Making Strategy Work in the Real World

This course will enable you to

• Learn what strategy really is and what role finance professionals can take in the strategy-building process of your organisation
• Understand how to use metrics to identify opportunities
• Discover how you can define your organisation’s potential and use historical trends to track opportunities
• Develop your strategy through setting targets, and learn how to use forecasting when target setting
• Explore how to implement your strategy and how to ensure that it is being upheld
• Consider different tactics that you can use to bring strategies to life and ensure that you are getting the most out of them
• Once implemented, understand how you can monitor these strategies and assess how they are performing

About the course

In businesses of all sizes, strategy plays a major role in their success. Therefore, having a recognisable strategy and being able to follow planned strategies is vital to the success of a business. People of all levels within an organisation can play a role in strategizing if they understand the importance of strategy.

This course will teach you what it means for a business to have a strategy, and how as a finance professional you can play an active part in forming, implementing and monitoring the success of that strategy over time. You will learn how to analyse trends; set targets and what tactics you can use to ensure your strategies are successful.