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Provided by: Serebra Learning Corporation Sustaining Competitive Advantage |
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Training
Provided by Serebra Learning Corporation
In today's competitive business environment, being as good as the competition is not enough. An organization must devise strategies and develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies to set it apart from the competition. In this course business strategies are examined that can help a company gain and sustain competitive advantage. Companies build their strength around three key strategic areas: competitive positioning, core competence, and talent. By focusing on these strategic approaches, this course demonstrates how competitive advantage can be created, grown, and sustained in a company. Those in management who are engaged in or preparing for a more strategic role in business. This includes senior executives, operations managers, consultants, and businesspeople looking to add a more strategic edge to their business activities. This course is also aimed at business students and professionals who want to gain knowledge of how strategy can be applied in a business context.
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Sustaining Competitive Advantage
Audience
Those in management who are engaged in or preparing for a more strategic role in business. This includes senior executives, operations managers, consultants, and businesspeople looking to add a more strategic edge to their business activities. This course is also aimed at business students and professionals who want to gain knowledge of how strategy can be applied in a business context.
Topics
Objectives
- Lesson Overview
- recognize the benefits of understanding Porter's competitive positioning modelFive Forces of Competitive Positioning
- determine which forces are undermining a company's position in a given scenario
- match Porter's five competitive forces to the considerations associated with eachGeneric Strategies
- determine the most appropriate generic strategy to use in a given scenario The Value Chain
- match primary value chain activities to examplesLesson Overview
- recognize the benefits of taking a competence-based strategic management approach The Core Competencies Model
- determine whether a company's competencies can be considered "core" in a given scenario Building Around Core Competence
- identify examples of the five key competence management tasksLesson Overview
- recognize the importance of the strategic development of talentThe Value Disciplines
- identify examples of the value disciplines that drive successful organizationsThe Need for Talent Strategies
About The Training Provider: Serebra Learning Corporation
Serebra Learning Corporation - Serebra Learning Corporation provides technology-based training solutions through a combination of Cortex, its proprietary learning management system (LMS), and a curriculum catalog with over 1, 825 current courseware titles. Founded in 1987 (as FirstClass Systems, with a name change to Serebra in 2001), Serebra has over sixteen years" experience delivering e-learning solutions to both...
