Learn & Apply the CAGE - Business Analysis Tool

In this Course , you will learn the Business Strategic Analysis fundamentals and Apply them through the C.A.G.E framework.

Analytical Methods and Strategic Tools aid consistency and ensure that a definite level of rigour is applied to the analysis.

The focus of Business Analysis is fundamentally on its objectives and the Analytical Methods and Strategic Tools used in the process must be the most appropriate to these objectives.

Some of the more commonly used Strategic Analysis Tools include: the PESTLE Analysis, the CAGE Analysis, the 7S-Framework, the SWOT analysis, the Balanced Scorecard (BSC), etc.

CAGE being acronym for: Cultural, Administrative, Geographic and Economic. These CAGE's 4 perspectives make it a powerful Business Strategic Analysis Tool. Students with a need or keen interest for Business Analysis or Strategic Business Analysis and those who want to learn and apply the powerful CAGE Analysis tool to their enterprise or that of their clients will learn some powerful skills in the process.

The CAGE Framework is used to identify the distance of the organization under study (how far it is from its desired destination) and to assess the impact of this ‘distance’, from four different perspectives: Cultural, Administrative, Geographic and Economic. The impact, in each of these four cases, could be negative (-ve) or positive (+ve).

As a Case in hand, the Course look at the diamond industry in China and draw conclusions - from each and all four Perspectives - as to why, from a Strategic perspective, DeBeers (Leaders in the diamonds Industry, based in Europe) went to China: an interesting case study

To develop a fuller picture as to why DeBeers went to China the Course will use the CAGE ( Cultural, Administrative, Geographic and Economic) Framework, so as to determine more objectively the distance between the two entities along these four basic dimensions.

To emphasize the application of the CAGE framework - as Business (Strategic) Analysis Tool, the Course takes you through puts a Project which will enable you to apply your learning of the CAGE model and the related techniques .