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BSBLDR811 Lead strategic transformation workshop

  Welcome to our third unit for 2025, BSBLDR811 Lead strategic transformation. BSBLDR811 workshop notes week 1 to 2 Week 1: Saturday 19Jul25 This unit is, as the name suggests, about driving change in our business - taking on a new strategic direction and making this transition successful. In the last unit, we analysed and assessed projects that had been proposed, developing a decision-making framework to accept or reject proposed projects. We discussed why firms need to undertake projects - as endeavours to bring about change within its business in response to existing or expected changes in its operating environment. These changes in the firm's operating environment can come from anywhere, but a useful way of classifying them is to examine elements in the firm's macro-environment, which can conveniently be grouped in the following categories: political economic social technological legal ecological/ environmentally sustainable. In examining this macro-environment and then be...

BSBPMG810 Prioritise projects and programs 26Apr25 to 28Jun25

Welcome to our second unit for 2025, BSBPMG810 Prioritise projects and programs These are some of the docs we'll use for the assessment task 2: Go to the bottom of the blog to see the sample docs from the last workshop BSBPMG810 workshop notes weeks 1-7 Numbat strategic objectives FY25/26 Numbat financial info 31May25 Numbat ebikes organogram Numbat ebikes mission statement Numbat executive committee profiles Week 1: Saturday 26Apr25 In the workshop, we'll look at a very short article when discussing the differences between doing tasks when working on projects and doing tasks when working in operations: Back to Basics: How Are Projects Different from Operations? We'll discuss why projects have become a greater part of our modern workplaces and working lives, across all industries and roles. This will lead us into a good Harvard Business Review article. It is quite long so we'll read it in parts, with worksheets to assist us in understanding the concepts discussed. Arti...

BSBSTR803 Establish business continuity management strategies weeks 1-8

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Welcome to the first unit of the Grad Dip of Strategic Leadership for 2025 at NSW Higher Education: Establish business continuity management strategies This first unit deals with business continuity - planning for potential disruptions to a firm's operations and projects, so that if a disruptive event occurs, the business or project can withstand/ survive the impact of it. We'll start our discussion today by distinguishing between a crisis management plan and a business continuity plan. Article 1A: Crisis Management Plan vs Business Continuity Plan We'll look at a Harvard Business Review Case Study to finish our session today. HBR Case Study: The CEO Suffered a Breakdown. Now What? Jan Feb25 The first seven week's workshop materials can be found here: BSBSTR803 workshop notes weeks 1-7 We are going to build a case study in this unit - Eskandari Bicycle Co. the website is:  Eskandari Bicycle Co website In week 6 we'll use quite a few online articles. The links are: W...