OPEX & Strategy workshops connect operational excellence principles with strategic business objectives. These workshops help leaders align improvement initiatives with organizational strategy, manage strategic risks, and drive transformational change through operational excellence.
Value Proposition
Target Audience: Senior managers, strategic planners, operational excellence leaders, and professionals responsible for aligning improvement initiatives with business strategy.
Value Based Strategy
Workshop Description: This workshop focuses on developing and implementing strategies that maximize value creation for all stakeholders. Participants will learn how to identify, measure, and enhance value drivers through operational excellence initiatives.
Understand the principles of value-based management – Identify and analyze key value drivers in organizations – Develop strategies that maximize stakeholder value – Align operational excellence initiatives with value creation – Implement value-based performance measurement systems
Who Should Attend: Senior managers and executives – Strategic planners – Business unit leaders – Operational excellence directors
Workshop Outline:
- Value Driver Analysis
- Identifying organizational value drivers
- Quantitative and qualitative assessment methods
- Value driver trees and mapping
- Prioritizing value drivers
- Strategy Development for Value Creation
- Value proposition design
- Competitive positioning for value
- Business model innovation
- Value-based strategic planning
- Operational Excellence for Value Enhancement
- Aligning improvement initiatives with value drivers
- Process excellence for value creation
- Quality as a value driver
- Innovation and continuous improvement
- Value-Based Performance Management
- Developing value-based metrics
- Balanced scorecard approaches
- Economic value added (EVA) and other value measures
- Incentive systems for value creation
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Strategy Implementation
Workshop Description: This workshop addresses the critical challenge of strategy execution. Participants will learn proven methodologies and tools to translate strategic plans into operational reality, ensuring successful implementation of strategic initiatives.
Understand common barriers to strategy implementation – Apply structured frameworks for strategy deployment – Develop effective governance systems for strategic initiatives – Create alignment between strategy and operational activities – Implement performance management systems that drive strategic execution
Who Should Attend: Executives and senior managers – Strategy implementation teams – Department heads and directors – Project and program managers
Workshop Outline:
- Strategy Deployment Frameworks
- Hoshin Kanri (Policy Deployment)
- Balanced Scorecard implementation
- OKRs (Objectives and Key Results)
- Strategy deployment matrix
- Governance for Strategic Initiatives
- Portfolio management approaches
- Program and project governance
- Decision-making frameworks
- Resource allocation models
- Creating Strategic Alignment
- Cascading objectives and metrics
- Role clarity and accountability
- Cross-functional coordination
- Change management for alignment
- Performance Management for Execution
- Strategy review processes
- Performance dialogues
- Corrective action systems
- Continuous strategy refinement
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Strategic Risk Management
Workshop Description: This workshop focuses on identifying, assessing, and managing risks that could impact strategic objectives. Participants will learn how to integrate risk management into strategic planning and operational excellence initiatives.
Understand the principles of strategic risk management – Identify and assess risks to strategic objectives – Develop effective risk mitigation strategies – Integrate risk management into operational excellence – Create a risk-aware organizational culture
Who Should Attend: Risk managers and officers – Strategic planners – Senior executives – Operational excellence leaders
Workshop Outline:
- Strategic Risk Identification
- Environmental scanning techniques
- Scenario planning and analysis
- Stakeholder risk perception assessment
- Emerging risk identification
- Risk Assessment and Prioritization
- Qualitative and quantitative assessment methods
- Risk mapping and heat maps
- Impact and likelihood evaluation
- Risk interdependency analysis
- Risk Mitigation Strategies
- Risk response options (avoid, transfer, mitigate, accept)
- Control design and implementation
- Business continuity planning
- Crisis management preparation
- Risk Governance and Culture
- Risk oversight structures
- Risk reporting and communication
- Building risk awareness
- Continuous risk monitoring
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Strategy Diamond
Workshop Description: Based on the Strategy Diamond framework developed by Hambrick and Fredrickson, this workshop provides a comprehensive approach to strategy formulation. Participants will learn how to develop coherent strategies with aligned elements that create competitive advantage.
Understand the five elements of the Strategy Diamond framework – Develop coherent strategies with internal consistency – Align operational capabilities with strategic positioning – Evaluate strategic options using structured criteria – Create implementation plans for strategy execution
Who Should Attend: Risk Senior executives and directors – Strategic planning teams – Business unit leaders – Consultants and advisors
Workshop Outline:
- Defining Strategic Arenas
- Market segment selection
- Geographic scope decisions
- Product/service portfolio choices
- Value chain positioning
- Vehicles and Differentiators
- Organic growth vs. partnerships/acquisitions
- Organic growth vs. partnerships/acquisitions
- Competitive differentiation approaches
- Sustainable advantage creation
- Staging and Economic Logic
- Implementation sequencing
- Resource allocation priorities
- Profit models and economic drivers
- Return on investment approaches
- Strategy Diamond Application
- Case studies and examples
- Strategy evaluation using the Diamond
- Refining strategy for coherence
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Disruptive Strategy
Workshop Description: This workshop explores how organizations can develop and implement disruptive strategies that challenge industry norms and create new market spaces. Participants will learn frameworks for identifying disruptive opportunities and building the capabilities to execute them.
Understand the principles of disruptive innovation and strategy – Identify potential disruption opportunities and threats – Apply frameworks for creating market-changing strategies – Develop organizational capabilities for disruptive execution – Manage the risks associated with disruptive strategies
Who Should Attend: Innovation leaders and managers – Strategic planners – Senior executives – Entrepreneurs within organizations
Workshop Outline:
- Identifying Disruptive Opportunities
- Jobs-to-be-done framework
- Non-consumption analysis
- Technology S-curves and inflection points
- Business model innovation opportunities
- Frameworks for Disruptive Strategy
- Blue Ocean Strategy
- Value innovation logic
- Platform and ecosystem strategies
- Digital disruption approaches
- Building Disruptive Capabilities
- Ambidextrous organization design
- Innovation labs and incubators
- Rapid experimentation methodologies
- Talent and culture for disruption
- Managing Disruptive Execution
- Resource allocation for disruption
- Metrics for disruptive initiatives
- Managing cannibalization concerns
- Scaling disruptive innovations
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Global Strategy
Workshop Description: This workshop focuses on developing and implementing strategies for global markets. Participants will learn how to navigate international complexity, adapt operational excellence approaches for different markets, and build global competitive advantage.
- Understand frameworks for global strategy development
- Evaluate international market opportunities and entry strategies
- Adapt operational excellence approaches for different cultural contexts
- Develop global-local balance in operations and strategy
- Build organizational capabilities for global execution
Who Should Attend: International business managers – Global strategy teams – Executives with international responsibilities – Export and international trade managers
Workshop Outline:
- International Market Assessment
- Market attractiveness analysis
- Political, economic, social, technological (PEST) analysis
- Competitive landscape evaluation
- Risk assessment in global contexts
- Market Entry and Expansion Strategies
- Entry mode selection
- Partnerships and alliances
- Organic growth approaches
- Acquisition strategies
- Operational Excellence in Global Contexts
- Standardization vs. adaptation decisions
- Global process management
- Quality systems across borders
- Knowledge transfer and best practices
- Building Global Capabilities
- Global leadership development
- Cross-cultural team effectiveness
- Global governance structures
- Global performance management
