Brainsteering Your Game Plan: Strategizing a Game Plan Using Design Thinking

Introduction

Program Description

Learning Objectives

• Understand the definition and the framework of strategy
• Learn how to process a structured thinking flow so not to waste time and achieve more result
• Identify a strategic problem that your orgaization faces, frame it as a question, and brainstorm possibilities to solve it
• Surface and pick the conditions that would need to be true to make the possibility a winning strategy
• Build and conduct different types of tests to help you choose among your possibilities
• Set your team up to be able to take action on the strategic choices you make
• Conduct a complete process in developing strategy and create an execution plan
• Establish a project plan with milestones to track so as to ascertain that such a plan in successfully executed

Course Content

Module 1: An Introduction to Strategy and Design Thinking

• The fundamentals of Strategy
• Forecasting and reading patterns on how markets and business behaves
• Design Thinking Mindset in Building Strategies
• Difference Between Strategy & Tactics
• Thinking Pattern during Strategic Thinking Process

Module 2: STRATEGY PROCESS MAP - A Framework For Navigating Strategy

• Step 1: Identifying the problem or issues
• Step 2: Framing A Question for steering the thought process
• Step 3: Generate Possibilities
• Step 4: Deciding what would have to be TRUE
• Step 5: Identifying Barriers
• Step 6: Design & Conduct Strategy Test
• Step 7: Deciding the Strategy To Implement

Module 3: STRATEGY CHOICE CASCADE - A Way to Articulate Strategy

• Step 1: Designing Winning Aspiration
• Step 2: Deciding the Playing field Demographics
• Step 3: Deciding On How to Win
• Step 4: Defining The Activities Needed To Build Competitive Advantage
• Step 5: Establishing Management System

Module 4: Implementation Your Strategy

• Simulating Your Strategy Prototypes and Testing for refinement
• Identifying the stakeholders and preparing to get buy ins
• Establishing Roadmaps and Monitoring Methods
• Defining Success Metrics and Expected Outcome to work with
• Establishing timelines and resources needed for the strategy mapping