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 of Advanced Management

• 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.

An ideal candidate is:

• 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 of Advanced Management

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 of Advanced Management

• 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 of Advanced Management

• 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 of Advanced Management

• 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 of Advanced Management

Day One

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 Two

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 Three

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 Four

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 Five

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