Gain a Competitive Advantage with Strategic Management Training

In today's volatile and uncertain business landscape, achieving a sustainable competitive advantage requires more than traditional strategy. It requires strategic agility, creative thinking, and the ability to harness new technologies and data. Our strategy programs provide you with the essential tools to: 

  • Analyze market transformations and technology-driven shifts.

  • Develop and evaluate effective strategies that thrive in dynamic and sustainable business environments.

  • Adapt to change proactively while fostering creative problem-solving.

Develop your strategic leadership skills and future-proof your business in an era of technological disruption, sustainability imperatives, and creative renewal.

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As part of the unique multi-disciplinary Aalto University, Aalto EE has taken an ambitious approach to help organizations navigate climate change mitigation, geoeconomics, and technology changes. Our tailored, systematic approach helps you to understand each phenomenon, gain tools to analyze them and take advantage of the opportunities in these transitions. We will help you contextualize global phenomena within your specific reality, making the broad themes relevant and actionable. This downloadable PDF file will give you an overview of our systematic approach.

Overview of Leading in Triple Transition Concept

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You will find an overview of our systematic approach in this downloadable PDF file.

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With over 50 years of experience, Aalto EE develops world-class competence development solutions that utilize Aalto University’s multidisciplinary faculty and approach.

We co-create with organizations' impactful and inspirational training solutions and help our customers to address current and future business challenges.

 

Aalto EE's customized solutions are an impressive way to renew organizations and competencies, ensure strategy implementation, and build a new competitive advantage. Together with our corporate clients, we design and implement customized training where all aspects are always organized according to the customer's needs.

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Strategic Planning: Charting the Future of Your Company

Strategic planning extends beyond goal setting. It involves problem-solving, defining competitive space, and developing unique competencies. It's about navigating global competition and charting a course for sustainable success. Strategic management integrates various organizational functions, from finance and marketing to leadership and innovation. It requires both analysis and leadership across three interconnected levels to ensure coherent strategy implementation:

  1. Leadership and people
  2. Competition and strategy formulation
  3. Organizational capabilities and resources

Develop a Global Strategic Perspective and Enhance Strategic Insight for Leaders 

Our strategic management programs are designed to significantly enhance your performance in key executive roles and equip you with the essential competence and practical tools for high-level contribution in executive teams and boardrooms. You will: 

  • Gain a fresh perspective on business strategy.
  • Acquire actionable tools to develop and test strategies effectively
  • Develop your ability to lead and implement strategy with greater impact.

Our advanced management training programs are ideally suited for

  • Senior executives: Individuals in top leadership positions seeking to enhance their strategic thinking skills, strategic decision-making abilities, and global business acumen for sustained organizational success.
  • Managers in transition: Professionals moving into senior management roles who need to develop their strategic decision-making competence and direction-setting skills within their company, business unit, or division.
  • Corporate strategists: Those responsible for shaping and implementing company or business strategies, aiming to stay ahead of industry trends, enhance strategic adaptability, and drive innovation.
  • Forward-thinking leaders: Executives who want to broaden their strategic perspective, exchange insights on strategic challenges and opportunities, and connect with a diverse network of senior leaders across various industries.

Meet Our Faculty

Eero Vaara

Eero Vaara is Professor in Organisations and Impact at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford in UK, and visiting Distinguished Professor at Aalto University.

Professor Vaara has a PhD in Economics from the Helsinki School of Economics and MSc degrees from Helsinki University of Technology and Helsinki School of Economics. Eero Vaara’s research interests focus on organizational, strategic and institutional change, strategic practices and processes, multinational corporations and globalization, and methodological and philosophical issues. He is generally regarded as one of the world’s leading scholars in postmerger integration. His research has been published in the very leading journals of the field, and he has authored several books. He is now serving as an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Journal. 

Timo Vuori

Timo Vuori is an Associate Professor, Strategic Management at Aalto University School of Science, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.

Professor Timo O. Vuori is a strategy consultant and professor at Aalto University. His research on the psychological aspects of strategic management has been published in leading international journals and won several international awards. He has taught and presented his research at leading universities like Harvard and INSEAD. 

Professor Vuori's research and teaching focus on how companies formulate and execute strategies. He has written two books with senior business executives on these topics. "Living Strategy" describes scenario-based strategy making in an ever-changing world. "Platform Strategy" describes how incumbent firms should and can renew themselves in the digital era. The books detail both the "hard" factors, such as technology and business models, and "soft" factors, such as people and psychology, influencing strategy and renewal.  

Professor Vuori works extensively with companies, often collaborating with a leading strategy consulting company. Vuori helps the client organization formulate and evaluate several strategic options in strategy formulation projects. He uses advanced psychological techniques to help leaders unleash their strategic creativity and overcome thinking myopias and personal biases. This approach is based on his cutting-edge international research, also described in the Platform Strategy. 

In strategy execution projects, Professor Vuori specializes in helping the client firm optimize the psychological engagement of the whole organization. He analyses the psychological impact of the intended strategy execution program and modifies it to maximally leverage the emotions of the organization's members' for effectiveness.

Contact Us

Maria Karsten

Business Unit Director +358 10 837 3730 maria.karsten@aaltoee.fi

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