Advanced Management

Overview:

Introduction:

This training program is an intensive program designed to elevate the capabilities of experienced professionals in managerial roles. Through a combination of advanced theoretical concepts, case studies, and interactive workshops, participants deepen their understanding of strategic decision-making, organizational dynamics, and change management.

Program Objectives:

At the end of this program, the participants will be able to: 

• 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 sustaining competitive advantage.

• Shift to new management and leadership paradigms and behaviors.

• Develop an implementation plan for their return.

Targeted Audience:

• Senior functional heads.

• Senior managers.

• Members of the executive committee.

• The heads of major business units.

• Senior members of the operating group.

• HR professionals.

Program Outlines:

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 are managing the future.

• Strategy innovations are 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.