Poor decisions made at the production stage will adversely affect the profitability of the product and eventually the business. However, as the work environment becomes increasingly siloed to increase productivity and control cost, decisions are now made at respective departments within the business cycles increasing the difficulty in understanding how these decision made at the department level will affect the corporate wide results at the end.

It is now more important to be looking at decision making at a holistic view to ensure decisions are made effectively and inclusively. In addition due to the ‘bullwhip effect’ of the supply-demand processes where decisions made at the beginning of the process are at times only known at the end, it is now more important than ever to be able to see the results of the decisions immediately.

With the advent of big data and technology, results can now be simulated on a real-time basis based on decisions made to understand the impact of these decisions on individual departments as well as on the company as a whole.

Business Strategy Professional is a programme that incorporates both theoretical aspects of strategic decision making with a big data simulation engine enables the real-life simulation of results based on artificial intelligence calculated using key decision data made by the participants. 

This will enable learner to understanding the impact of their decision made at the department level on the corporation as a whole, and be able to access the impact of that decisions on a real-life basis. In respect, this training objectives are:

• To develop analytical and strategic leadership skills
• To develop a logical decision making mind-set.
• To build awareness on the importance of customer’s expectations.
• To experience an in-depth understanding of the influence of competitors to one’s business.
• To understand the integrity and synergy between various department in an organization.
• To coordinate strategy and tactics across R&D, Marketing, Production, Finance, HR and TQM.
• To understand the importance of cross functional alignment and team work in an organization.
• To develop a sense of economy for the business and ability to use quantitative information (i.e. Profit and Lost statement, budgets, production etc) for business decision making.

These objectives will also be able to improve decision making skills at organisations today thereby increasing cost efficiency and increasing business growth in today’s competitive environment.

Programme Synopsis and Learning Outcomes:

Often managers lose sight of long-term goals because they need to constantly look at making decisions to fulfil short term goals and objectives.

To ensure that companies remain on track to reach set strategic objectives, managers requires an holistic insight to the business and they also need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills to participant in strategy planning and decision making so alignment of operational and tactical plans and decisions is made to the overall strategy plan.

Business Strategy Professional Level 7 is an intensive and comprehensive 10 days blended training programme that is specially designed for managers at all levels. It will refresh and equips you will new skills and tools along with practical experiences to devise strategic plan and strategic decisions.

This is a high level training that provides training to managers in crafting strategic plans and decisions that also creates framework for your subordinates to follow in their daily decision making.

Through lectures, brainstorming, discussions, case studies simulations and the analysis development training, you will be able to

• Recognise changes caused by competitors to the industry which they serve and make needful strategic adjustments for the growth of the business.
• Practice cross departmental communication to ensure alignments of strategic decisions.
• Articulate logically with business sense for each key business decisions and its internal and external implication
• Make judgements with minimal compromises to the overall strategic direction and defend the judgement.
• Apply, adjust and adopt suitable models, techniques and theories to produce an environment audit for an organisation
• Critically analyse, evaluate and discuss alternative strategies for an organisation’s execution.
• Develop and integrate strategies for at least 4 departments.

The training is an intensive yet flexible programme. It begin with 2 days face-to-face training sessions, then participants will undergo experiential learning experiences with the support by the trainer using tools and materials that is available within the Axon Training Portal. On the second last day of the training, participants will gather to complete a full simulation that will be assessed with marks. The final day will be will be a debriefing day whereby our facilitator will be spending time to discuss the various strategies formulated and it’s implementations.

Teams will be rated on business success based on the decisions they made over the 8 periods of each simulation rounds that covers the aspect of Research & Development, Marketing, Production, Human Resource, TQM and Finance. These decisions span across the categories in the International Business Excellence Framework. The digital simulation uses an integrated evaluation approach to relate each decisions to the various aspect of the Business Excellence Framework against the results and performance to generate a point and the points will be presented in a Balanced Scorecard.

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Full set of reports generated by AI and big data based on your strategy for analysis and discussion:

• Annual Report
• Production Analysis
• Stock Market Report
• Market Segment Analysis
• HR & TQM Analysis
• Income Statement
• Financial Reports
• Balance Sheet
• Cash Flow
  …

• 5 Star : 900 points and above
• 4 Star : 800-899 points
• 3 Star: 700-799 points
• 2 Star: 600-699 points
• 1 Star: 500-599 points