Strategic Planning: Develop & Plan Effective Strategy (Udemy.com)
Run strategic planning workshops; download and use the StratMap©, StratSnap©, StratAction© and StratGap© strategy tools
Created by: Peter Alkema
Last updated November 2024
What you will learn
- Set up the Governance, Sponsorship, Objective and overall Strategic Map should be agreed with the relevant Executive or Senior Manager
- Setting Up Before Your Strategic Planning Workshop & Learn The StratSnap© & StratMap© Tools
- Focus on 1st order level information with strategic snapshots and constant narrowing of focus
- Define what a solution should deliver to determine beneficial business impact
- Requirements for a successful strategic analysis and design outcome
- Getting the right Governance in place: role of the Sponsor
- Who Should Be The Delegates For The Strategic Workshop
- Case Study Strategic Planning: Leadership Crisis Defused
- Determine the objectives, essence, focus and critical issues to solve
- Learn The StratSnap Critical Issues SnapShot process
- Critical Factors: Determination, Characteristics & More
- Setting Up The StratSnap Tool For Your Strategic Planning Workshop
How it compares
Against the other 1,210 rated Udemy courses in Business on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.0 out of 5higher than 3% of them
- Reviews199#941 of 1,211 by number of reviews
- Length5 hourslonger than 70% of them
- Last updatedNovember 2024earlier than 65% of them
Course Description
“James, you really know what strategy is, and what work you have to do, to do it.” – Michael Utvich (Automotive Industry Strategy Consultant)
“Your process has been quite amazing. And as everybody has said, your approach and your tools have actually assisted us to arrive at this point in time so quickly.” – Tina E (Group Managing Director)
“I came away from it with a much clearer vision, new feasible and achievable objectives and in particular what was on the hearts of my staff in these most difficult of times.” – Louis Fourie (OHS Consultancy)
“I found this exceptionally valuable.” – Gerhard S (Group Executive)
What is the value of an actionable strategic plan, effectively executed? What percentage increase in revenue/market share/EBITDA do you want to achieve over 3 years? What value would you attach to a method, training and tools that enabled you to achieve this?
In this online course learn about what strategic thinking really is and how you should approach the strategic planning process in your organisation. Dr Robertson draws on his economics, engineering and military experience to present a very structured and systematic strategic mindset.
Learn and apply the concepts, tools and methods that will help you quickly and accurately analyze your strategic environment. Learn how to approach the development of a detailed, prioritized strategic action plan that will guide your organization in delivering the value you know is there.
In this course you will get:
The StratMap© and StratSnap© strategy tools for preparing and managing your workshop as well as harvesting and analysing critical planning information
Demonstration lessons on these tools showing you how to use them as part of the strategic planning process you will learn
Lessons about running strategic planning workshops in a micro-learning format; each lesson presents 3-5 executive learning outcomes that you can immediately apply and take advantage of in your business
A systematic and structured approach to the development of strategic plans; a no-nonsense direct message that cuts through the hype of strategic consulting
An overview of the strategic planning process; the tools and method, governance, focus questions, strategic map, how to approach brainstorming, synthesis of critical factors and the right mindset for converting critical factors into an implementation plan
A full understanding of what strategy is, what it is not and how it actually drives business success
Case studies that help you understand the essence of strategic thinking so that you have practical reference points for the concepts and definitions that are taught in this course
Enrol today so that you can learn and apply data-driven, software enabled methods that are based on the essence of true strategy for fundamental and long lasting transformational change in your organisation. Take advantage of Dr James Roberston's decades of experience and straight talking teaching.
Instructor Details
- 4.0 Rating
199 Reviews
Peter Alkema
"What an amazing course! After finishing this course, I have confidence. Thank so much Dr Peter Alkema" ... "This is exactly the jump-start I needed. Very clear and concise"
I lead Digital Transformation & Architecture at ABB and I've been featured on CNBC Africa and won the Gartner CIO Of The Year in 2016. I founded and led the largest banking hackathon in South Africa which was published in 2019 as a case study by Harvard Business School.
I've taught over 100,000 students about technology, business, academics and self-development. In 2020 I completed my PhD at Wits University In Johannesburg. The study introduced a ground-breaking theory of Agile software development teams. My woodworking book was published in 2014 and has sold over 10,000 copies.
Olugbenga Gbadegesin: "Excellent delivery" / Lebogang Tswelapele: "This is what I have been longing for" / Paskalia Ndapandula: "Peter speaks with so much clarity" / Amantle Mangwedi: "It was straight to the point and the sections are cut into nice short segments which made it easier to go through" Kathy Bermudez: "Excellent material. Well organized..."
Werner van Wyk: "Thank you Peter, once again your lesson and course have given me so much knowledge and understanding" / Yvonne Rudolph "I really look forward to take everything i learned in action" / Josephine Mahlangu: "exactly what I needed to know, absolutely valuable and helpful for my personal growth"
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Reviews
By Temitope Olumuyiwa Alabi on 12/9/2025
It is a new approach to learning strategic planning. The phrase strategy helps an organisation discover itself is a catch for me
By Mary Jane Rosales on 9/17/2025
The videos keep jumping to the next lesson even if the discussion is not yet finished. Can you resolve this please?
By Mduduzi Nkosi on 6/15/2024
Indeed is a good course even though I am not fully involved in strategic planning and an M&E Officer, nevertheless the concept and content were super with the spreadsheet analysis.
By Bimbola on 12/8/2023
Before taking the course, I noticed a lot of the reviews sounded upset . I took the course and understand - the delivery. The delivery was very poor. BUT..guys! if you can overlook the delivery this is all you need to be a rock star in facilitating strategic planning sessions. This is Exec level stuff! Great job BUT please revise the course and make it more engaging. Use "real world" examples from an industry e.g Electric Utilities . I wont be asking for a refund because its contains loads of nuggets.
By Mohammed Hamzeh on 9/24/2023
The instructor is reading from slides and this is not a way of giving a training course. There are many sessions teaching you copy paste and Excel - this is a waste of time
By Angela Chimboza on 6/29/2023
This course gives a different angle to the subject matter I am interested in and have some idea on.
By Chris Rose on 1/17/2023
Dr. James A Robertson is the most boring presenter I've ever read. I've heard about 'slide readers' before, but Dr. Robertson, literally reads the slide word for word. He doe not tell the story behind the slides. He's simply not adding value in his presentations.
By Abdulaziz Almalki on 11/13/2022
I took this course to learn more about Strategy development process, my experince in this couse is so excllent so far
By Inez Joy Rutenberg on 3/3/2022
I am loving this... Some great tips to keep in mind when presenting to an audience.
By Darpana on 1/18/2022
Great insights - loved the tools with simple examples that make you understand clearly what the objective to pre and post the Strategic Planning Session
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Overall Score : 80 / 100












