Delivering Strategic Initiatives

• Gain exclusive access to proven execution frameworks, including prioritisation tools, governance models, and strategic alignment scorecards tailored to the GCC market
• Learn from real-world case studies and thought leadership to tackle initiative delivery challenges and adapt strategies to market changes
• Develop actionable plans using AI-powered dashboards, templates, and checklists designed for immediate application

This programme is designed for senior leaders responsible for translating strategy into execution, those with the authority to make strategic decisions, allocate resources, and drive organisational outcomes.

It is particularly relevant to regulated and high-stakes sectors across the GCC, including utilities and energy, government and healthcare, banking, and aviation, where large initiative portfolios often outpace the discipline to deliver them.

Relevant job titles:

• Directors and Heads of Departments
• Strategy Leads and Planners
• Programme and Portfolio Managers
• Change Managers and Transformation Specialists
• Business Consultants and Advisors
• Senior Executives and C-suite leaders
• Project Managers responsible for strategic initiatives

By the end of this programme, you will be able to:

• Audit your strategy portfolio to identify orphaned objectives and initiatives that don't serve a strategic goal.
• Quantify the strategic value of initiatives using prioritisation frameworks, weighted scoring, and the Strategic Contribution Score.
• Map causality to link every initiative to the objective it drives, and to leading and lagging indicators.
• Create governance structures, including a Kill Switch Protocol and Tiered Escalation Matrix, to flag failing projects early.
• Build a Self-Funding Model so high-return initiatives fund the rest of the portfolio.
• Develop a 90-Day Execution Roadmap with a Weekly Vital Signs Dashboard and Monday Morning Review Rhythm.
• Lead change, secure stakeholder commitment, and build a Strategy Manifesto to embed execution discipline.
• Institutionalise a 90-Day Re-Linking Ritual to re-score priorities and adapt to market changes in real time.

It's a four-day programme that teaches senior leaders how to deliver the specific strategic initiatives that close the value gap, the difference between what an organisation plans and what it actually achieves. It's practical, not theoretical: participants apply the frameworks to a real initiative from their own organisation during the course.

Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Execution Professional (SEP) programmes focus on the what of execution: running the whole organisation in alignment with strategy. Delivering Strategic Initiatives focuses on the how: prioritising, resourcing, governing, and, when necessary, killing individual initiatives.

Think of SEP as running the airline and DSI as building the new terminal. They complement each other; DSI also works as a standalone programme.

You'll work with the Strategic Contribution Score, Contribution Margin, Kill Switch Protocol, Self-Funding Model, Causality Map, Weekly Vital Signs Dashboard, and the 90-Day Re-Linking Ritual, a complete toolkit for prioritising and delivering initiatives.

Yes. You leave with fully editable templates (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) for every framework, plus a tailored implementation roadmap for your own organisation a ready-to-execute plan, not a binder of slides.

AI is used as a practical accelerant, not the subject. You receive a library of reusable AI prompts for tasks like portfolio analysis, scoring, dashboard creation, and stakeholder communication. No specific software purchase or installation is required.

The programme uses a live case-study approach: you bring a real strategic initiative challenge from your own organisation and apply the frameworks to it during the course. Because participants come from GCC sectors like utilities, energy, government, healthcare, and banking, the examples are always relevant and current.

Yes. Every initiative is, in effect, a project with a sponsor, owner, scope, budget, and timeline. Programme and portfolio managers gain tools to prioritise across a portfolio and govern delivery, without needing a prior PMP background.

To earn the Informa Connect Academy Certificate of Completion, you must attend all sessions (missing no more than two hours) and pass the end-of-course assessment with 70% or above. Otherwise, you receive a Certificate of Attendance stating the hours attended.