Strategic Management

insight into how to gain competitive advantage, which is at the heart of good strategy.

Strategy is about creating and delivering the future. It is about leading your team or your organization to a future in which you are able to compete more effectively and to achieve prosperity and sustainability. The skills of strategic management are applicable to those leading a team or planning the direction of any size of organization in all sectors-private, public, and voluntary.

Strategic management is for those taking, or wanting to take, their first steps to developing and implementing strategic changes. It gives you the tools you need to make effective strategic decisions, by helping you analyze your organization and the would it operates in, plan your strategic approach, and implement the changes. It provides insight into how to gain competitive advantage, which is at the heart of good strategy.

Strategic management is easier than many suggest, yet not all managers take the time to master it. If you do develop the ability to think strategically and learn the skills needed for strategic management, you will make yourself a valuable asset to your organization.

ACTION POINT: Develop your powers of strategic thinking so that they become second nature.