Strategic Thinking - Bronze
Issued by
Cranfield University
This Bronze module on Strategic Thinking is the first of three levels that provides learning up to Masters level. The module introduces learners to the main principles of strategic thinking. Starting with foundations of complexity thinking, learners explore the strategic challenge of balancing innovation and efficiency, and start to work out answers to the 5 Key Questions for an organisation, and think through actions that a leader can take to move an organisation in the desired direction.
- Type Learning
- Level Foundational
- Time Hours
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Complexity worldview and its implications in organisational strategy
- Five key questions for strategic thinking in a complex world
- Guided emergence of organisational strategy
- Organisational ambidexterity
- Potential solutions to the challenge of ambidexterity
- Variation, Selection and Retention in organisational processes
Earning Criteria
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Learners complete activities for each of the skills described. To gain the Bronze badge learners complete all content and submit a reflective report about a significant change they want to achieve. Learners reflect on what they need to consider to achieve the change, how they can make success more likely and what personal qualities they may need to develop.