Strategy, Risk, and Finance: Why We Do What We Do

This seminar will help participants define their organization's strategy and particularly their sustainable competitive advantage by helping them understand their organization's unique value proposition. It will also help you and your organization understand how decisions are made and to help improve the quality of the decisions required to execute their strategy. Finally, it will help identify and hopefully mitigate risks to the execution of their organization's strategy. We will also look at ways to find your company's unique value proposition and to measure your success at creating a sustainable competitive advantage.

Corporate Financial Leaders, Corporate Financial Managers, CEOs, CFOs, Controllers, Board members, accountants, business owners, risk managers, accounting managers, entrepreneurs, consultants, advisors, and the professionals who advise them.

We will also look at ways to find your company’s unique value proposition and to measure your success at creating a sustainable competitive advantage.

• Why do most strategic plans fail?

 • Why so many formerly strong organizations have failed

 • The risks of a poor plan

 • Why most organizations have a poor strategic plan and how to correct this

• The many risks that must be addressed: Financial risk, execution risk, commercial, business, and strategic risks as well as commonly overlooked risks

 • How we effectively manage risk determines the success of our organizations

 • How Behavioral Economics will help address the risk

 • Understanding human nature and our decision-making process

 • Traps to avoid and improvements we can make so our decisions improve

 • Several tools and techniques to better prepare for and analyze risk

• Why Finance must lead the strategic planning effort