Thinking and Acting Strategically as CFO (Currently Unavailable)

Author: Blair Cook

Are you working in finance and want to play a larger role in the strategy development process of your organization? Perhaps you see an opportunity to formalize strategy development and execution but aren’t quite sure how to go about it?

This strategic management course covers all of the important topics of strategic management from developing mission, vision, and values; to conducting situational analysis; to formulating strategy; to executing strategy. This course also ties each of the strategic management phases together with facilitation tools and techniques that will allow the learner to make a valuable strategic contribution to their organization.

Publication Date: April 2021

Topics Covered

• Approaches to strategy development
• Mission, vision, and values
• Assessing current state
• Strategic alternative formulation
• Executing strategy and keeping it on track
• Conclusions and the strategic management toolkit

Learning Objectives

• Identify how to establish a strategic management process at your organization
• Recognize how to facilitate the development and implementation of strategy at your organization
• Identify how to play an important and leadership role in strategic planning and management of your organization
• Recognize which approach is characterized by a formalized approach to strategy management
• Describe the purpose of an organization
• Identify which tool is useful for documenting factors related to the trends of the industry
• Recognize the metrics which would most likely be associated with the Learning and Growth perspective using the balance scorecard

Level
Basic

Instructional Method
Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study
Business Management & Organization (1 hour)

Program Prerequisites
None

Advance Preparation
None