Strategy
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Developing and implementing effective strategy within an organisation is not easy. Strategic decisions have many implications in today’s world – not just for your own organisation and its customers but also the impact on the environment has to be considered. Strategies exist at several levels in any organisation; ranging from the overall business through to individuals working in it; these strategic ideas and innovation can come from any part of your business, so the OU has developed a range of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses for busy professionals in this key area.
Courses
- Applying strategic thinking
Acquire tools, frameworks and ideas to help you play a more effective role in contributing to strategic thinking within your organisation. - Leading organisational change
This online course provides you with tools, frameworks and ideas to help you to lead change initiatives effectively as a manager of your organisation. - Influencing strategic thinking for finance professionals
This course will provide you with tools, frameworks and ideas to help you influence strategic thinking and contribute to strategic decisions as a finance professional. - How can supply chain ideas help you?
This course will provide you with tools and techniques to help you apply supply chain management ideas in your own organisational or professional context. - Innovation for business results
This course looks at various types and sources of innovation and how organisations have grappled with the challenge of producing better products and services through innovation. - Working across cultures
This course introduces a number of key techniques and competencies for working across cultures and the opportunity to use them in your real working context. - Corporate social responsibility in practice
This course is aimed at individuals who need to know about CSR to understand and contribute to CSR policies and practices in their organisation. - Sustainability at work: how to go green
This course aims to introduce the broad aspects of sustainability encompassed by UK government policy.
More courses
See the list of all our Professional skills courses.
Skills at the OU
- Change Management
- Clinical Leadership
- Communications
- Financial Management
- Food Science Skills
- General Management Skills
- Health and Social Care
- Human Resource Management
- IT Skills
- Key Corporate Skills
- Leadership
- Marketing
- People Management
- Problem Solving
- Project Management
- Strategy
- Travel Planning
- Updating Teacher Practice Skills
Spotlight on Strategy
Working together across professional boundaries
The importance of collaborative working, including stakeholder management, developing cooperative behaviour in colleagues and asserting leadership skills, are all vital when working across professional boundaries. Working together across professional boundaries (GB065) will enable you to develop your understanding of the issues involved when working in this way.
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