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"Strategic Thinking for Competitive Advantage"
May 13, 2008

Presented by Rich Horwath, President, Strategic Thinking Institute

As an HR executive, you face the dual challenge of leading the strategic efforts for the HR function and ensuring that your managers are building their strategic thinking skills to profitably grow the business. Adding to your challenges are these research findings:

  • 95% of a company’s employees don’t understand its strategy (Kaplan).
  • Only 4% of leaders at all levels in a company are strategic (Torbert).
  • 90% of directors and vice presidents have had no strategy training (London).
  • Companies with a clearly defined strategy outperformed those without one by 304% in profit margin, 332% in total sales and 833% in total return to shareholders over a 10-year period (Nohria).

Rich’s program will help you…

  • apply the three disciplines of strategic thinking to your daily work.
  • create differentiated strategy to grow profits.
  • improve strategic decision making to maximize productivity.
  • discover four sources for generating new business insights.
  • draw a Strategy Profile to visualize your strategy versus competitors.
  • build an Activity System Map to provide an overarching picture of all the strategic and tactical elements of your business.
  • use models to visualize key business insights and communicate strategy.
  • design a StrategyPrint to create a real-time strategic action plan.



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