Strategy Implementation
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Strategy Implementation at Coursera Overview
Duration | 19 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Strategy Implementation at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Course 3 of 4 in the Strategic Management and Innovation Specialization
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Approx. 19 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish, Romanian
Strategy Implementation at Coursera Course details
- Even a thoroughly developed business strategy may fail if you don't pay enough attention to its implementation. This rings particularly true with strategies based on innovation or implemented in complex or fast-changing environments.
- In the 20th century successful implementation leveraged stability and typically proceeded through hierarchy and control. Today the key is to stay vibrant and able to quickly respond to trends in competition and technology while not losing sight of the strategic objective. In this course we'll build a toolbox of techniques to execute today's business strategies to help them succeed.
- After completing this course, you'll be able to:
- - Create objectives and goals to guide strategy implementation
- - Identify organizational structures that fit particular strategies
- - Understand how to leverage company culture in implementation
- - Describe how to communicate the strategy so that the organization "gets" it
- - Detect and mitigate risks to implementation
Strategy Implementation at Coursera Curriculum
Course Intro. Translating Strategy Into Goals and Metrics
Introduction into Strategy Implementation
Performance Management Systems
Balanced Scorecard
OKR
Objectives and Measures
Samsung and Apple in China, 2013
Metrics at Nonprofits
Metrics at Zappos
Module 1 Slides
Introduction
Performance Management Systems
Aligning Strategy and Organizational Structure
Module Intro
Lesson 1 Intro
Mechanistic and Organic Structures
Relationship of Structure and Strategy
Dimensions of Structure
Lesson 2 Intro
Functional Structure
Divisional Structure
Matrix Structure
Network Structure
Lesson 3 Intro
Choosing Business Unit Structure Based on Strategic Objectives
Autonomous Units
Ambidexterity
Detecting and Reacting to Change
Module Conclusion
Virgin vs. Apple
Structure and Strategy at Toyota
Flat Structures
Ambidexterity
Module 2 Slides
Why Structure Matters in Strategy Implementation
Structuring the Organization
Structuring Business Units
Communicating the Strategy within the Organization
Module Intro
Lesson 1 Intro
What to Communicate
How to Communicate
Strategic Consensus
Lesson 2 Intro
Horizontal Communication
Collaboration and Self-Organizing Teams
Lesson 3 Intro
Tools for Upward Communication
Making the Organization Comfortable with Sharing Bad News
Organizational Learning
Stephen Elop's "Burning Platform" Memo
All-Hands Meetings at Zappos
Collaboration at Cisco
Collaboration at Pixar
Self-Organizing Teams
Collaboration and Upwards Communication at Google
Module 3 Slides
Vertical Communication of Strategy
Horizontal Communication and Collaboration
Communicating Upwards
Managing Resistance and Other Implementation Risks
Module Intro
Lesson 1 Intro
Causes of Resistance
Managing Resistance
Models for Implementing a New Initiative
Lesson 2 Intro
Identifying Risks
Planning for Mitigation of Risks
Challenging Resistance to Change
Samsung's New Strategy, 2011
Uber in France, Summer 2015
Module 4 Slides
Identifying and Managing Resistance to Change
Managing Other Risks to Implementation
Leveraging Organizational Culture
Module Intro
Lesson 1 Intro
What is Organizational Culture?
Subcultures
Strong and Weak Cultures
Lesson 2 Intro
How Culture is Created and Propagated
Adapting Culture to Support Implementation
Cultural Values Associated with Creativity and Innovation
Culture at Netflix
Culture at Nucor
Culture at Chipotle
Module 5 Slides
What is Culture
Culture in Implementation
Power and Informal Networks. Course Ending
Module Intro
Lesson 1 Intro
Organizational Power and Its Sources
Using Power in Implementation. Conflicts
Lesson 2 Intro
Informal Networks
Relevance of Informal Networks for Implementation
Course Ending
About e-Types
e-Types about e-Types
About e-Types II
e-Types dilemma
Ben Horowitz on Organizational Politics
Informal Networks
Module 6 Slides
Examples for Describe-Substantiate-Recommend
e-Types as an Organization
Strategic Options for e-Types
Further Reading
Power and Organizational Politics
Informal Networks
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