Strategy into action
Judgement, AI, public realm strategy and implementation.
Half a day exploring how strategy becomes results: top team judgement and bias, what AI changes, devolution reform, Target Operating Models and making implementation stick.
- Level
- Explore
- Learning time
- 4 hours
- Where
- Strategic Thinking
- Price
- £129
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Senior leaders and top teams in reorganising public services
Overview
Strategy into action follows strategic choice from the minds of the people making it to the organisation that must deliver it. It opens with judgement: Kahneman's two systems, bias at board level and Dr Jonathan Huish's Cranfield research on top teams, followed by what AI changes for strategic decision-making. It then treats the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 as a live strategic problem, moves from strategy to structure through Target Operating Models, and examines why implementation breaks down. Three documented cases, from the London Congestion Charge to Orsted, test the whole toolkit.
Aims
This programme aims to help senior leaders and top teams carry strategy through to results, combining sharper collective judgement and thoughtful use of AI with the organisational design and implementation discipline needed to close the gap between what is decided and what actually changes.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Assess how bias, top team dynamics and AI shape strategic judgement, and apply debiasing habits in your own leadership forums.
- Analyse public sector reform as a strategic-choice problem and design a Target Operating Model that follows from your strategy.
- Plan implementation with clear ownership, fewer priorities and honest review, using documented cases to anticipate where delivery may stall.
What you'll develop
Across this Explore, you will develop the ability to:
- Distinguish System 1 from System 2 thinking and identify when a strategic question is being answered by the wrong one.
- Describe the three practical shifts AI brings to strategy work and explain why none of them makes the choice for you.
- Distinguish what new legislation mandates from what it leaves open to local choice and what is easily missed.
- Explain Chandler's finding that structure follows strategy and identify when a proposed reorganisation reverses that sequence.
- Identify which of the four breakdown points, ownership, translation, competing priorities or review, is undermining a strategy and describe the remedy for each.
- Identify which frameworks, including the Strategic Choice Approach, Cynefin, Five Forces, Blue Ocean and Rumelt's kernel, were in play in each of the three cases.
Built from 3 parts.
4 hours of learning.
- 01Judgement in a changing worldCognitive bias, judgement and AI in strategyBitesize2 modules
- 02Shaping the organisationOrganisation design and target operating modelsBitesize2 modules
- 03Making it stickStrategy implementation and deliveryBitesize2 modules
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Part of the Strategic Thinking topic, also sold whole as The strategic mind.
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- You are hereExplore, 4 hours, £129
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When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms