CPA GSL Introduction

CPA GSL Introduction

1. introduction

   • Evolution
     • Strategy of war
     • The visible hand
     • Competitive strategy
   • Strategic process
     • where are we today?
     • where are we going and when?
     • how are we going to get there?
     • how do we implement the strategy?
   • leadership v management
   • ethics
     • classical view
     • socieconomic view
   • approaches
     • rational approach
     • processional approach
     • evolutionary approach
     • systematic approach

2. strategy process

   • understand external enviornment
     • PESTEL
   • understand internal environment
     • strategic drivers
     • operational drivers
     • people and organisational drivers
     • SWOT
   • growth options
     • modes of entry
     • products and markets
   • options, themes and implmentation
     • vision, missions and goals

3. strategic thinking

   • understand and articulate big picture
   • strategic stretch
   • strategic equation
     • integration and alignment with people and funcitons
     • relationship with organisation and its enviornment

4. levels of strategy

   • corporate
   • business
     • SBU
   • functional

5. global context

   • drivers
     • competition
     • technology
     • social
     • political
   • challenges
     • competition
     • distribution
     • macro
     • ocioeconomic
     • financial
     • legal
     • physical
     • political
     • socicultural
     • labour
     • technological
     • globalisation
   • benefits
     • cost
     • timing
     • learning
     • arbitrage

6. accountants role

   • financial
   • non-financial
   • decision making
   • value creation