Course Details

Corporate leaders must be willing to implement sustainability in their core business, i.e. sustainability has to be embedded as a part of the business strategy and has to be reviewed in particular as to what extent it is part of the business’s purpose.

A winning Value Creation Strategy is essential to define where and how a company can excel in systemic change, sustaining the core, creating the new and delivering fast.

Value Creation: Developing Strategy and Decision Making training course designed to provide the delegates with skills and knowledge using appropriate theory and principles, interactive examples, and applications of various techniques relevant to assessing value-creating strategies.

Participants attending Value Creation: Developing Strategy and Decision Making training course will:

Identify your strategic challenge and use the diverse experience of your peers to help solve it.
Master the strategic skills to identify, create, retain and renew sources of competitive advantage.
Understand the critical factors to consider when making investment decisions
Understand how to incorporate risk and uncertainty into investment decisions.
Understand how reliable are the available data and how this uncertainty is likely to affect the range of results.
Learn to evaluate the value created through merger and acquisitions or other business activities?
Understand assessment of value creation strategies

Value Creation: Developing Strategy and Decision Making course is ideal for:

Senior executives and functional managers
Business professionals working within the strategy teams
Treasurers, corporate planning, and business development professionals
Sales and marketing professionals
HR professionals

Course Outline

5 days course

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Value creation and decision making

The value-creating company
Corporate value and shareholder value
A dynamic perspective of business
The agency problem and corporate governance.

Assessment of Business Performance

Ratio analysis and business performance
Management’s point of view
Owners’ point of view
Lenders’ point of view
Ratios as a system – pyramids of ratios
Economic value added (EVA)

Managing value creation P1

Workforce management: Invoke innovative approaches to shape the workforce to enhance value creation
Workforce strategy: Detail the impact of a strong HR strategic focus on value creation
Barriers to value creation: Prepare and plan for innovative work processes and possible barriers to value creation

Managing value creation P2

Using employee data: Explain how employee data supports value creation
Knowledge management: Detail the importance of knowledge management in the strategic planning process
Big Data management: Explain the concept of ‘Big Data and its application to strategic data analysis
Data security: Explain the importance of adequate data security
Cyber incident response plan: Draft an effective cyber incident response plan

Marketing and financial cornerstones

Marketing cornerstones: Explain the marketing cornerstones necessary to create value.
Understanding customer behaviour: Identity, analyse and apply the customer decision-making process to create value.
Design and implement a customer-driven strategy: Design and implement a customer-driven marketing strategy
Financial cornerstones: Identify and apply the guiding principles of finance that supports value creation
Measure value creation : Outline the process for measuring value creation

Value Creation: Developing Strategy and Decision Making

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