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Why Take The SD Course

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Workbook

    • Strategy Design Participant Workbook

  • 2

    Strategy Design Workshop Introduction

    • How The Strategy Design Course Will Elevate Your Life and Business
  • 3

    Let's Get Started

    • Meet Your Facilitator

    • Evaluating Your Current Strategic State Survey

    • An Introduction to Strategy Design

    • Getting Started Quiz
  • 4

    Module 1: Owning Your Future

    • High Returns from Good Strategy

    • Maximizing Your Return On Investment Quiz

    • Strategy Blueprint PDF

    • What Is Strategy?

    • Shifting Value Drivers

    • Strategy and Value Drivers Quiz

    • History of Strategy Design

    • Evaluating Your Current Strategy Exercise

    • Overcoming Biases

    • Understanding Biases Quiz

    • Avoiding Common Pitfalls of Biases Exercise

    • How Great Strategy is Stifled

    • Understanding the Macro View of Strategy
  • 5

    Module 2: The 15 Components of a Good Strategy

    • Establishing a Strategy Pattern

    • The 15 Components of a Good Strategy Design Resource

    • Coltivar's Strategy Design Model Resource

    • The Strategy Process and Strategy Design Model

    • Using the Strategy Blueprint

    • Circumstances: Purpose and Vision

    • Evaluating Your Purpose and Vision Quiz

    • What are Your Principles?

    • Circumstances: Market Trends

    • Market Trends Quiz

    • Examining the Impacts of Market Trends Exercise

    • Circumstances: Competitive Forces

    • Defining Your Competitive Set

    • Evaluating Your Competitive Set Exercise

    • Competitive Forces and Sets Quiz

    • Customer Centricity

    • What is Customer Experience?

    • The Ideal Customer Exercise

    • Customer Values

    • Identifying Customer Values

    • Identifying Your Customer Values Exercise

    • Circumstances: Customer Types

    • Building Customer Types Exercise

    • Customer Type Cards - Coltivar IQ Resource

    • The Power and Application of Customer Types

    • Customer Values and Types Quiz

    • Circumstances: Strategic Problem

    • Defining a Strategic Problem Quiz

    • Focus: Advantages

    • Web of Advantages

    • Understanding Advantages Quiz

    • Drawing Your Web of Advantages Exercise

    • Focus: Where and How to Compete

    • Analyzing Positional Advantages Exercise

    • Asset Advantages

    • Identifying Privileged Tradable Assets Exercise

    • Distinct Capability Advantages

    • Evaluating Distinctive Capability Advantages Exercise

    • Where and How to Compete Quiz

    • Focus: Resource Requirements and Allocation

    • Essentialism

    • Good, Better, Best

    • Evaluating Your Good, Better, Best Exercise

    • Focus: Size of the Prize

    • Resources and Size of the Prize Quiz

    • Boosting Intrinsic Value

    • Practical Means to Boost Intrinsic Value Resource

    • Measures of Value

    • Measures of Value Quiz

    • Computing Intrinsic Value Exercise

    • Focus: Rivals and Their Response

    • Referencing Your Competitive Set

    • Monitoring Your Competitive Set Exercise

    • Means: Activities

    • Understanding Activities Quiz

    • Optimizing Activities for High Impact Exercise

    • Means: Structure

    • Principles of Structure and Organizational Design Quiz

    • Why Structure is So Critical to Your Organization's Success

    • Drawing Your Organizational Structure Exercise

    • Types of Traditional Organizational Structures

    • Means: Governance

    • Decision Rights

    • Decision Making Assessment Exercise

    • Evaluating Decision Making Effectiveness

    • Work Coordination

    • Accountability

    • The Foundation of Good Governance Quiz

    • High Level Overview of IARs Resource

    • Means: Talent

    • Unlocking the Potential of Talent Quiz

    • Determining Business Critical Roles Exercise

    • Means: Capabilities

    • Understanding Capabilities Quiz
  • 6

    Module 3: Building Your Foundation for Success

    • Building Your Foundation for Success

    • Final Remarks

    • Strategy Design Comprehensive Exam