Strategic and Business Planning

Intex Management Institute in Partnership with Simmit International Institute - University is pleased to announce an Online and Distance Learning Certificate Course in Strategic and Business Planning from:

Start Date: 15th January 2025

Course End Date: 17th March 2025

Registration Deadline: 14th January 2025

Strategic planning is a process which provides direction and scope of an organization over the long term in order to achieve advantage through effective utilization of resources within a changing environment, market dynamics and stakeholder expectations.  On the other hand a business plan is developed to actualize the strategic plan.

Aim of the course

• To assist the strategic management team in developing practical strategies for establishing, promoting and sustaining change in their organization to enable them to achieve strategic targets 
• To raise awareness of fixed patterns of behavior embedded responses and bias that enable us to take shortcuts but can make it difficult to shift our percent
• To encourage a move pragmatic style of leadership & management that encourages employees to work towards, rather than against the desired organizational future

Course Content

• Reviewing the Vision, Mission/mandate and core values of an organization
• PESTEL situational and analysis
• State holders analysis
• SWOT analysis
• Establish key result areas/thematic areas
• Defining objectives
• How to develop strategies to achieve the stated objectives
• Activities to actualize strategies
• Establish outputs indicators and budget implications
• Strategies for Resource Mobilization
• Action plans
• Monitoring and evaluation framework
• Risk analysis and mitigation

Course Outcome
The course will help the leaner on:
The importance of strategic and business planning
Step by step strategic and business Planning
How to develop SWOT, PESTEL, Situational and Stakeholder Analysis
How to develop an Implementation Matrix
Financing, M & E framework
Incorporating risk management framework

Eligibility
All heads of department in organizations, General Managers, Finance Managers, HR/Administration Management, Teams in Research and Development, Operations, Technical, Commercial, Fleet Management, Audit, Security, Sales and Marketing, Project Management, Communications and Public Relations, Bank Officers, Credit Control, Company Secretaries And Legal Advisors, Contractors, Procurement and other who want to enhance their skills in strategic and Business Planning  .

Course Organizers

Intex Management Institute was registered in 1983. We have been offering a wide range of Human Resource Management training programs both online and open workshops, building capacity to enhance effective service delivery for NGOs, CBOs, Public and Private sector.

 Currently we are training participants from various organizations such as UNDP – Burundi, World Food Programme – Zimbabwe, Red Cross – South Sudan, State Ministry of Education – South Sudan, MEDAIR – South Sudan, AAH - South Sudan, CRF - South Sudan, Norwegian Refugee – Liberia, Zenab for Women Development - Sudan, Action AID, Word Health Organization, AMREF, USAID, National AIDs Control Council, International Committee of the Red Cross among others.

Training Methodology:

• All training materials will be availed through online or distance learning
• Your commitment time: 5 – 6 hours per week
• Learn at your own time schedule
• You will receive weekly feedback from our committed instructors
• You are expected to submit weekly assignments electronically
• At the end of the course you will be issued with a certificate

Other Requirements

• You will be required to use email, upload and download documents in word, power point or PDF format
• Send assignments by email
• have access to the internet.

Learning Materials
Course materials, Exercises and templates will be provided.

Course Exercises
Students are required to test their own learning by completing exercises and tasks for each unit of the course.

Course Assignments
Students will be required to submit four assignments to demonstrate their understanding of the course content.

Benefits to Our Learners

• Have confidence that the Course is credible and has high standards from a credible University
• Know their programme has been designed at the right level, meets its intended outcomes and its assessment methods are robust, secure and appropriate
• On successful completion they gain Authenticated Diploma from Summit International Institute a chartered University in Burundi
• Certificate with Summit International Institute branding and, a global leader in training that adds permanent value to their learning
• Graduands will attend Graduation Ceremony at Summit International Institute - University at Bujumbura - Burundi during the month of December. Date will be communicated to the graduands

Course Duration      :           8 weeks (2 months)
Target Region           :           Global
Course Fee               :           USD 400
Language                 :           English
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