EMBA 2010 Cohort

 

Theme 1: Know Your Business World

Economic Analysis of Business

  • Economic environment
  • Globalisation
  • Knowledge transfers & protected knowledge capital in the global marketplace
  • Trend analysis and over the horizon planning

Strategic Decision Making

  • 5 steps of strategy
  • Competitiveness and innovation strategies
  • Decision theory and implementation
  • Big picture thinking
  • Strategic change
  • Strategic business development

Theme 2: Developing Competitive Advantage

Managing People in Organisations

  • Leadership, motivation and business coaching
  • Managing change and innovation
  • Executive pay and reward

Marketing Management

  • 5 steps of market development
  • Developing global brands
  • Accessing markets
  • Growing market position
  • 5 step sales process

Theme 3: Gaining Operational Efficiencies

Supply Chain Management

  • Strategic organisational supply chain
  • Operational excellence
  • Collaboration and virtual supply chains
  • Advanced program management
  • Driving out costs

Information Systems

  • Managing information and knowledge
  • Ensuring information quality
  • Strategic information flow systems
  • Implementation and impact on people

Theme 4: Funding The Business

Accounting for Managers

  • Triple bottom line
  • Effective financial management
  • Interpretation of accounting data
  • Effective financial management

Financial Strategy

  • Company and market analysis
  • Business Risk
  • Finance and your strategic plan
  • Financing and dividends - impact on business valuation
  • Valuing knowledge capital

Theme 5: Planning Into Action

Governance and Ethics

  • Effective and ethical corporate governance systems
  • Ethics
  • Governance
  • Managing the global organisation - culture, structure, knowledge (management, capture, sharing)

International Business Strategy

  • Strategic business positioning
  • Operational strategies
  • Working with other cultures
  • Sustainability in the global marketplace
  • Corporate footprint analysis

 

Last reviewed: 7 August, 2009