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Business: Marketing_and_Sales
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Society: Organizations
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Business: Telecommunications
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| Contact |
PO Box 181853
Arlington, TX 76096
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| Description |
Seminar Outline Dale D. Fodness, Ph.D.
Principal, Business Decision Resources
Asst. Professor & Program Director, Marketing
University of Dallas Graduate School of Management
Visiting Professor of Marketing
Helsinki School of Economics & Business Administration
Day 1: 8:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Thinking Styles and Tools
Recognize how increased self-awareness can lead to better thinking
Determine your thinking style using the Thinking Styles Inventory
Identify strengths & weaknesses of thinking styles in strategy formulation and
implementation
Understand how to leverage collective thinking styles to improve strategic team
performance
Practical Creativity
Recognize when strategic challenges are not amenable to standard answers and thus require unique approaches
Generate wide-ranging possibilities to come up with new solutions and approaches to current and potential challenges and opportunities
Identify and apply effective creativity techniques for various strategic needs
Managing Complexity
Describe attributes of a complex system
Explain systems thinking and how it relates to strategy making
List tools for managing complexity
Apply cause-and-effect diagramming to strategic challenges
Strategic Decision Making
Identify and decision making principles and techniques to ensure decision processes produce the best strategy possible
Understand quality issues related to strategic decisions and the decision process,
and how to apply them to improve decision making
Effectively select the best option from a limited number of possible strategies
Day 2: 8:30 A.M.- 5:00 P.M.
Profiling Strategy
Design and conduct a comprehensive, integrated strategic analysis to identify trends, recognize vulnerabilities and take advantage of opportunities
Identify and select break-through strategies to build and maintain a strong competitive position
Follow a systematic process for creating visual displays of strategy
Positioning Strategy
Identify the five competitive forces that shape every industry & market
Use Five Forces Analysis to assess competitive forces in your industry
Use the Five Forces Analysis to identify effective strategies to raise your
profitability, power, and competitive position in an industry
Summary & Wrap-Up
Define what it means to think strategically
Identify and apply the elements of strategic thinking to understand the range of issues and variables that impact business success and to make better strategic decisions
Demonstrate the key competencies of strategic thinking
Accurately differentiate the role of strategic thinking from that of strategic planning
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| Additional Information |
Dates / Location: August 22 - 23, 2005; University of Dallas, Plano Campus, 2301 Ohio Drive, Plano, Texas
Fee: $795 includes Certificate of Completion, seminar materials, and refreshments both days.
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