Formulating Long-Strategy | Skills Education

Formulating Long Strategy

From Strategic Concepts: Course 1 - Module 2

Time to get off the hamster wheel?

If it feels like you're constantly planning and adapting to changes, but the wider industry is shifting at a much slower rate, it might be time to start formulating long strategy.

This module supports anyone who wants to step back from the day-to-day and think more systematically about how their work aligns with longer-term goals. It introduces a set of practical ideas to help you see the bigger picture, even when your organisational environment is under pressure.

We explore:

How to evaluate whether your organisation's strategy is working - and where the gaps are
Techniques for thinking more creatively about programs, delivery modes and markets
Ways to track the external environment so you are not caught off guard
Frameworks to help you align your own decisions with wider organisational goals
How to stay strategic when things change, without losing long-term focus

This module includes case studies, discussion points and a quiz to support your PD.

Course curriculum

Self-paced content to support learning in this module

1. Great to have you here
2. Information you need to know
3. What you need to do
1. 1 Systemic strategy evaluation
2. [Watch] Cognitive concepts of systemic strategy evaluation
3. [Action] Confirm your understanding
4. [Download] Worksheet
5. 2 Strategy evaluation as a micro system
6. [Watch] Cognition and Change
7. [Action] Confirm your understanding
8. [Watch] Cognitive Concepts of Strategy Practice - Strategic thinking
9. [Action] Confirm your understanding
10. [Download] Worksheet
11. 3 Strategy thinking
12. [Watch] Impact of Bias and Noise - Strategic Change Case Study
13. [Action] Confirm your understanding
14. [Download] Worksheet
1. 1 Strategy evaluation and alignment A
2. [Watch] Strategy Evaluation Shaping - Level 1 External Environment
3. [Action] Confirm your understanding
4. [Download] Worksheet
5. 2 Strategy evaluation and alignment B
6. [Watch] Strategy Evaluation Shaping - Level 2 Sustainable Competitive Advantage
7. [Action] Confirm your understanding
8. [Download] Worksheet
9. 3 Strategy evaluation and alignment C
10. [Watch] Strategy Evaluation Shaping - Level 3 Inside Out, Internal influences
11. [Action] Confirm your understanding
12. [Download] Worksheet
1. 1 Core principles and practices
2. [Watch] Fundamentals of Long Term Strategy
3. [Action] Confirm your understanding
4. [Download] Worksheet
5. 2 Organisational Purpose, Mission, Vision
6. [Watch] Business Models
7. [Action] Confirm your understanding
8. [Download] Worksheet
9. 3 Strategic Architecture essentials
10. [Watch] Strategic Architecture
11. [Action] Confirm your understanding
12. [Download] Worksheet
13. 4 Integrated value system
14. [Watch] Strategic Architecture Derivatives
15. [Action] Confirm your understanding
16. [Watch] Recap and Conclusion
17. Confirm your understanding
18. [Download] Worksheet
1. Application of concepts in practice
2. [Watch] Cadbury case study
3. [Action] Confirm your understanding
4. [Download] Worksheet
1. Confirm Your Understanding of 'Reinventing Strategic Planning'
1. Congratulations on Completing!