Value Creation: Developing Strategy and Decision Making

Turning Strategy, Performance, and Insight into Sustainable Business Value

Sustainable value creation requires more than short-term financial performance. Organisations need to align governance, financial discipline, people, processes, data, and customer strategy around decisions that strengthen competitiveness and support long-term growth.

The Value Creation: Developing Strategy and Decision Making course provides participants with practical frameworks for understanding value drivers, evaluating performance, improving strategic decisions, and overcoming barriers to growth. Across five days, participants explore governance, financial analysis, workforce strategy, innovation, data-driven decision-making, knowledge management, marketing, and value measurement.

The programme helps leaders connect strategic thinking with measurable outcomes, enabling them to make better-informed decisions and build stronger value propositions for shareholders, customers, employees, and other stakeholders.

You'll Learn How To

• Explain the principles of value creation and their role in business strategy.
• Connect corporate value with shareholder and stakeholder expectations.
• Evaluate governance and agency-related challenges.
• Apply financial analysis to identify key value drivers.
• Interpret profitability, liquidity, efficiency, and leverage indicators.
• Use Economic Value Added to assess business performance.
• Recognise early indicators of financial distress.
• Align workforce strategy with long-term value creation.
• Identify barriers to value creation and develop practical responses.
• Use innovation to support growth and organisational performance.
• Apply data and knowledge management to strategic decisions.
• Develop structured frameworks for data-driven decision-making.
• Understand how data security can affect corporate value.
• Integrate customer insight, marketing, and finance into value creation strategies.
• Measure and communicate value creation using meaningful performance indicators.