Course Code: MGLD 131
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Business Analysis, Decision Making and Developing a Strategy
Course Sector:
Management and Leadership
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28 Jul - 01 Aug 2025
5 Days
Dubai, UAE
$4,250
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29 Dec 2025 - 02 Jan 2026
5 Days
Abu Dhabi, UAE
$4,250
Introduction
Training course introducion / brief

Today's business world believes that successful business analysis helps to expect, understand and identify the needs necessary for its growth, and contributes to enhancing the effective strategic decision-making process, which turns into an integrated plan that enables organizations to achieve the desired progress goals.

This training program is designed to enable participants to understand effective strategic analysis process Tips and Tricks and lead them to develop an integrated decision-making process, besides helping them to create the strategy that leads their organizations toward achieving sustainable success.

Course Objectives
At the end of the training course, participants will be able to

  •       Understand The Role of the successful Business Analyst.
  •       Master Applying Strategic Analysis Tools and Techniques.
  •       Identify and understand the industry’s trends and key success factors.
  •       Master applying Competitors' analysis Tips and tricks,
  •       Master analyzing resources and competencies of Businesses.
  •       Understand and apply the Resource auditing process. 
  •       Use Mapping to strengthen organizational resources and competencies.
  •       Understand how to Get to the right analysis data.
  •       Understand how to research.
  •       Master Develop and measure the strategic options.
  •       Understand the key success factor for the strategic decision maker.
  •       Understand the Factors which influence our natural decision-making.
  •       Merge strategic analysis and decision-making together in an extraordinary strategy.

Course Audience
Who is this course for, and can benefit the most
This course is designed for all professionals who are involved in business analysis, decision making and strategy planning process. 
Course Outline
The course aims and learning outcomes

Introduction to Business Analysis: The Role of the Business Analyst

  •       The business analyst’s scope of work 
  •       Business analysts as internal consultants 
  •       Active data gathering 
  •       An overview of strategic thinking
  •       The three big strategic questions
  •       Practical Application.

Strategic analysis Tools and Techniques:

  •       The 5 Cs of strategic analysis
  •       Porter's 5 forces impact Potential Industry Earnings (PIE)
  •       Creating and capturing value 
  •       Conducting SWOT analysis 
  •       PEDESTL framework
  •       Practical Application.

Perfecting Strategic analysis Tools and Techniques:

  •       Industry life cycle analysis.
  •       Strategic group analysis
  •       How to Identify and understand your industry’s trends?
  •       Competitors analysis Tips and tricks,
  •       How to Identify key success factors in your industry?
  •       Case Studies (For all Analysis Strategies).
  •       Practical Application.

How to analyze resources and competences of your Business?

  •       What is Resource auditing process? And how to apply it? 
  •       Identifying your business Core competences.
  •       Value chain analysis.
  •       Use Mapping to strengthen your organizational resources and competences.
  •       How to apply all these concepts in your organization? “Practical Application”.
  •       Case Studies.

Getting into Business: Conducting Analyses 

  •       Getting the right data
  •       Types of research
  •       Primary research development
  •       Secondary research development 
  •       Using pivot tables for analysis 
  •       Introduction to pivoting tables 
  •       Creating pivot tables
  •       Customizing pivot tables 
  •       Performing calculations within pivot tables
  •       Creating calculated fields 
  •       Creating calculated items 
  •       Using cell references and name ranges
  •       Managing pivot table calculations
  •       Practical Application.

Your Guide to Develop strategic options:

  •      The importance of developing strategic options “with case studies”.
  •       Develop strategic options using:
  •        Portfolio analysis.
  •       Product/Market analysis.
  •       Develop strategic options to Protect your current advantage.
  •       How to insure that your strategic options fit your market needs and organization’s Goals? (With Case studies) 
  •       Measure the effectiveness of your options.
  •       Practical Application.

The Psychology of Strategic Decision Making:

  •       How to be a strategic decision maker?
  •       Analytical Decision-Making Techniques
  •       What are the barriers of strategic Decision making?
  •       Improving strategic decision making Techniques:
  •       Brainstorming.
  •      Mind Mapping
  •      Dialectic inquiry.
  •      Devil’s advocacy.
  •      Scenario building.




Perfecting Strategic Decision making:

  •       Factors which influence our natural decision-making
  •       Quality problems with intuitive decision-making processes
  •       Assess the efficiency of decisions.
  •       Case Studies.
  •       Practical Application.

 

Merging strategic analysis and decision-making together in an extraordinary strategy:

  •            Understand the key success factors of the perfect strategy.
  •            Use strategic analysis to identify your core business proposition.
  •            Develop the suitable Vision and Mission.
  •            Identify your organization’s key strategic priorities.
  •            Design strategic objectives.
  •           Mapping your strategic decisions to achieve business objectives “Practical Application”

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Our Training programs are implemented by combining the participants' academic knowledge and practical practice (30% theoretical / 70% practical activities).

At The end of the training program, Participants are involved in practical workshop to show their skills in applying what they were trained for. A detailed report is submitted to each participant and the training department in the organization on the results of the participant's performance and the return on training. Our programs focus on exercises, case studies, and individual and group presentations.

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