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 Programme 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.

• Starting with a personalized diagnosis of your current processes

• Review prevalent management practices in today’s organizations

• Recognize and take action on new sources of growth in the areas of strategy

• Managing and engaging people through organizational performance

• Provide value for customers and resolve management challenges

Course Objectives :

• Understand and contribute to a discussion of emerging business issues in management.

• Determine your leadership and management advantage and plan your future in a risk-free environment.

• Provoke 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.

• Develop an implementation plan for your return.

Target Audience :

• A senior functional head

• A member of the executive committee

• The head of a major business unit

• A senior member of the operating group

Course Process :

The program is delivered in a highly interactive, hands-on learning style by senior consultants with corporate experience. In addition to trainer-led group discussions, case studies, and learning group exercises, this program includes experiential learning and other instructional modalities to accommodate a variety of executive learning styles and to improve learning and retention.

Course Benefits :

• Turn ideas into action through a hands-on case that 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

Course Results :

• Focusing on ways to create value in a downturn.

• Understanding the results-oriented view of marketing prepares senior leaders to manage marketing across multiple areas.

• Gain effective strategies for maximizing the potential for greater bottom-line and shareholder value.

• Exploring the techniques for managing incremental and disruptive innovation, as well as the organizational dilemmas inherent in managing strategic contradictions.

• Explore new market space opportunities.

Core Competencies :

• Emphasizing the art of configuring internal management activities to create new sources of competitive advantage.

• Acquiring a set of methodologies and action-planning tools for diagnosing and solving organizational problems.

• Analyzing the role of senior management in applying competitive analysis and best alternative strategies.

• Applying the strategic analysis to evaluate available resources, market opportunities, and the effectiveness of organizational structures, systems, and processes.

• Analyzing the options for articulating a clear vision, building a coalition of support, and creating an organization that is capable of reinventing itself.

Course Outlines :

Day 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

Day 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

Day 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

Day 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

Day 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