Role-Based Programme
RB0251

DeepSeek for Strategy & Business Management

AI Skills for Strategic Analysis & Smarter Decisions

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Duration
4 Hours
Level
Awareness
Delivery
Instructor-Led
Format
Awareness Session

Programme Objectives

  • Understand how DeepSeek can support strategy and business-management activities through research, reasoning, analysis, and decision preparation.
  • Explore practical prompting techniques for market analysis, competitor intelligence, business problems, strategic alternatives, and management reporting.
  • Apply DeepSeek's reasoning capabilities to break down complex business questions, assumptions, risks, and trade-offs.
  • Experience how business reports, research information, and supporting documents can be transformed into structured strategic insights.
  • Recognise source quality, confidentiality, bias, assumptions, accuracy, and human-judgement requirements when using AI for strategic decisions.

Tools covered

DeepSeekPromptingReasoningWeb ResearchFile & Document AnalysisBusiness Analysis

Who should attend

  • Strategy Managers
  • Corporate Strategy Professionals
  • Business Managers
  • Business Planning Professionals
  • Business Analysts
  • Transformation Managers
  • Business Excellence Professionals
  • Management Consultants
  • Business Unit Managers
  • Strategic Planning Professionals
  • Chief of Staff Professionals
  • Senior Managers
  • Functional Leaders
  • Decision Support Professionals

Prerequisites & Participant Readiness

  • Basic understanding of strategy, business planning, or management activities
  • Familiarity with business reports, market information, or strategic discussions is helpful
  • Basic computer and internet proficiency
  • No AI or programming knowledge required
  • No previous DeepSeek experience required

TOC Modules

Concepts
  • Understanding DeepSeek and Generative AI from a business-management perspective
  • Identifying applications across research, analysis, planning, problem solving, and decision support
  • Understanding reasoning-assisted AI for complex business questions
  • Understanding AI assistance versus management judgement and decision accountability
Practical activities
  • Exploring DeepSeek through common strategy and management questions
  • Comparing a traditional business-analysis task with a DeepSeek-assisted approach

Scenarios

Market Opportunity to Strategic Recommendation

Business Opportunity → Market Research → Business Drivers → Competitor Context → Risks & Opportunities → Strategic Options → Management Recommendation

Participants use DeepSeek to investigate a potential business opportunity, structure the available evidence, compare alternative approaches, and prepare a concise strategic recommendation for management review.

Business Challenge to Decision-Support Brief

Business Challenge → Context & Evidence → Assumptions → DeepSeek Reasoning → Alternative Options → Risks & Trade-Offs → Decision Brief

Participants use DeepSeek to break down a complex management challenge, challenge assumptions, evaluate alternatives, and create a structured decision-support brief while retaining final decision authority with management.

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