Strategy
Breakthrough Strategic Thinking
This programme will explore an integrated set of valuable tools and techniques for formulating and executing successful strategies to help the growth and performance of your organisation. It focuses on a number of key strategies, all designed to make a real difference to you and your organisation. At the end of the programme, you will have a clear understanding of how to formulate and implement a breakthrough strategy.
What will I get out of the Breakthrough Strategic Thinking programme?
You will:
- Improve your skills to create, evaluate and implement breakthrough strategies
- Have the ability to apply leading-edge tools that are essential for strategic survival and change the way you think
- Improve your confidence when engaging in strategic discussions and making strategic decisions
- Be able to stand back from difficult problems and tactical detail and address the issues you are facing
- Advance your career by developing your strategic thinking
- On-going development and support in the workplace, between the first module and the review workshop.
Your organisation will gain:
- A comprehensive toolkit to use that has been applied and adopted successfully in major blue-chip companies
- Direct feedback on the organisation's strategic issues
- Better strategies created, evaluated and implemented
- Strategy applied to everyday thinking.
What is the Breakthrough Strategic Thinking programme about?
- Generating and evaluating innovative, yet highly relevant breakthrough strategies
- Reviewing and assessing how your industry may change in the future and how this can be used for your benefit
- Creating new, high potential ideas related to business choices and performance
- Agendas for change and the implementation of high growth strategies- applying it to your own issues
- Strategic change and strategy implementation - applying it to your own issues
- The review day provides the opportunity to reflect on the real world application of the tools and to expand on your capabilities in developing and applying breakthrough strategic thinking.
Who is the Breakthrough Strategic Thinking programme for?
Managers at senior levels who have or will have present or future involvement in strategic planning and implementation, and feel caught in day-to-day tactical detail. Managers from all functions, organisation sizes and industry types. Sending more than one individual from the same organisation has been very beneficial, especially for process transfer.
Director of the Breakthrough Strategic Thinking programme
Patrick Reinmoeller

Course Director, Professor Patrick Reinmoeller’s co-authored book Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalisation was recently judged by the Chartered Management Institute to be amongst the top five Management and Leadership books in 2011. Get this book free when you attend the programme.