Strategic Management and Leadership
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1What Is Strategy: Unlocking Competitive Advantage20 Minutes
What Is Strategy: Unlocking Competitive Advantage
Strategy is the art and science of defining how an organization competes, achieves its goals, and sustains success. It aligns company strengths, values, and opportunities with societal expectations to build long-term advantage. Unlike tactics, which are short-term actions, strategy provides the overarching blueprint for direction and differentiation.
At the business level, strategy focuses on how to compete within an industry, while corporate strategy determines which businesses to be in and how to manage them. Firms can pursue cost leadership (efficiency and low cost), differentiation (unique value creation), or focus strategies (niche markets). Failure to choose leads to being “stuck in the middle.”
Porter’s Five Forces—new entrants, buyers, suppliers, substitutes, and rivalry—explain industry competitiveness, while Blue Ocean Strategy encourages creating uncontested markets through value innovation.
A strong strategy depends on strategic fit, where all activities reinforce each other for sustainable advantage, as seen in Southwest Airlines’ integrated cost model. Finally, at the corporate level, frameworks like the Ansoff Matrix guide growth through market penetration, development, product innovation, or diversification—ensuring alignment between business units and long-term corporate vision.
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2Porter's FiveText lesson
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3Assignment 1 - Porter's FiveAssignment
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4Strategic Positioning & Achieving Strategic FitText lesson
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5Solve the PuzzleText lesson
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6Theories & Models of Strategy7 minutes
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7Competitive Advantage & VRIO FrameworkText lesson
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8LO1 - Quizz 0110 questions
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12Roles of CEOs and Top TeamsText lesson
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13Strategic Leadership StylesVideo lesson
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14Stakeholder Theory - Freemans & MitchellsText lesson
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15The Geopolitics of the Firm - Navigating Stakeholder ConflictText lesson
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16Balancing Immediate Survival with Long-Term ViabilityText lesson
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17Puzzle - Strategic Leadership & Stakeholder AlignmentText lesson
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18Strategic Fit – The Architecture of AlignmentText lesson
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19Strategic Fit: Mastering External and Internal AlignmentVideo lesson
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20Dynamic Capabilities in Turbulent EnvironmentsText lesson
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21Corporate Governance and Strategic AccountabilityText lesson
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22The Strategic Necessity of Trade-offsText lesson
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23The Pathology of Strategic Failure - Diagnosing MisalignmentText lesson
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31Leading Change Under E–P–C PressuresText lesson
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32Transformational Leadership and the Architecture of BreakthroughsText lesson
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33Adaptive Leadership - Heifetz’s ModelVideo lesson
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34Beyond the Bottom Line – The Freeman RevolutionVideo lesson
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35The GLOBE Project and the culturally Contingent LeaderText lesson
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36Economic KPIs - Measuring Change Outcomes under E–P–C FactorsText lesson
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37Political KPIs – Compliance, Stability, and Regulatory ArchitecturesText lesson
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38Cultural KPIs – The Quantified OrganizationText lesson
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39The McKinsey 7S Framework – Alignment in Global ContextVideo lesson
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40The Balanced Scorecard – Adapted to Global StrategyVideo lesson
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41Continuous Improvement – The Engine of Global CompetitivenessText lesson
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42Operational Effectiveness and Strategic ThinkingText lesson
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43Schumpeter’s Creative DestructionVideo lesson
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44Christensen’s Disruptive InnovationVideo lesson
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45Blue Ocean Strategy and Market ReconstructionText lesson
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46Dynamic Capabilities – The Architecture of Evolutionary FitnessText lesson
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47Scenario Planning – Navigating Memories of the FutureText lesson
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48PESTLE & Porter’s Five Forces in Disruptive ContextsVideo lesson
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49Applied Strategic Analysis – The Architecture of Disruption and RenewalText lesson
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50Kotter’s 8-Step Model for Leading ChangeText lesson
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51Lewin’s Change TheoryVideo lesson
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52ADKAR ModelText lesson
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53McKinsey’s 7S FrameworkText lesson
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54Ansoff Matrix & BCG MatrixText lesson
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55Porter’s Generic StrategiesText lesson
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56Contingency Theory & Complexity TheoryText lesson
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57Strategic Implementation and Organizational Evolution: Global MasterclassesText lesson
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58Strategic Resilience - Navigating Risk and Uncertainty in a Global EconomyText lesson
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59Dynamic Strategic Synthesis - Beyond the Static SWOTVideo lesson
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60Strategic Leadership in Global Markets - Advanced Frameworks for UncertaintyText lesson
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61Strategic Architecture - Designing the Ambidextrous Global EnterpriseText lesson
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62The Architecture of Resilience - Leading Through Global TurbulenceText lesson
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63Strategic Mastery in the Global Landscape - Dynamics of Competitive Advantage and ResilienceText lesson
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64Strategic Mastery and the Architecture of Innovation: An MBA Guide to Global LeadershipText lesson
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65The Business Model CanvasVideo lesson
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66Ghemawat’s AAA FrameworkVideo lesson
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67Strategic Mastery and the Architecture of Innovation - A Global Leadership CurriculumText lesson
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68Open Innovation – Strategic Ecosystems and Boundaryless GrowthVideo lesson
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69Design Thinking for Strategy – Solving Wicked Problems through Human-CentricityText lesson
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70Strategic Architectures in Practice – From Linear Value Chains to Global EcosystemsText lesson
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71Strategy to Action: Turning Plans into ResultsText lesson
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72Hoshin Kanri – The Strategic CompassVideo lesson
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73Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) – Orchestrating AgilityText lesson
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74Agile Strategy Execution – Velocity as a Competitive AdvantageVideo lesson
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75Continuous Improvement – Embedding a Culture of Strategic RefinementText lesson
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76Strategic Synthesis – Excellence in Global ExecutionText lesson
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77Stakeholder Theory & IdentificationText lesson
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78Mitchell’s Salience ModelVideo lesson
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79Corporate Governance FrameworksVideo lesson
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80Stakeholder Engagement & Co-creationText lesson
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81ESG Integration into StrategyVideo lesson
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82Communication Frameworks for Stakeholder Buy-inText lesson
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83Strategic Syntheses in the Real WorldText lesson