The Advanced Management Program

Introduction:

Today’s executives have no room for error in navigating the market upturn to ensure their organization's survival and success. This all-new capstone to our Management Program is a fast track to more effective senior management by learning to best leverage your corporation’s competencies and build high value, sustainable growth.

An excellent course for experienced executives looking for late-breaking management ideas centered on strategy and “growth maximization” to prepare for market realities in the next three years.

Targeted Groups:

• Senior functional heads
• Senior managers
• Members of the executive committee
• The heads of major business units
• Senior members of the operating group
• HR professionals

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course the participants will be able to:

• Review prevalent management practices on today’s organizations
• Understand and contribute to a discussion of emerging business issues in management.
• Determine their leadership and management advantage and plan their future in a risk-free environment.
• Recognize and take action on new sources of growth in the areas of strategy
• Make traditional assumptions and examine business challenges from new current perspectives.
• Build on core functional competencies by creating a sustainable competitive advantage.
• Shift to new management and leadership paradigms and behaviors.
• Manage and engage people through organizational performance
• Develop an implementation plan for their return.
• Turn ideas into action through a hands-on case which interconnects all the influences on general management decisions
• Capture advanced-level management learning in a concise and dynamic format
• Build readiness to seize opportunities as markets turn up
• Gain exposure to pioneering trends in productivity, innovation, strategy, performance, etc.
• Connect with an exceptional peer group from diverse industries
• Gain coaching advice from senior consultants on igniting growth and momentum in your organization

Targeted Competencies:

• Internal management activities
• Action-planning tools for diagnosing and solving organizational problems.
• Competitive analyzing
• Strategic analyzing
• Performance management
• Change management

Course Content:

Unit 1: Performance Management Process:

• Integration of proven management methodologies
• Fact-based data and information technology
• Motivation and performance management
• Performance management as an appraisal process
• Performance management around the globe

Unit 2: Leading Organizational Change Through Innovation:

• Strategy innovations is managing the future
• Strategy innovations is not strategic planning
• Managing innovation and the discovery process
• The discovery process: staging, aligning, exploring, creating, mapping
• The future of strategy innovation systems in management

Unit 3: Leveraging Management Based Activities:

• Questions and Definitions of Activity Based Management
• Activity-Based management as a key to success
• Operational Activity-Based management for continuous improvement
• Strategic Activity-Based management for profitability
• Activity-Based management supports performance management

Unit 4: Integration of Performance Management:

• Customer intelligence and relationship management
• Supplier Intelligence: managing economic profits across the value chain
• Process intelligence and six sigma quality and lean thinking
• Shareholder intelligence
• Employee intelligence

Unit 5: Knowledge-Based Management and Organisations:

• Enabling knowledge-based competence of a corporation
• Strategic management of knowledge
• Market research in product development
• Human Resource Management and knowledge creation
• Organizing and managing innovation in a knowledge-based economy