Advanced Business Strategy: Gaining a Competitive Edge
What You’ll Learn If you’ve reached an inflection point in your career where you’re making increasingly important strategic decisions, this advanced strategy program will prepare you for these challenges. This offering provides you with tools and frameworks for developing a …
- London
- Next: 29 Dec - 3 Jan 2026
- 5 Days
- From 5,100.00 + VAT
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| 04 May 2026 | 467 | Oxford Executive Institute | 12/04/2026 11:22 AM | Oxford Executive Institute | 12/04/2026 11:22 AM | Barcelona | 5 Days | £6,375.00 |
| 04 May 2026 | 468 | Oxford Executive Institute | 12/04/2026 11:22 AM | Oxford Executive Institute | 12/04/2026 11:22 AM | Milan | 5 Days | £6,375.00 |
| 04 May 2026 | 469 | Oxford Executive Institute | 12/04/2026 11:22 AM | Oxford Executive Institute | 12/04/2026 11:22 AM | Athens | 5 Days | £6,375.00 |
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What You’ll Learn
If you’ve reached an inflection point in your career where you’re making increasingly important strategic decisions, this advanced strategy program will prepare you for these challenges.
This offering provides you with tools and frameworks for developing a competitive business strategy. Learn how to maximize your strategic advantage and create industry disruption with an integrated, sustainable business model. Expand your ability to analyse market and cost dynamics. Gain insights into the financial profiles of different business models.
Through a carefully designed sequence of business cases, interactive discussions, presentations, and group exercises, you will learn what gives winning organizations their edge in terms of competitive strategy and organizational agility.
Program Benefits
- Construct a competitive business strategy based on sustainable economic advantages and operational alignment
- Analyze the quadrants of your business model, employing field-tested tools and techniques
- Communicate strategic business choices using language and concepts you can share to build buy-in
- Prepare for the full spectrum of strategic challenges and opportunities that leaders face
- Earn a Certificate of Participation from the Oxford Executive Institute.
Topics Covered
- Designing and analysing business models
- Assessing the competitive landscape, including cracks in others’ business models
- Identifying sources of sustainable cost and differentiation advantage
- Evaluating financial footprints and the different paths to profitability
- Relating product uptake to revenue models and investment strategy
- Connecting operational and strategic cost drivers
- Preparing for strategic disruption and organizational realignment
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Who Should Enrol
This program is ideal for:
- Senior leaders who want to gain new insights into business strategy, market dynamics, and competitive advantage
- Leaders moving into new roles where they need to anticipate the complex, interconnected implications of strategic decisions
- Strategy and finance professionals who want to expand their toolkit related to business design and dynamics
- While no specific training is required, ideally, participants will have previously studied strategy or attended a program on the fundamentals of strategy. Participants should also have a fundamental understanding of business economics.
Logistics
- Other locations and dates can be arranged subject to trainer availability.
- All programs are run in city centre first class hotels
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Our trainers are active practitioners and recognized industry experts, bringing real-world insight directly into the classroom. Each trainer has a minimum of 15 years of professional experience, with many offering up to 50 years of senior-level and executive expertise across their respective fields.
They combine deep industry knowledge with extensive training and facilitation experience, ensuring that every programme is practical, relevant, and immediately applicable. Having worked at the highest levels of business, government, and professional practice, our trainers understand the realities, challenges, and strategic demands faced by today’s leaders.
At Oxford Executive Institute, our trainers do more than teach theory — they translate experience into actionable learning, delivering engaging, results-driven programmes that reflect current industry practices and global standards of excellence.
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