Certified Strategy Officer

WHAT IS CERTIFIED STRATEGY OFFICER “CSO-UK” CERTIFICATION?

Certified Strategy Officer “CSO-UK” is a certification for experienced professionals who demonstrate knowledge, skills and competencies in strategy & planning as per the requirements of The BOARD.

Our Certified Officers are game changers, they create new & innovative strategies, new strategic opportunities and new futures to their organizations. They are Fully Capable of deploying effectively various strategic planning tools, are business shrewd with unique skills in problems analysis and solving. They are also strategic change agents as they disrupt the status quo with their new ideas and challenges.

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Learning Outcomes

On completion of this Certification, the Certified Strategy Officer will be able to:

• Analyze the main structural features of an industry and develop strategies that position the firm most favorably in relation to competition and influence industry structure to enhance industry attractiveness.
• Recognize the different stages of industry evolution and recommend strategies appropriate to each stage.
• Appraise the resources and capabilities of the firm in terms of their ability to confer sustainable competitive advantage and formulate strategies that leverage a firm’s core competencies.
• Demonstrate understanding of the concept of competitive advantage and its sources and the ability to recognize it in real-world scenarios.
• Distinguish the two primary types of competitive advantage: cost and differentiation and formulate strategies to create a cost and/or a differentiation advantage.
• Analyze dynamics in competitive rivalry including competitive action and response, first-mover advantage, co-opetition and winner-take-all and make appropriate recommendations for acting both proactively and defensively.
• Formulate strategies for exploiting international business opportunities including foreign entry strategies and international location of production.
• Make recommendations for vertical changes in the boundary of the firm based on an understanding of the advantages of vertical integration and outsourcing and the factors that determine the relative efficiency of each.
• Make recommendations for horizontal changes in the boundary of the firm based on an understanding of the conditions under which diversification creates value.
• Demonstrate the ability to think critically in relation to a particular problem, situation or strategic decision through real-world scenarios.
• Recognize strategic decisions that present ethical challenges and make appropriate recommendations for ethical decision-making.