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Oxford Saïd: Oxford Executive Strategy Programme

Strengthen your organisational strategy by developing the skills to lead your business through complexity.

Strengthen your organisational strategy by developing the skills to lead your business through complexity.

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This course is offered by , an edX partner
7 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts May 15, 2024
Enroll by May 21, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
7 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts May 15, 2024
Enroll by May 21, 2024
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

As the business environment becomes increasingly uncertain, it’s apparent that traditional approaches to strategy are no longer sufficient to navigate such rapid change. Leaders now need to ask, “How should strategy evolve to better prepare us for the future?” The Oxford Executive Strategy Programme seeks to answer this question.

Informed by the distinct research strengths of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, the course unpacks how strategy is changing and how breadth within strategic thinking, in addition to thinking long-term, is imperative to leading strategy. You’ll learn about strategy from Oxford’s unique perspective, based on a core framework of the four Ps: purposes, players, partnerships, and processes. With this new approach to organizational strategy that considers rapidly changing environments, stakeholders, and digital transformation, you’ll become prepared to lead strategy in disruptive environments.

The content of this course also forms part of the six-month onlineOxford Strategic Management Executive Programme, designed to help you advance as a business executive.

This online course is relevant to business leaders and senior executives who are responsible for making strategic decisions, driving digital innovation, and managing strategy within disruptive environments. Those looking to optimize their current performance for a competitive and digital business landscape will be able to immediately apply the Oxford approach to strategy within their own context. Professionals working towards a future leadership role or career will gain practical guidance on improving strategies within their teams. Over the course of seven weeks online, the course balances theory with practical global case studies from various industries, ensuring those in traditional corporate spaces, finance, business development, healthcare, and IT find relevance within their own organizational context.

Course curriculum

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Develop your own personalised strategy playbook as you work through the weekly modules of this online programme.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Unlocking strategy – The Oxford view

Module 2: Working with futures – Addressing changing environments

Module 3: Making strategy purposeful – Managing plurality

Module 4: Engaging players – Developing strategy statements that count

Module 5: Building partnerships – Collaborating and competing

Module 6: Broadening strategy processes – Designing new strategy processes

Module 7: Strategy into practice – Assembling your playbook

About the certificate

Explore a distinctive perspective on strategy and earn an official certificate of attendance from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the programme handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the programme.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

58%

The percentage of chief strategy officers who believe that strategy played a critical role in accelerating digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Deloitte (Nd.) Accessed Apr, 2021.

30%

Less than a third of strategists believe that their execution efforts are effectively aligned with strategy.

Gartner (2020).

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