This course provides practical advice for managers in charge of shaping and executing organizational strategy. The course includes tips for analyzing opportunities, challenges, and the potential consequences of high-level action plans. It also addresses identification of broad patterns and trends, creative thinking, analysis of complex information, and prioritization of actions.

Strategic Thinking

• Understand what strategic thinking is and why it's valuable.
• Recognize the personal traits, behaviors and attitudes, and cognitive capacities that strategic thinkers demonstrate.
• View strategic thinking as a process.
• Apply seven strategic thinking skills- seeing the big picture; clarifying strategic objectives; identifying relationships, patterns, and trends; thinking creatively; analyzing information; prioritizing your actions; and making trade-offs.