LDR703 Strategic Development
An effective strategy for addressing a challenge involves a clear understanding of the current reality, a focused vision for a preferred reality, and a strong awareness of the ground to be navigated in moving from the one to the other. This course is designed to help students create dynamic solutions to existing challenges by developing and implementing effective strategies in pursuit of the mission.
Credits: 3
Student learning outcomes
- Engage explicit and implicit organizational mission, core principles and boundaries, articulating their implications on proposed strategic initiatives.
- Articulate strategic vision that is aggressive enough to elicit energy yet accessible enough to maintain focus.
- Employ appropriate evaluative methods to identify the gap and its substructures between an envisioned end and the current reality.
- Develop clear objectives detailing the changes necessary to move an organization from existing realities to the realization of the vision.
- Create effective strategies for reaching stated objectives.