Business Strategy Development: The Art of Differentiation (Udemy.com)
Learn 3 key business strategy tools. Improve your business innovation skills and drive profitable business development.
Created by: Tony Prouse
Last updated April 2020
What you will learn
- Find ways to stand out from your competitors by differentiating better than them
- Play to your strengths and confidently identify the areas that will grow your business
- Practice 3 strategic tools to strengthen your business strategy
- Avoid common mistakes & learn how top companies have successfully differentiated themselves
- Increase your value - shape a strategy to attract customers that truly value you
- Business Analysis: Fix potential disablers that could be hurting your business development
How it compares
Against the other 1,210 rated Udemy courses in Business on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 46% of them
- Reviews5,595#147 of 1,211 by number of reviews
- Length1.4 hoursshorter than 80% of them
- Last updatedApril 2020earlier than 89% of them
Course Description
Are you interested in learning why some business strategies are better than others?
From Apple to Netflix, leading businesses and start-ups have all made their mark with a strategy that sets them apart
This course is all about learning how leading companies create successful strategies for growth - and then learning the tools and techniques to develop your own brilliant and profitable business strategies
Developing a strategy that can grow a business is an essential skill for any budding entrepreneur - whether as CEO, marketing professional, manager or consultant
Easy-to-Follow Guide
This is your guide to learning business strategy in just a few minutes - with eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can be put to work on Monday morning
With this course you'll get a clear understanding of what makes a winning business strategy, and learn the methods to help you attract devoted customers, but also, do so without having to compete on price all the time
Master The Art of Differentiation
This course teaches you the tools, tips and techniques to help you identify and increase your differentiation so you can successfully stand out and grow your company
It's a valuable skill to learn and in this course you'll soon have it mastered.
Strategic Mentor
Tony Prouse is an enthusiastic and well-respected strategic mentor with over 30 years of hard-earned wisdom. Tony has worked closely with leading institutions such as the Institute for Manufacturing at Cambridge University and helped develop successful strategies for a wide range of organisations and startups all around the world.
Learn Quickly
This is a fun and practical course with plenty of examples which will show you the techniques to take any team, business model, idea, product or service to the next level.
Ready? So, Where Do We Begin?
It starts by identifying what your current competences are - and which ones will enable you to capture greater business. But it’s not just a case of knowing your strengths and weaknesses – Tony will show you how some competences are more important than others!
Create Value for Your Customers and Business
It’s also about understanding how we can create value for our customers - and who those customers should be.
And it's the reason industry leaders have achieved excellent business development.
In addition, Tony will explain the common mistakes, having worked with many businesses around the world for over 30 years - so you can learn from these too.
Enrol now to learn how to:
Define a successful business strategy
Assess how well a business is currently differentiating itself
Identify areas where you can improve your differentiation and innovation
Increase your value and move away from competing purely on price or basic feature
Attract the right customers with a winning business strategy
Identify your core competences - which are often very different to what you currently believe!
Avoid the common pitfalls of differentiation, business strategy and business development
Grow a business in a long-lasting and fun way
Identify potential disablers to your differentiation - and know which ones could be hurting you
Create value for your target customers for a brighter future
This course also includes:
3 Downloadable Tools for Business Strategy to help you assess and build your differentiation and business strategy
Activities + Quizzes to put your knowledge into action immediately
Gain the skills and tools to ultimately improve your differentiation and develop your own successful business strategy - and most importantly, know where to start.
This course is an exciting journey of business strategy discovery for those with the desire to grow.
Let’s get started!
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
5,595 Reviews
Tony Prouse
Successful business strategies & business development starts with clear differentiation.
Tony Prouse is a highly energetic and customer focused business mentor and growth coach. He has a proven track record of facilitating change and developing differentiating business strategies to enable businesses to grow sustainably.
Tony has over 30 years of experience successfully growing established and start-up companies located both in the UK and Europe. Over the last ten years, Tony has focused on helping other businesses to grow, during which he spent five years as an Industrial Fellow for the Institute for Manufacturing at Cambridge University.
Tony enjoys working with management teams to build stronger business strategies, by using a structured, pragmatic and collaborative approach to support. He also provides confidential and focused one-to-one support for business leaders.
Tony particularly likes helping individuals build their business development and business strategy skills so that they can take control of their future - he gets a great sense of achievement as he watches them and their businesses grow.
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Reviews
By Wilma Moiane on 7/8/2025
O curso contém insights e conteúdos muito relevantes, que agregam conhecimento e valores, a metodologia de aprendizado (com atividades práticas e sessão de esclarecimento) permite ter maior imersão nos temas e relacionar com as possíveis aplicações nos dilemas do dia-a-dia.
By Michelle Sullivan on 6/11/2025
This course offers clear, actionable steps to understand and identify business differentiation. These can also be applied to an individual person (i.e., communicating their core competencies in a resume or interview). The instructor also offers clarity in the message delivery. Good value in the knowledge acquired in a short amount of time.
By Fahad Saud Nadeem on 1/4/2024
Thank you very much for considering this course, it's one of my best lectures I have learned and developed my skills of targeting business customers, and which criteria I have chosen to make my announcement of devalopng my business in the right path. Thanks again.
By Daniel Tod on 6/19/2023
Great course for someone trying to move from a technical role into business development/sales role. Helps frame the mindset and was detailed in course content. Did find the examples a little subjective, but they are great simple examples to get you started and practicing.
By Anonymized User on 3/14/2022
I'm not the best at online learning, but I found this session fairly easy to follow and connect with. The most difficult part for me was the independent challenges. It would have been nicer to go through them in the course rather than having me go it alone
By Kathy Brown-Cohen on 11/16/2020
It was an excellent course and one that I picked out and had no idea what it was about but I would have to say it was a great choice. The instructor was very competent of the material and delivered it in a convincing manner. Very informative, I learned so much now to put it into action. Problem with getting the resources because they didn't download. Still waiting for Udemy to make them available hopefully we'll get them.
By Ajay Mishra on 10/19/2020
Very crisp, clear and thought provoking ideas on Differentiation. The best thing I liked was about understanding Why Differentiation is important, its core elements and how to distinguish true differentiating factors. Also, the whole segment about core competencies and its application into business strategy was very insightful.
By Hesham Almutawa on 9/13/2020
I was not expecting the course to be business focused as I found the course in my technology plan. Nevertheless, the content is very informative and important. I have found it very useful to apply it on individual level as well. Thanks for the perspective and your presentation skills. You have made it enjoyable and and easy to follow.
By Anonymized User on 7/3/2020
talking with one way communication relative uninterested. Udemy Indonesia offer this course to Indonesian member. I believe that Udemy Indonesia may offer us with Asian speaker or at least transcription in Indonesian language. I see the other Udemy course is provided with transcription in Indonesian language I do not intent to blame the speaker, as he is European.
By AHMED HAFEZ on 12/1/2019
Its very useful course but I think it needs more details and more activities , Need better simple company example for competence assessment Tool , Targeting Customer part is too short ,need to support more with Templates , However , I Enjoyed a lot and hope I Can apply it Correctly on my company !
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Overall Score : 90 / 100






