Location & Date: Houston, TX USA: Jul 15-19, Oct 7-11 | Dubai, UAE: Oct 14-18
CEUs: 6.0
Registration Discount: $3,900 – You must Register 60 days in advance and payment must be Paid In Full 30 days prior to the start of class.

Course Overview

This program is more relevant than ever because it presumes high levels of uncertainty, complexity, and velocity in every tool and technique we present. It further covers both the analytical side of coping with uncertainty (what to do) as well as the human side (how to get people to realize the challenges and respond appropriately). In this program, we insist on driving strategic decision making from the perspective of deep insight and differentiating rather than going along with the crowd.
This program focused on the process of finding opportunities, launching new ventures, and leading necessary organizational changes to revitalize and transform an organization in times of uncertainty. Participants will learn how to thrive in rapidly changing and highly uncertain environments and will be able to immediately apply their learning to make rapid progress on an issue they identify.
If you have ever worried about how to drive new growth or how to make a change initiative successful, you will enjoy the insights developed in this live online program.

Course Outline

The program takes place in an interactive delivery format and is designed to address the levels of unprecedented uncertainty we are all facing. A select set of additional readings and materials are also included:

Setting the context:
• an overview of why innovation is no longer optional in the transient advantage economy and the new strategy playbook
• Introduction to an alternative to growth-strangling metrics: Real options reasoning
• Creating an opportunity portfolio

Think Wrong Workshop
An immersion day on Design Thinking showing you how to unfreeze your thinking to create novel solutions
De-mystifying digital transformation
• how increasingly strategy = innovation = digital
• Discovery Driven Planning, a technique for planning to learn quickly, manage risk, and bring down costs when operating under high levels of uncertainty

An entirely new force in our economy consists of complementors
• learn why you can’t avoid understanding this to be successful
• Platform strategies: the newest trend in business models
• The economics and often counterintuitive behavior of two-sided markets
• Why Uber’s original business model has flaws as a platform

Disengagement
• how to gracefully shut down a project or end a business
• Create a simple formula for leading organizational transformation, accompanied by a diagnostic
• Customers should not be a mystery – 3 techniques for understanding them better
• Learning Outcome

After Taking this course, you should be able to:
• Understand and describe the six elements of your new strategy playbook
• Rapidly evaluate and prioritize the activities currently in your portfolio
• Decide which programs or projects to stop and how to disengage from them
• Explore how to lead through change and uncertainty
• Reframe problems to spark novel solutions
• Smartly plan your digital transformation strategy
• Create plans that facilitate learning rather than assuming knowledge
• Understand the political and implementation challenges of growth
• Identify opportunities to create a ‘platform’ business model
• Understand how to create important relationships with ecosystem partners
• Gain deep customer insight

Target Audience

Directors, Policymakers, Commissioners, Politicians, Chief Executives, Senior Administrators and Leaders in the public sector, Managers and coordinators responsible for monitoring performance and other key stakeholders

Course Outline

• Data Protection Regimes
• Regulatory Authorities
• Technologies and Services
• Transfers and trade implications
• Communications Policies
• Data Protection and information Security
• The ITU Guidelines on Child Online Protection
• Enhancing the Protection and Cyber-Resilience of Critical information infrastructure

Target Audience

Global Strategy in Uncertain Times is designed for middle, upper- to senior-level executives who seek significant growth opportunities for their organizations.