Even a thoroughly developed business strategy may fail if you don't pay enough attention to its implementation. This rings particularly true with strategies based on innovation or implemented in complex or fast-changing environments. In the 20th century successful implementation leveraged stability and typically proceeded through hierarchy and control. Today the key is to stay vibrant and able to quickly respond to trends in competition and technology while not losing sight of the strategic objective. In this course we'll build a toolbox of techniques to execute today's business strategies to help them succeed. After completing this course, you'll be able to: - Create objectives and goals to guide strategy implementation - Identify organizational structures that fit particular strategies - Understand how to leverage company culture in implementation - Describe how to communicate the strategy so that the organization "gets" it - Detect and mitigate risks to implementation
Small videos is very comfortable for learning. The course is very detailed and without unusable details
The course is concise but my expectation to learn the implementation of strategy is well established and great!
Nicolai does a really good job in explaining Strategy Implementation. I would say that it is the most thorough module that I have been through so far in the Strategy Management course.
Very complete overview of all aspects related to strategy implementation within organisation. Not only related to innovation but from a broader perspective.
Teacher is a little harder to follow and less coherent than others in the specialisation. Still good.
Found this to be very interesting and relevant to my FP&A role. Certainly, expanded my thinking and now I am able to consider factors other than financial to attribute to a firm's success.
The course provided excellent insights for implementing strategies in an ever changing environment. It was concise with examples of existing industries and well delivered.
Great course! Definitely my best of the series. Highly detailed with very pointed insights. Slides were also very helpful in ensuring retention of knowledge. Great stuff- bravo!
I enjoyed the content and learned a lot about the many different facets to take into account when implementing a strategy which at first glance may not visible.
Amazing course with rich content of concepts and tools.It would be perfect if assisted with recommended readings
Thank you very much ,Iam so glad and proud to complete this course .Warms thanks and regards.Mubarak Saeed
Great! well-organized the final project, and I loved the fact that we had access to the slides at the end of the lesson. It had great value for me. Were very usefull
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This is excellent course for converting vision to goals and measurables, It provides all the tools and processes required to manage and run organization wide initiatives.
I enjoyed the content and learned a lot about the many different facets to take into account when implementing a strategy which at first glance may not visible.
I would just like to suggest that the instructions for the final peer-review assignment should be improved. For me it was quite clear that the goal was to pick the strategic option for Etypes to choose the "team danmark logo" which in essence also defines the bigger strategy of eTypes to stay edgy and a rebel designer company. We were supposed to pick implementation plans specifically for this strategy. However, some of the peers assumed that they could propose several strategies, and combine a series of implementation plans, and put them altogether into this assignment. This in my opinion, lead to some confusion in some of the peers assignment submissions and their reviews for the assignment.
This is one of the most practical strategy session you will come across. I have read many books and have also gone through webinars and sessions on Coursera but this course by CBS just stands out.
This course is best suited for both learners as well as practitioners. I would love to undergo more such courses designed by CBS.
Very good course. Even though I am aware of the strategy implementation frameworks, I liked the way Professor emphasized SIX aspects to implement the strategy. Assignments at the end of each chapter are very good to test our knowledge. I strongly recommend this course.
Very informative course. I recommend this course for anyone who is working in strategy development areas in corporates
Amazing course, I really recommend it. It will help you to align your company strategies in to goals and metrics.
It's the best course I have ever been on.
Strategy Implementation is the best course, This course contains the wonderful experience and realistic facts with a practical example it will definitely excel our skill and knowledge and also give us an insight of strategy implementation as well as how strategy plays a crucial role to change not only the organization but also as individual and the most important part is implementation.
The lectures were very uninspiring and many of the links to readings did not work. The final assignment was also quite confusing and all the students whose assignments I reviewed did it completely differently.
For me, this is the best of the courses in the Strategic Management & Innovation series. The videos have been kept short and well structured. The lecturer is clear and very composed. The reviews and read ups are purely excellent in driving home practicality of real life scenarios. They give a good understanding of situations companies have found themselves in and specifics applied to weathering storms.
An excellent course with excellent delivery. Very applicable to my current job role in coordinating alignment and harmonization of my organisation's group structure.
Owolabi, Nigeria
A fantastic journey through the origin of strategy. The case studies shared in the specialization reinforced the principles and broaden my understanding of the firms conducting and companies conducting strategy as well as its evolution and the industry as a whole.
I feel prepared to interact and lead my next employer, manager, and team through strategy discussions. I would highly recommend these three courses to colleagues.
Thank you for the clarity in which the aspects and importance of implementation and the pitfalls to be avoided was communicated. The case studies adopted were an eye-opener to various aspects of good implementation - be it culture at Netflix & Pixar, or risk mitigation in Samsung and Uber. Much appreciated.
Excellent course! Personally, I saw just the right balance between theoretical background and practical examples about the course's contents. I recommend this course to anyone involved in the process of strategy implementation inside enterprises.
Good top line refreseher or introduction into Strategy Implementation. The course helps communicated some of the key aspects of implementing a strategy in a modern (circa 2015-2020) organization, but contains many timeless principles.
This was a very good experience for me. The material was easily digestible but at the same time with at lot of depth. I love how the professor invites you to dig into the more academic material without it being a prerequisite
An excellent course that explores issues such as power dynamics in strategy, enabling the student to think through these issues as part of an implementation recommendation. An interesting final project to employ the theory.
Excellent course. The innovation theme comes up a lot in lectures and examples, "as advertised" in the specialization title. Lectures are nicely chunked, address specific issues and are to the point. Highly recommended!
The Professor knows very well how to express the ideas and concepts at the same time he gives real life examples. The course is very well structured and it has a lot of interesting and useful material! Very good one!
The course is clearly structured, succinctly presented, everything is clear, there is presentation material, the cases contain information for reflection and for work. The lecturer prepared his course perfectly!