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C-Suite: From Strategy to Goal Setting
On 25-26-27 May, Prof. Dr. C. Ruhi Kaykayoğlu delivered “C-Suite: From Strategy to Goal Setting” training at Boğaziçi Üniversitesi to develop Mercedes’ capabilities to become stronger, more innovative, and more efficient and to overcome today’s complex challenges.
At a glance
- Project Focus
- Strategy and Transformation · Universities
- Solution Area
- Strategy and Future DesignUniversities of the Future
- Approaches Used
- Facilitation
- What Emerged
- A framework clarifying strategic priorities · Decision-making practice through future scenarios
- Sector
- Automotive
Inside the project
Focus
How can an organization's future strategy become its everyday way of working?
The Mercedes project focused on placing the organization’s training needs within a strategic framework. The organization sought a way of working that connected its future with today’s decisions.
The challenge was not simply to find the right plan but to turn it into a system teams could own and implement.
What strategy documents typically lacked was not direction but a working system connecting strategy to everyday decisions.
Scope
We worked with the organization’s senior executives on topics ranging from strategy to goal setting. The training addressed capability development, innovation, efficiency and tackling complex challenges.
Implementation
HOW WAS SCENARIO PLANNING USED?
We used possible futures not as a single forecast but as alternative scenarios against which today's decisions could be tested. The aim was to make foresight the language of decision-making meetings.
Strategic transformation begins not with writing a new plan but with decision-making that supports the organization's new direction.
The journey we designed
- 01EXPLOREA situation map was developed by considering the organization's real needs, current ways of working and external signals together.
- 02REFRAMEParticipants practiced creative problem solving and application through their own real work problems.
- 03BRING IT INTO THE ORGANIZATIONA follow-through plan was developed with teams to connect the methods learned to daily workflows.
Kaykayoğlu project insight
Strategy is not a document but a way of working continually recreated through the organization's decisions.
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