LSBI
Course One: Intensive SessionCourse Two: High Performance Business Process Systems
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The objective of the course is to broaden participants' understanding of operating challenges in various business settings. Throughout, it focuses on the value created and captured by different operating strategies. Participants acquire frameworks that enable them to analyze the demands of different competitive settings and understand how to design operating strategies that fit with the particular requirements of those environments.
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The objectives of this course are 1) to sharpen participants' understanding of both the disruptive forces that can derail teams and the conditions that increase team effectiveness; 2) to develop participants' ability to diagnose complex team dynamics and take action to improve team functioning; and 3) to build the combination of analytic and interpersonal skills participants need to effectively lead teams.
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This course introduces strategic human resources management and key functions of human resources (e.g. screening, training, development, evaluation and motivation). The course studies how an organization could use its human resources to create value and form competitive advantage from an executive's perspective. The course will also introduce new concepts and practices in human resource management.
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The objective of this course is to help participants recognize that accounting is the primary channel for communicating information about the economics of a business. This course provides a broad view of how accounting contributes to an organization. Participants will gain:
- An understanding of the concepts and language of accounting so it can be used as an effective tool for communication, monitoring, and resource allocation.
- Mastery of the vocabulary of financial statements and accounting reports.
- Familiarity with how modern accounting and control theory is used in evaluating economic conditions and making organizational decisions.
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This course introduces tools for studying the economic environment of business to help managers understand the implications for their companies. It provides an overview of issues and challenges confronting managers in the global marketplace, including regional economic integration. Key practices of international trade, exchange rates and investment policies are discussed.
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The objective of this course is to help participants understand how companies can create value through integrated financial, strategic, and operating decisions. Participants will learn about some of the practical means for financing corporate projects.
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This course addresses the issues faced by leaders who wish to turn opportunity into viable organizations that create value, and empowers participants to develop their own approaches, guidelines, and skills for being entrepreneurial leaders.
The course teaches participants how to:
- Identify potentially valuable opportunities.
- Obtain the resources necessary to pursue an opportunity and to create an entrepreneurial organization.
- Manage the entrepreneurial organization once it has been established.
- Grow the business into a sustainable enterprise.
- Create and harvest value for the organization's stakeholders.
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This course equips participants to be effective directors and advisors to boards. This requires an understanding of the basic roles and responsibilities of directors, and familiarity with the legal, economic, managerial, and psychological issues they confront in the ordinary course of serving on boards. This goal also requires participants to understand how directors should handle a range of complex scenarios and crises: taking an entrepreneurial firm public, or an established firm private; responding to hostile takeover bids or emerging strategic threats; and dealing with a company's gradual decline or a CEO's faltering performance.
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Management Systems offers participants a powerful, action-oriented systems perspective on how business system is organized and structured. The unique systems perspective will help participants to think about business organization as an effective system which embodies interrelated, overlapping subsystems. It will also expand on systems thinking to briefly introduce each of the five systems.
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The objectives of this course are to demonstrate the role of marketing in the company; to explore the relationship of marketing to other functions; and to show how effective marketing builds on a thorough understanding of buyer behavior to create value for customers. Participants learn how to:
- Make marketing decisions in the context of general management.
- Control the elements of the marketing mix"product policy, channels of distribution, communication, and pricing"to satisfy customer needs profitably.
- Use this knowledge in a brand management simulation.
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The objective of this course is to help participants develop the skills for formulating strategy. It provides an understanding of:
- A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive advantage.
- How to generate superior value for customers by designing the optimum configuration of the product mix and functional activities.
- How to balance the opportunities and risks associated with dynamic and uncertain changes in industry attractiveness and competitive position.
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This course presents the Corporate Culture as a new, emerging perspective on business management. It will help participants to see business organizations as cultures and how cultural perspectives affect human behaviors and thus organizational performance. It will also help to gain skills to cultivating sound organizational cultures so that businesses can be sustained in the competitive environments.