STRATEGY EXECUTION MASTERCLASS

The ability to translate and implement strategy in a coordinated way across an organization, at the speed of business, has never been more crucial than it is today. With digital business and a connected world, change is the new normal and resources are precious. Effective strategy execution gives organizations the capacity to adapt and change, and it lies at the heart of successful transformations.  The process from strategy formulation to execution should flow seamlessly, with transparency and accountability from end-to-end, and be treated with the same importance as any other critical function. This necessitates a fundamental shift in how we perceive and enact strategic change, moving beyond delivering isolated initiatives to formulating a unified response to strategy. 

 This highly interactive, two-day Strategy Execution Masterclass provides a hands-on immersion in leading edge, proven approaches for executing strategy, leveraging a holistic business perspective for decision-making. This special offering will be taught in person by recognized global thought leader, educator, and author Whynde Kuehn. Through the lens of a case study for a global organization, participants will learn and apply reusable approaches and tools to inform and translate strategy, and align it with execution. This masterclass is one-of-a-kind and provides a rare opportunity for participants to learn global best practices through collaboration with industry experts and peers.  

The following topics will be covered across the two-day masterclass.

• Strategy Execution Challenges and Opportunities
• A Comprehensive Approach to Strategy Execution 
• Leveraging Business Blueprints for Strategy Execution 
• Learning and Applying the Techniques:

                          1- Articulating and Refining Strategic Direction 

                          2- Translating Strategy into Action

                             - Informing Strategic Options 

                             - Assessing the Impacts of Strategy

                             - Assessing Business Capabilities 

                             - Creating a Strategic Roadmap and Shaping Initiatives 

                          3- Informing Investment Decision-Making 

                          4- Aligning Strategy and Execution Continuously

• Putting the Ideas into Practice: Next Step Planning to Enhance Your Strategy Execution 

After the Strategy Execution Masterclass, participants will be able to:

• Articulate an approach for comprehensive, interdisciplinary end-to-end strategy to execution that ensures the resulting portfolio of work delivers on strategic direction and business value, continuously adapts to changing business conditions, and increases the overall effectiveness and agility of the organization. 
• Develop new skills and apply repeatable, best practice approaches for holistically articulating strategy, assessing strategic options, understanding strategy impact, translating strategy into coordinated business change, shaping portfolios and initiatives, and aligning strategy with execution. 
• Leverage common business blueprints to enable holistic, cross-organizational decision-making across the strategy to execution life cycle.
• Bring reusable tools and concepts back to their organizations including templates, starter business blueprint content, and an end-to-end strategy execution case study example 
• Take practical next steps to move into action on the strategy execution concepts presented as well as determine how to continue the learning journey for themselves and for their teams. 

Leaders and professionals who would like to learn how to formulate, execute, and align strategy in a more effective way, with improved business outcomes. This includes those working in strategy, strategic planning, portfolio management, transformation and change, and delivery across all industries and sectors, including corporations, governments, non-governmental organizations, and universities. This masterclass also provides the opportunity for strategy, transformation, and planning teams to build a common foundation of knowledge and practice to collaborate on cross-organizational strategy implementation.

All masterclass participants will receive a complimentary, 

signed copy of the book Strategy to Reality.