Strategic Thinking and Leadership for Engineers

This course will become your go-to resource for helping you and your team raise your game, focusing on the most important strategic activities you can to drive performance for your company. It will demystify all of the confusion about what strategy and strategic thinking does, and does not, mean. You’ll walk away with concrete tools you and your team can use to redefine the focus of your work, set and keep strategic priorities, and deal with the pressures and challenges of thinking and acting more strategically.
This course will introduce you to the models for strategic thinking and leadership for engineers, and will take you through the steps needed in strategically starting and managing chain project within your organization.

The course will also assist you in making the chain analysis a continuous process within your organization, explaining how to generate participation and commitment among your colleagues. Ultimately this course is another step in making strategic thinking and leadership a fun activity and an open exercise within your organization and to connect it with your innovation effort.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Identify the strategic differentiation and capabilities that set your company apart
• Organize work across three organizational systems, and protect your most competitive work
• Define your role to make maximum strategic impact on your company’s performance
• Deal with the pressures and challenges of doing more strategic work.

Who Should Attend?

• Anyone willing to start a strategic thinking initiative within their organisation.
• Entrepreneurs and start-ups seeking to understand how the activities they perform sustain their competitive advantage.
• Business students and practitioners interested in understanding the organizational implications of performing a value chain project.

Delivery method: This will include combine lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will also understand the theoretical and practical knowledge of the topic.

Venue: London

Fee: 

Duration: 1 week

Course Date: November 21st – 25th, 2022