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16 - 20 Feb 2025

Cairo (Egypt)

Hotel : Holiday Inn & Suites Cairo Maadi, an IHG Hotel

Cost : 3575 € Euro

Introduction

Strategic planning is key to long-term organizational success but requires vision beyond past trends. This seminar focuses on preparing organizations for a dynamic future by setting focused, competitive goals. Participants will explore strategy concepts, formulation approaches, and real-world case studies, with hands-on group work and practical insights from expert-led examples. Position your organization for sustained success in an ever-changing environment.

Objectives

  • Understand how to design visionary strategic plans

  • Work out how to translate strategic plans into action plans

  • Examine a model for organizational and individual assessment

  • Provide insights into strategic planning problems to avoid

  • Identify and learn from examples of strategic success and failure

  • Understand the nature of the organizational life cycle

  • Provide insights into productive contingency planning

Methodology

The most up to date training methods are used to present this seminar. The seminar is carefully designed to address all styles of learning and to engage participants fully. Formal presentations and discussions are supplemented by group exercises. These exercises provide opportunities for personal participation in real situations. During these exercises, you discover how to apply what you are learning. This process makes the learning process enjoyable, fast-paced, challenging, and empowering.

Organizational Impact 

  • Employees are better able to relate their functional work to the overall direction of the organization

  • There will be greater flexibility within the organization

  • Employees’ capability in analyzing and building creative solutions will be enhanced

  • Employees will have more confidence in setting and aiming for ambitious targets

  • Employees will be better placed to cope with organizational change

  • Employees will think more rigorously about creating tomorrow’s organization out of today’s organization

Personal Impact

As a result of attending this seminar, individual delegates will gain the following benefits

  • Will learn how to combine visionary, analytical and creative thinking
  • Will have a better understanding of the global business environment of the 21st century
  • Will learn how to make choices in making the best use of finite resources
  • Will develop improved preparedness to deal with contingencies
  • Will learn how to set challenging, realistic and achievable targets
  • Will learn how to measure performance and manage progress

Outlines

Day 1: The Strategic Planning process

  • Introduction to the seminar – structure, and content

  • Strategy - concept, and significance

  • “Competitive Positioning” versus “Blue Sky” approaches

  • Achieving competitive advantage through flexibility and agility

  • The interaction of strategy, structure and business processes

  • Gathering information and intelligence for the SWOT analysis

  • Mini-cases and group discussion – “Cost versus Differentiation”

  • Review of Day One

Day 2: The Strategic Planning process

  • Vision and mission statements - preparing for the future

  • Business analysis and contingency planning

  • Strategic choice

  • Converting the SWOT analysis into the “Strategy Matrix”

  • Strategy formulation – programs, projects, policies

  • Transforming the organization - strategy implementation and managing change

  • Mini-case and group discussion – major strategic re-orientation

  • Review of Day Two

Day 3: Assessing the current state of the organization

  • Leadership and management in relation to strategy

  • Customer and market focus

  • Human resources and knowledge management

  • Building a strategic planning team

  • Effective process management to achieve business results

  • Monitoring and measuring business performance

  • Mini-case and group discussion - a market entry problem

  • Review of Day Three

Day 4: Avoiding the pitfalls of strategic planning

  • The strategy life-cycle and the problem of strategic drift

  • Getting innovative thinking into the organization

  • The potentially negative dimensions of success

  • How to avoid “paralysis by analysis”

  • Overcoming inability to evaluate fresh ideas, denying the truth and thinking inside the box

  • The critical importance of team building and teamwork

  • Mini-case and group discussion - how and why a good organization can go bad

  • Review of Day Four

Day 5: Personal strategic planning

  • Applying strategic tools and techniques to the individual

  • Personal goal setting, creating a personal strategic plan

  • Implementing change – achieving progress as a strategic manager

  • The mix of competencies and personal skills required in 21st-century business

  • Executing strategy – how to break it down and get it done

  • Developing inspiration and gathering support

  • Overcoming adversity by leveraging your skills and building on success

  • Conclusion – a personal role in the strategic planning and goal setting processes

Conferences

Conference: Setting Business Goals, Targets & Deliverables


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CO8214

16 - 20 Feb 2025

Cairo (Egypt) - Holiday Inn & Suites Cairo Maadi, an IHG Hotel

Hotel : Holiday Inn & Suites Cairo Maadi, an IHG Hotel

Cost: 3575 € Euro


  About Cairo

Cairo is a mesmerizing assortment of iconic monuments, bustling markets, and ancient sites encircled by a vast and sprawling metropolis. At its core lies a maze-like medieval quarter. A world away from the modern side of the city, it boasts a seductive blend of intricate mosques, jostling crowds, madrasas, and traditional hammams. No visit could be complete without visiting the awe-inspiring Giza Pyramids that preside over the city's horizon. Whether you come to delve into the city's ancient past, dive into colorful souqs, sip mint tea and contemplate thousands of years of history or explore the city's cosmopolitan side, you'll be left with memories to last a lifetime.


  Things to do and places to visit in Cairo

The multi-layered capital of Egypt offers its visitors lively markets, authentic restaurants, and a multitude of ancient sights and archeological findings. Gaze in wonder at the Pyramids, take an awe-inspiring look at Tutankhamen's burial mask, shop for handmade souvenirs in the bazaars or hop on a sunset cruise down the Nile and embrace the sensory overload that is Cairo.

Take a vacation in Cairo and you can:

  • Visit the Great Sphinx of Giza, one of Ancient Egypt's great mysteries.
  • Explore the ramparts of the Salah El-Din Citadel.
  • Join locals drinking coffee at Fishawi Café, one of Cairo's first cafes and most important meeting spots.
  • Marvel at the seemingly endless historical artifacts on display at the Egyptian Museum.
  • Learn about the Ummayad, Ottoman, and Ayyubbid dynasties and more at the Museum of Islamic Art.
  • Haggle for souvenirs and gifts at the Khan el-Khalili souk.
  • See one of the world's oldest universities at the Al-Azhar Mosque, one of the city's original mosques.
  • Take a tour of the showstopping Giza pyramids.
  • Savor local cuisine such as mezze in the old city.
  • Wander through the labyrinth-like streets of Coptic Cairo, the city's ancient quarter, and spot Roman relics.
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