Understanding Strategic Analysis Frameworks

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About this course

Apply strategic frameworks for beginner business analysis

  • 5 lessons
  • 30 min
  • beginner

What you'll learn

  • Define what a strategic analysis framework is and its role in business analysis
  • Recognize the historical development of business strategy from the 1960s onward
  • Understand why frameworks simplify complex business problems and create structure
  • Apply PESTLE analysis to evaluate macro-environmental factors affecting a business
  • Use Porter's Five Forces to assess an industry's competitive intensity and attractiveness
  • Determine when to use each external analysis approach based on strategic goals

Finishing the course

  • 20 knowledge-check questions along the way, so you know the ideas stuck before you move on.
  • Watching is free and needs no account. Sign in to save your progress. Pass each lesson's quiz (60%+) to earn the certificate. Each certificate has its own public verification link to share, marked quiz-verified.
  • Part of the Strategic Business Analysis and Competitive Strategy learning path. Enrol in the path and finish its required courses to earn one certificate for all of them.