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Blair Cook, Director of Clarke Inc
Many time CFO of both public and private companies, three current corporate director roles, CPA and Chartered Accountant. Provides professional development services to "big 4" public accounting firms.
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The modern CFO is now finding themselves with a seat at the strategy development table. It’s crucial that the CFO make a valuable contribution. In this course, we will discuss strategic management and the role of the CFO in facilitating corporate strategy development.
The CFO is used to working with frameworks and providing quantitative analysis to support decision making. This course provides the CFO with a holistic understanding of the entire strategic development process and develops competency in using various strategic tools to help guide organizations toward making well-reasoned and executed strategic initiatives.
Learning Objectives
- Establish a strategic management process at your organization
- Facilitate the development and implementation of strategy at your organization
- Play an important and leadership role in strategic planning and management of your organization
Last updated/reviewed: May 10, 2022
35 Reviews (101 ratings)Reviews
The course is an adequate survey of traditional strategy development and deployment concepts. Unfortunately, the material feels dated, best suited to a 1970's economy. It needs to be refreshed to reflect the technology and service economies that have come to characterize the US economy. Like others, I feel the pacing is rapid and superficial, without much depth. More specific and extended examples would help. Take out the slide showing Procter and Gamble in the orange juice business - they exited in 1993!
Wayne Spivak
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Wow, this course covers a tremendous amount of information across a large swath of conceptual frameworks. Mr. Cook does an outstanding job of trying to keep the a) pace upbeat, b) it at a high level and c) connected.
I would like to see either more subset courses, given the 10 chapters of this course and more real world case studies so we can see how an application might look.
Lawrence Hirsch
(Controller at Builders design)
Blair is a wonderful presenter and as he calls himself a"coach" worthy of your time to listen. Wish I could meet him, alas he is in Canada. The material is complicated but the clear and consice method to explain that Blair uses dumbs it down for a student like me that needs it broken down to understandable pieces. thanks Blair
A R
(Controller at -)
This is a fantastic overview - moves quickly and gives exposure to a lot of information giving you a framework to understand strategic thinking as a whole which you can leverage to educate yourself further on more narrow topics (outside of this course). Examples were very relevant and helpful.
Kevin Murray
(Controller at DA Collins)
This course covers a lot of material and could be broken down into multiple courses with more detail. It would be great to have some real life examples of how these strategies were implemented at companies and either flourished or failed and why.
Lawrence DeParis
(Founder & CEO at C-Level Solutions LLC)
Mr. Cook provides an astoundingly robust and comprehensive journey through strategy development and management in just two hours. His teaching style is second-to-none and the accompanying visual presentation is top-notch. Take this course!!
Holly Aglio
(CFO at Govplace, Inc.)
Excel workbook is an extremely helpful toolkit to have from this course - practical and user friendly. Topics were detailed enough to give insight but not overwhelm. Really liked instructor’s presentation style and examples.
Anonymous
(controller)
Good material, should really take more time for the amount of material involved. Would like to see some exercises along the way to go with the material. Felt like instructor was reading, and could lose the audience easily.
Richard Schultz
(CFO at SoMedia Networks )
A very good and thorough introduction to the concepts to be understood in the setting of strategy. The worksheet provided is a particularly helpful take-away for implementing the concepts presented in the course.
Anonymous
(CFO)
A lot of concepts and valuable for partnering with executive leadership in formulating strategy. This course provides the tools needed to drive the internal discussion.
Anonymous
(Analyst)
After finishing this course, make sure you sit completely still for 15 minutes. Gaskets are cheap, but the cost of labor will push you into uncontrolled weeping.
Monica Elfstedt
(Controller at Advance Coating Solutions Inc.)
Great content - lots of material. Took many hours for note taking, I think should be at least 3-4 PD points once notes, review and exam was completed.
Doug Slaybaugh
( at The CPA Coach)
Great insight. Appreciated the various models to use, and perspectives each provide towards management of strategy and the company. Thanks.
Anonymous
(Chief Financial Officer )
Gives good framework - but should break up the course and focus on various components of building strategy, implementation, and evaulation
Anonymous
(Independent Financial Consultant)
Great overview of the strategic management cycle. Helped me to clarify the difference between mission, values, vision, and objectives.
Peter Kotsifas
(CFO at The Phia Group)
Great content and useful examples. Also, Blair has a great website that contains a lot of free content applicable to the course.
Rich Housman
(Chief Financial Officer at Venus Wafers Inc.)
Important subject. Too important to try to squeeze so much within the time frame. Could have added another 2 hours..
Anonymous
(CFO)
Good synthesis of lots of material and approaches and will really help me reinvigorate our strategic planning
Lori Ardry
(Manager - Accounting at Charter Communications)
The Don't Stop till you get to the top...was too much. Once was fine but not at the end of each segment.
Raveendran Madappattu
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The course coverage is excellent and provides a greater insight into successful strategic planning.
Richard Dandan
(Senior Accounting Specialist at National Food Authority)
Wow! Very well done! Superb both the material and Mr. Cook! Excellently crafted and presented.
Jordan Chitwood
(CFO at Butler's Pantry)
Lots of good info and covered a lot of ground. Workbook provided at the end is helpful.
Denise Salzman
(Operations Manager at Aspect Wealth Management)
The course covered the full spectrum of strategies and addressed each fully.
Anonymous
(Director Finance)
Nice way to put many different analysis together in one presentation .
Jeff Spillane
( at Anslow Bryant Construction)
Not a fan. Course covered too much information in too superficial a manner.
Anonymous
(NA)
Very good content. However, an awful lot of material in a 2 hour course
Anonymous
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pretty interesting material, large amount of material for 2 hour course
Anonymous
(Head of Finance)
we need stuff like these in Illumeo to answer our business problems
Anonymous
(Controller)
Great presenter, very passionate about topic and teaching.
Juha Bruun
(Senior Manager, Business Account and Sup.. at Intuit)
Great course to give overview of strategy development.
Greg Kelley
(Chief Financial Officer at United Conveyor Corporation)
Lots of great content - moves quickly.
Chantell Haines
(Accountant at SustainableBrands)
Really great presenter. Thank you!
Anonymous
(None)
Excellent Course!
Qingkui Qiu
(Finance supervisor at Wanli New energy corporation LTD.)
Great course!
Anonymous
(Chief Financial Officer)
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Prerequisites
Course Complexity: Intermediate
Prerequisite: Exposure to corporate strategy
Advanced Preparation: None
- It is assumed that the course participant has already developed competency in financial statement analysis, ratio analysis, cash flow analysis, and present value techniques.
- The course is targeting experienced professionals that already have an established financial or accounting background.
Education Provider Information
Company:
Illumeo, Inc., 75 East Santa Clara St., Suite 1215, San Jose, CA 95113
Contact:
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