Empower Your Strategic Vision
As a leader of a growing company, you are continually focused on finding and pursuing new opportunities to maintain and accelerate momentum. Your challenges are compounded by the rapidly changing and turbulent environment in which your firm operates. To survive and prosper in such settings, you must learn to think strategically about the forces impacting your organization and the actions you must take in response. Thus, strategic planning is concerned with envisioning how markets are evolving and deciding how best to procure and allocate resources which can help you to be a player in those markets. An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Strategic Planning is a workshop designed to provide participants with hands-on training in methods used to support effective strategic decision making. Strategic decisions are those which define a firm’s future direction and shape the necessary allocation of resources to attain longer term objectives. Participants will have the opportunity to work with and apply various strategic tools and techniques to their own organizational situations. Particular emphasis will be placed upon tools for evaluating your firm’s external environment for critical opportunities and threats and internal environment for an assessment of key strengths and weaknesses. You will use the insights generated from these tools to formulate a strategic vision for your organization and a strategic plan designed to attain that vision. This program is designed for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs of growing organizations who wish to bring new products and services into the marketplace through innovation and creativity. Are currently seeking new avenues for growth. Desire to move their companies to pursue new opportunities within their existing markets. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Strategic Planning workshop will encompass a series of lectures, discussions, experiential exercises and a case study all designed to enable you to introduce a culture of strategic thinking into your own organization. From this experience, you will take away a set of tools you can use with your own people to develop a comprehensive strategic assessment of where your firm is today, where it desires to be tomorrow and action plans to get you from here to there, and the knowledge to implement those tools. Facilitator Dr. Alex F. DeNoble is a Professor of Management at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. As a Director in the Center for the Commercialization of Advanced Technologies, he is in charge of the Entrepreneurship Academic Program, the Venture Challenge International Business Plan Competition and serves as a Board Member for the Center for the Commercialization of Advanced Technologies. His research has been published in various journals including the Journal of Business Venturing, the Journal of High Technology Management Research and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice. Dr. DeNoble's other professional activities encompass both executive training and strategic management. Recent clients include Banco Nacional de Commercio Exterior (the National Export Bank of Mexico), NEC Electronics USA, and Shell Technology Ventures. Dr. DeNoble was recently recognized by Ernst and Young as an Entrepreneur of the Year recipient in the Supporter of Entrepreneurship category and by the Price-Babson Fellows Program as a recipient of the Gloria and Edwin Appel Prize for Excellence in Entrepreneurship Education. Dr. DeNoble has a B.A. in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts, a Masters in Accounting, and a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Official Information Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Time: 9:00 am Registration deadline: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 Location: President Hotel Blue Room, 2nd Floor Language: English and Russian (with Simultaneous Translation) Fee: $150 (inc. VAT, materials and coffee breaks) Information: contact@cfe.ru
Key Partner Organizations
The Center for Entrepreneurship facilitates a wide range of educational and networking opportunities for entrepreneurs worldwide. The Price-Babson Fellows Program recognizes excellence in entrepreneurship education and fosters a global network of educators and mentors. Ernst and Young plays a pivotal role in supporting entrepreneurial initiatives through awards and recognition programs, alongside consultancy and advisory services tailored to foster business growth and innovation. Furthermore, Shell Technology Ventures supports innovation and entrepreneurship in the field of technology, fostering advancements that drive the future of businesses. These organizations provide essential support systems and resources that enable entrepreneurs to grow and navigate the complexities of the modern business landscape effectively.