These workshops are the two core modules of PoS and build on the learning from Patterns of Strategy foundation (PoS1).
Patterns of Strategy is a systemic approach to strategy that reveals and utilises the hidden drivers of emergent strategy. In PoS2, we’ll continue building skill in its use by exploring strategy in different relationships and from different perspectives. You might be interested in X, but so might be your competitor or a regulator, and the success of your strategy will depend on understanding all of these. We’ll also explain how to handle the practicalities of moving from strategy development to planning and execution. And there will be opportunity to apply your learning to a case and to your own strategic situation.
In PoS3, we’ll explain how to handle the practicalities of moving from strategy development to planning and execution. That includes a sequenced plan overtly linked to the manoeuvres in your strategy, along with metrics and communication of the strategy. And there will be opportunity to apply your learning to a case and to your own strategic situation.
Together, these modules help you:
- Understand different ways to assess your fit with your environment: is it “to your advantage?”
- Understand how to develop strategy options:
- What you want to do.
- What others might do, in response to you or proactively.
- What you might do in response to them (ripostes).
- Practise these ideas assessing a current strategic situation or a case.
- Understand how to build a strategy execution plan including measurement, and how to test strategy options.
- Practise these ideas assessing a current strategic situation or a case.
- Appreciate the characteristics of agile strategy.
Trainers These courses are delivered by one of the developers of PoS: Patrick Hoverstadt, co-author of ‘Patterns of Strategy ’ which is the text on PoS.