COURSE OBJECTIVES
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
- Understand and engage in discussions on emerging business issues in management.
- Identify their leadership and management strengths while planning for the future in a risk-free environment.
- Challenge traditional assumptions and analyse business challenges from contemporary perspectives.
- Enhance core functional competencies to create a sustainable competitive advantage.
- Transition to new management and leadership paradigms and behaviours.
- Formulate an implementation plan for applying learned concepts upon returning to their organisations.
- Collaborate with peers to share insights and strategies for effective management practices.
TARGET AUDIENCE
- Senior functional heads.
- Senior managers.
- Members of the executive committee.
- Heads of major business units.
- Senior members of the operating group.
- HR professionals.
- Executive leadership team.
PROGRAM OUTLINES
DAY 1: Performance Management Process
- Incorporation of established management practices.
- Data-driven insights and information technology.
- Encouragement and performance oversight.
- Performance management as a review process.
- Global perspectives on performance management.
DAY 2: Leading Organisational Change Through Innovation
- Strategic innovations for future management.
- Differentiating strategy innovations from strategic planning.
- Overseeing innovation and the exploration process.
- The exploration process: staging, aligning, investigating, creating, mapping.
- The future of strategic innovation systems in management.
DAY 3: Leveraging Management-Based Activities
- Key questions and definitions of Activity-Based Management.
- Activity-Based Management as a cornerstone of success.
- Operational Activity-Based Management for ongoing enhancement.
- Strategic Activity-Based Management for profitability.
- Activity-Based Management as a support for performance management.
DAY 4: Integration of Performance Management
- Customer insights and relationship management.
- Supplier Intelligence - optimising economic profits throughout the value chain.
- Process intelligence, Six Sigma quality, and lean methodologies.
- Shareholder insights.
- Employee insights.
DAY 5: Knowledge-Based Management and Organisations
- Fostering knowledge-based capabilities within a corporation.
- Strategic oversight of knowledge management.
- Market analysis in product development.
- Human Resource Management and the creation of knowledge.
- Structuring and managing innovation within a knowledge-driven economy.
