Training — Strategic Management

Strategic Management Programme

A role-based programme for managers and executives who own strategy execution within their function or business unit — grounded in the same competitive-intelligence and strategic-management training behind StratBIC's advisory practice.

Programme at a Glance

Strategic Management Programme — At a Glance

Target Audience

Senior managers, department heads, and executives responsible for translating corporate strategy into execution within their function or business unit.

Entry Requirements

Best suited to participants with existing management responsibility for a function, department, or business unit. [CONTENT REQUIRED: confirm any minimum prerequisite]

Business Need Addressed

Strategy formulated at the top frequently loses coherence by the time it reaches functional and business-unit execution — this programme closes that gap.

Delivery Format

[CONTENT REQUIRED: confirm delivery format]

Duration

[CONTENT REQUIRED: confirm programme duration]

Cohort Size

[CONTENT REQUIRED: confirm cohort size]

Learning Pathway(s)

Targeted Upskilling combined with Hands-On Guidance — applying strategic-management frameworks directly to participants' own business-unit strategy.

Facilitator Credential

Senior Business Strategy Professional (SBSP™), The Strategy Institute, and an MBA in Strategic Management & Competitive Intelligence, École de Guerre Économique, Paris. [CONTENT REQUIRED: confirm additional facilitators/guest experts, if any]

Learning Objectives & Competency Outcomes

What Participants Learn and Leave With

Learning Objectives

Understand core strategic-management and competitive-positioning frameworks.
Use competitive and economic intelligence to inform strategic decisions.
Translate corporate strategy into functional or business-unit priorities.
Align teams and resources behind a strategic direction.
Track strategic performance using structured governance tools.

Competency Outcomes

Working command of core strategic-management frameworks.
Ability to translate strategy into functional execution.
Structured approach to organisational alignment behind strategic priorities.
Confidence using performance-management tools to track strategic execution.

Curriculum

Illustrative Module Outline

Six illustrative modules, grounded in the strategy, finance, mining, and AI domain knowledge already established across StratBIC's advisory practice.

Strategic Management Fundamentals

Core concepts and frameworks for formulating and managing strategy at the business-unit level.

Competitive Positioning & Business Models

Analysing competitive position and business-model choices that support it.

Competitive & Economic Intelligence for Strategy

Using structured intelligence gathering to inform strategic decisions, not assumption.

Strategy Execution & Organisational Alignment

Translating strategic direction into functional priorities and aligning teams and resources behind it.

Performance Management (Balanced Scorecard/OKRs)

Structured tools for tracking strategic execution and performance.

Leading Strategic Change

Leading a function or business unit through strategic change with clarity and buy-in.

Practical Learning

Practical Exercises, Tools & Templates

Case Exercises

Strategic-management cases applied to real business-unit and functional contexts.

Structured Templates

Strategic-alignment and performance-tracking templates participants adapt to their own function.

Scenario Simulations

Simulation exercises for strategic trade-off decisions under competing priorities.

Assessment & Completion

How the Programme Is Assessed and Completed

Assessment Method

Applied strategy-execution plan for the participant's own function or business unit, evaluated against structured criteria. [CONTENT REQUIRED: confirm assessment method]

Completion & Certification Pathway

Participants receive a StratBIC Certificate of Completion. This programme draws on frameworks referenced by bodies such as The Strategy Institute but does not itself confer an external certification. [VALIDATION REQUIRED: confirm any certification/accreditation partnership before publishing]

From Classroom to Workplace

Applying the Learning Back at Work

Workplace Application Plan

Participants build a strategy-execution plan for their own function or business unit during the programme, intended for direct application afterward.

Participant Outcomes

Stronger command of strategic-management frameworks; greater confidence translating strategy into functional execution.

Organisational Outcomes

Better alignment between corporate strategy and business-unit execution; more structured tracking of strategic performance.

Follow-Up Support

[CONTENT REQUIRED: confirm follow-up support offering]

Measuring Impact

Illustrative Evaluation Metrics

The metrics below are illustrative examples of how impact could be tracked — not commitments to specific results.

Participant self-assessment of strategic-management confidence, pre- and post-programme.
Completion rate and quality of the applied strategy-execution plan.
Where tracked by the organisation, adoption of the performance-management tools taught.

Frequently Asked Questions

What to Know Before You Enrol

Who should attend this programme?

Senior managers, department heads, and executives who own strategy execution within a function or business unit.

How is this different from StratBIC's strategic-management advisory work?

This is a training programme that builds strategic-management capability within your teams; StratBIC's advisory practice works directly on a specific strategic mandate. Many clients combine both.

Does this programme lead to an external strategy certification?

No. The programme draws on frameworks referenced by recognised strategy bodies but currently leads to a StratBIC Certificate of Completion, not a third-party certification. [VALIDATION REQUIRED]

Can this programme be delivered in-house?

In-house delivery is an option we structure around your context. [CONTENT REQUIRED: confirm in-house delivery terms]