Executive Education
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PROGRAMS OFFERED THROUGH HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Strategic Frameworks for Competitive Advantage
This 3-day, on-campus program focuses on key frameworks that will help you go from thinking about your customers to understanding markets and what drives them; from creating budgets to evaluating cost structures for competitive advantage; from knowing your competitors to analyzing patterns of competition and value migration; from understanding how to read financial statements to developing financial insights and reading the financial footprints of different business models. See more about this course by clicking here.
Strategic Business Insight (Fall 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
This hybrid course, taught mostly online, focuses on developing a strategic understanding of how businesses create value by linking market opportunities to business models, execution, and financial outcomes. Topics covered include how businesses create value, the elements of a business model and how they fit together, the operational levers behind financial outcomes, how markets evolve, and aligning organizational systems and structures. Drawing on both classic and current examples, the course is intensely interactive, with an emphasis on team-based problem solving. See more about this course by clicking here.
Behavioral Economics and Decision Making (Fall 2018, 2019)
Neoclassical economics and behavioral economics provide two different views of how people make decisions and tradeoffs. But just as relativity supplemented but didn’t replace Newtonian physics, we show how these two views of decision-making are complementary. Everybody uses mental shortcuts without being aware of it, shortcuts that proved valuable in human evolution but that can also lead to sub-optimal outcomes today. In this course, we analyze decision-making behavior in terms of calculational complexity, chronological complexity, and competitive complexity.
ONLINE EDUCATION
Working with Illumeo, we are developing a 15-module program on behavioral economics. The first module will be online in June 2019. Here is some sample video from the course.
CUSTOM-DESIGNED EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS
Since 1992, David has worked as an executive development specialist, designing and teaching management development programs that lead to strategic realignment and effective execution. These interactive, engaging, and conceptually rigorous programs supplement the “what” of a corporate vision with the “why” of the external changes in technology, customer behavior, and competitive actions that necessitate change.
The program we create focus on the WHAT, the WHY, and the HOW of strategic change:
UNDERSTANDING THE “WHY”
Companies’ strategies need to evolve and change if any of three things is happening:
CLARIFYING THE “HOW”
Strategic change in a big organization is more likely to be successful if it is supported in three ways:
PROGRAMS OFFERED THROUGH HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Strategic Frameworks for Competitive Advantage
This 3-day, on-campus program focuses on key frameworks that will help you go from thinking about your customers to understanding markets and what drives them; from creating budgets to evaluating cost structures for competitive advantage; from knowing your competitors to analyzing patterns of competition and value migration; from understanding how to read financial statements to developing financial insights and reading the financial footprints of different business models. See more about this course by clicking here.
Strategic Business Insight (Fall 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
This hybrid course, taught mostly online, focuses on developing a strategic understanding of how businesses create value by linking market opportunities to business models, execution, and financial outcomes. Topics covered include how businesses create value, the elements of a business model and how they fit together, the operational levers behind financial outcomes, how markets evolve, and aligning organizational systems and structures. Drawing on both classic and current examples, the course is intensely interactive, with an emphasis on team-based problem solving. See more about this course by clicking here.
Behavioral Economics and Decision Making (Fall 2018, 2019)
Neoclassical economics and behavioral economics provide two different views of how people make decisions and tradeoffs. But just as relativity supplemented but didn’t replace Newtonian physics, we show how these two views of decision-making are complementary. Everybody uses mental shortcuts without being aware of it, shortcuts that proved valuable in human evolution but that can also lead to sub-optimal outcomes today. In this course, we analyze decision-making behavior in terms of calculational complexity, chronological complexity, and competitive complexity.
ONLINE EDUCATION
Working with Illumeo, we are developing a 15-module program on behavioral economics. The first module will be online in June 2019. Here is some sample video from the course.
CUSTOM-DESIGNED EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS
Since 1992, David has worked as an executive development specialist, designing and teaching management development programs that lead to strategic realignment and effective execution. These interactive, engaging, and conceptually rigorous programs supplement the “what” of a corporate vision with the “why” of the external changes in technology, customer behavior, and competitive actions that necessitate change.
The program we create focus on the WHAT, the WHY, and the HOW of strategic change:
- What changes are being made to objectives, strategies, and organization structures
- Why the strategy needs to change
- How the target audience will be involved in executing the strategy and the change program
UNDERSTANDING THE “WHY”
Companies’ strategies need to evolve and change if any of three things is happening:
- Customers are changing their expectations and buying behavior
- Competitors are changing what they are selling and what markets they are targeting
- Technology is changing both product offerings and underlying cost structures
CLARIFYING THE “HOW”
Strategic change in a big organization is more likely to be successful if it is supported in three ways:
- Strategic facilitation, as key decisions get made by leadership teams
- Executive education, exposing employees to the why, the what, and the how of strategic change
- Coaching of top leaders and key change agents