The Oxford Enterprise Leadership Programme is a specialized business strategy course highlighting the impact of aligning purpose, strategy, and capability. The course takes a fresh approach to an established concept by proposing strategies devised from insights in a new field of research termed “strategic alignment.”

Strategic alignment encapsulates the intersection of leadership and strategy to ultimately improve the effectiveness, operations, and performance of an enterprise and its project management. It also ensures organizational capability and strengthens teams by driving individuals within the enterprise to work together toward a common goal. In a highly competitive, complex, and shifting marketplace, this alignment can determine organizational success or failure.

Based on active research at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, the course investigates each link of the enterprise value chain that forms the core foundation of every organization. Over six weeks, it uses evidence-based insights, strategic frameworks, project case studies, and real-world applications to help you understand this new concept. As you position yourself to transform and future-proof your enterprise, you’ll gain the practical skills to produce and apply a fit-for-purpose business strategy for your organization’s unique context.

This course takes a unique view on organizational effectiveness, aligning purpose, strategy, and capability. It aims to equip you with the intellectual toolkit to facilitate strategic alignment in any enterprise, whether in the private, public, government, or not-for-profit sector. While the practical application of your learnings and stakeholder buy-in is dependent on your level of influence, the principles taught are industry-agnostic. Guided by Oxford Saïd faculty, heads of department, middle management, HR professionals, as well as those in the field of project management, will learn how to strengthen their teams and facilitate strategic alignment between departments and within projects.

Executives, directors, and business leaders tasked with operational transformation will benefit from the strategic approach to improving performance, creating future-facing objectives, and enhancing leadership skills. Consultants will explore the latest research and improve their ability to advise on clients’ organizational effectiveness.