandatory online preparation.
Module Dates
Program Benefits
The WHU program “ Strategy Execution for Organizational Growth”
- …enhances your ability to formulate and execute a business strategy in a highly competitive, complex market environment.
- …enables you to use tools of economic analysis to anticipate competitors’ actions, understand the consequences of environmental changes and make investment decisions.
- …prompts you to use financing tools to leverage your business and use cost and productivity analyses to optimize operational performance.
- …challenges your leadership and management skills to deal with the increasing complexity of your firm (interrelated business functions) and accomplish multiple tasks under severe time pressure.
Upon completion, you will be awarded a WHU Executive Education Certificate, a recognized mark of your commitment to growth, leadership, and lifelong learning, issued by one of Europe’s top business schools.
Participant Profile
- Experienced professionals from all business functions, general managers, and business owners who are interested in strategy implementation.
- This program is particularly suitable for past participants of our “Strategic Decision-Making Program”.
- Participants should have at least 8 years of professional experience and 2 years of experience making strategic or tactical decisions.
- Business background is not required.
The minimum number of participants for this program is 12.
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