Innovative management - free course from the Russian School of Management, training, date: December 4, 2023.

Strategy. Business transformation. Balanced Scorecard
• Assessing the current strategic position, identifying possible options for business transformation.
• Analysis of industry development trends and the region where the company operates.
• Assessing the current strategic position and key risks.
• Identification of areas of strategic problems.
• Assessing the effectiveness of the organization of key business processes.
• Analysis of options for strategic development of the company.
• Assessment of development opportunities in terms of available resources and operating technologies.
• Development of strategic options for business transformation.
• Business optimization in conditions of stabilization of the market situation.
• Business contraction due to a sharp deterioration in the market situation.
• Active development in promising segments.
• Business reengineering with a radical change in strategy.
• Assessing the need and possibilities for using innovative solutions.
• Structuring and formalization of the company's strategic goals in the logic of the balanced scorecard.
• Analysis of available resources and key performance indicators.
• Transformation of strategic goals to the level of processes and projects.
• Interpretation of strategic goals at the level of financial prospects.
• Identification of cause-and-effect relationships between performance indicators.

Business model. Strategic, tactical and operational management of business processes
• The company's business model in the representation of a set of business processes.
• Definition of a complete set of business processes of the organization and their detailing into components.
• Identification of factors of non-optimality and inconsistency of business processes.
• Designing target performance indicators for each component (process).
• Transformation of goals and to the process level.
• Application of the matrix of distribution of powers and responsibilities in the business process management system.
• Synthesis of target (innovative) business models and business processes taking into account: development strategy, performance targets, available resources and operational technologies.
• Implementation of targeted (innovative) business models and business processes.
• Forecasting and planning (tactical, operational).
• Synchronization of business processes through the development of a system of tactical and operational planning.
• Design and implementation of an interconnected planning system: in volumetric (quantitative), nomenclature, financial parameters.
• Identification of problem areas in the system of tactical and operational planning of one's own organization.
• Designing an organization model in the form of “technological stages”.
• Transformation of strategic level plans to the tactical level.
• Synchronization of tactical and operational level plans.
• Introduction of a system of interconnected forecasting and planning.
• Strategic Development Service. Company development platform. Functions and resources of the development director.
• Development and implementation of company strategy.
• Unified system of strategic management of the company.
• Strategic session. Stages and format of the strategic session. Planning a strategic session (case studies). Preparatory and organizational work. Information Support. Conducting a strategic session. Materials of the strategic session. Session results. Processing session results.
• Strategy formulation. Development of strategic decisions. Hierarchy of company strategies.

Flexible project management in business
• The place of flexible design approaches in business. Product Development, Customer Development and Lean Startup.
• Business model of the project and business.
• MVP. A minimally working product to find a solution.
• Pivot: when and how a decision or strategy should be changed.
• Agile in project management. Popularity of different Agile approaches.
• Scrum. The concept of Sprint. Roles in Scrum.
• Team members. Functions and required skills.
• Documents in the project: Product backlog. Sprint backlog. Burndown chart.
• Processes: Sprint planning, review and retrospective. Scrum meeting.
• Implementation of Scrum. Problems and solutions.

Project team management
• Project team: composition, structure, characteristics.
• Defining the roles of project team members (according to M. Belbin).
• Tasks of forming a project team.
• Project manager competency model using the “PMI talent triangle” (key skill groups).
• Determining the types of motivation of project team members.
• Tools and methods for project team management.
• Development of interpersonal relationships in the team, effective decision making.
• Features of a remote team.
• Specifics of the role of a manager managing employees remotely.
• Main tasks and difficulties of remote management.
• Main channels of remote communications.
• Overcoming information distortions in remote communication.
• How to establish constructive communication remotely.