Mini MBA

INTRODUCTION

This 10-day programme is designed to give you a feel of the major management issues, tensions and dilemmas being faced by economies, organisations and individuals and examples of how they are being tackled. It will highlight the skill sets and knowledge that a modern manager needs to cultivate in order to operate efficiently.

Each session is designed to give you an overall understanding and the impact of the issues without going into detailed theoretical explanations. Recognising the limited time available this programme provides a summary of the debates presently ongoing with regard to each issue or functional area without going into detailed functional specific expertise.

The overall aim of the programme is to give you an exposure to the issues that need to be managed and possibly provide a direction for your future personal career development and training needs. This programme will help you to develop your core understanding and capability of:

• The fundamental principles and debates driving each of the functional areas
• A holistic organisational diagnosis and design capability
• Achieve and sustain a unique marketplace position
• Provide superior cross-functional decision-making abilities
• Build a framework to facilitate your future career and self development goals

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• This Mini MBA will benefit all professionals who are interested in broadening their understanding of the different functional areas and the cross-functional management issues that are faced by an organisation in the present dynamic business environment. It will help you to identify areas of interest for further specialisation and future career development

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

At the end of the programme participants should have an overview of the various functional areas and management issues faced by an organisation. Participants attending the programme will get an in-depth understanding and hands-on experience of:

• Global economics and international trade dynamics- measuring and managing growth and the importance of emerging economies
• Tools, models, instruments and strategies for creating winning organisations
• Developing suitable performance measures
• Identify areas of change and developing suitable action plans
• A quick understanding of the fundamental issues being debated within financial management
• Practical know-how to diagnose, assess, design, implement, coach, follow-up actions, and evaluate the issues of Knowledge management
• The importance of harnessing and managing the Human Capital of an organisation
• How to develop a high-level view to better scan the environment and marketplace in order to market your products/services proactively rather than reactively
• The principles behind effective organisational design, operations and Supply Chain Management
• The personal skills required to be an effective manager in today’s dynamic environment
• How to scan, analyse, build and set key outcome success measures to achieve the desired results in building and sustaining business excellence and positioning over the long term and be able to manage continuous change
• How to manage the underlying issues of Cross-cultural teams, fostering creativity and entrepreneurship and creating a socially responsible corporate ethos

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

Participants will learn by active participation during the programme. Extensive use will be made of all available aids like course material presentation, exercises and workshops, training videos, case studies and discussions of ‘real-life’ issues in the organisations. Participants will also be required to prepare ‘in advance’ presentations, exercises in order to derive maximum benefit from the workshops and exercises.

PROGRAMME SUMMARY

The need to change is an accepted fact of the 21st century. The question facing organisations is not about ‘whether we should change’ but more about ‘how do we change and adapt to this rapidly changing landscape of the 21st century’  The purpose of this training session is to provide the participants with an overview of the fundamentals behind the various functional areas within the organisation (Global business, Strategy, HRM, Finance, Marketing, Operations) and how they are changing so that they can take more informed decisions. It will also help to enhance the understanding of more underlying and subtle issues (Knowledge Management and Innovation, Corporate Social responsibility) that are impacting organisations in the 21st century. This session will also highlight the personal and analytical skills that the participant needs to cultivate in order to succeed in this dynamic environment. It is hoped that the participants will have a more well-rounded and holistic understanding of the organisation, its environment and also some of the personal skills and traits the participants require to succeed in this environment.

PROGRAMME OUTLINE

DAY 1 - Understanding the Global Macro-economic Environment

• International Economics and Trade
• The dynamics of growth
• New Opportunities in emerging markets

DAY 2 - Understanding the Strategic dynamics

• Creating Winning Organisations
• Managing and Measuring Performance
• Conducting an environmental scanning process of external factors
• Developing enterprise-wide positioning (desired networks) that articulates the overall direction/vision of the enterprise

DAY 3 - Money matters

• Functional and Strategic Financial Management
• The role and impact of International Finance
• Corporate Finance – value based planning

DAY 4 - Harnessing knowledge

• Managing Knowledge
• Encouraging Innovation
• Managing Technology Development and deployment

DAY 5 - Managing your Human Capital

• HRM and Employee satisfaction
• Leading People for competitive advantage
• Managing change and corporate renewal

DAY 6 - Effective Marketing

• Creating a Marketing ethos
• Customer Relationship Management
• Brand Equity
• Defining competition and assessing their capabilities & intentions

DAY 7 - Managing Operations

• Designing effective organisational systems
• Principles of  Management Information systems (MIS)
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management (SCM)

DAY 8 - Developing personal skills

• Consultative skills
• Negotiations skills
• Presentation skills

DAY 9 - Developing analytical skills

• Business and Economic Forecasting
• Understanding Consumer Behaviour
• Principles and methods of Market Research

DAY 10 - Managing the hidden issues

• Leading cross-cultural teams
• Fostering Entrepreneurship and creativity
• Creating a Corporate Responsibility ethos

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