5-Day "MBA" Express

Overview

5-Day "MBA" Express

How You Will Benefit?

Business Outcome

Participants will learn how the key components of a business fit together and how to make fundamental decisions in the running of such a business from a general management perspective.

Learning Outcome

• Understand the key components of a business and how they fit together
• Learn to read and understand the key financial statements and use them to analyze the financial health of a business
• Learn to make managerial decisions by identifying the relevant costs and benefits and evaluating these costs and benefits taking into account risks and time value of money
• Understand what is strategy and the different levels of strategy
• Learn how to develop competitive business strategies
• Learn how to develop marketing strategies
• Understand the differences between leadership and management
• Become more aware of your leadership strengths and development needs
• Learn how to manage conflict and challenging conversations in constructive ways
• Learn how to motivate and influence stakeholders in our organization

5-Day "MBA" Express

What You Will Cover

Accounting

• Basic accounting concepts and principles
• Understanding the key financial statements: income statement, balance sheet, retained earnings statement, cash flow statement

Finance

• Evaluating an organization's financial performance using financial ratios
• Identifying relevant costs and benefits for managerial decision-making
• Making effective capital expenditure decisions

Strategy

• Strategy as a set of choices designed to produce success for an organization
• The different levels of strategy: corporate, business unit and fuctional strategy
• The strategy formulation process; the role of mission and vision in the process
• Selected analytical and strategic tools to use in the strategy formulation process

Marketing

• Understanding marketing's role in delivering sustained customer satisfaction and business success
• Unpacking the marketing mix-the 5Ps of marketing (positioning, product, pricing, placement and promotion)
• Understanding how the 5Ps individually address customer needs and collectively provide sustainable competitive advantage
• Analyzing a business case study to demonstrate the integration of the 5Ps

Management

• Understanding key differences between management and leadership
• Being more aware of one’s leadership strengths and development needs
• Managing conflict and challenging conversations in constructive ways
• Becoming more tactical in motivating and influencing stakeholders

The course agenda may be updated regularly as required.

5-Day "MBA" Express

Who Should Attend

Anyone interested in obtaining an effective, broad-based overview of the functional areas often covered in university-level MBA programs.

5-Day "MBA" Express

Faculty

Alfred Chan (Accounting, Finance, Strategy)
Alfred is Executive Director of Imperial Consulting, Singapore. He has been in management consulting for over 20 years, with Arthur D. Little, Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Arthur Andersen and KPMG, in the last two firms as a Partner and a Director respectively. Prior to management consulting, he was in investment banking with JP Morgan and DBS Bank. Alfred has an MBA (Finance Major) from Columbia Business School in New York and a BE (Hons) in electrical engineering from the University of Melbourne, earned under a Colombo Plan Scholarship.


Spencer Chan (Marketing)
Spencer is a consultant who brings with him deep and extensive management experience gained from a wide range of industries and geographies (USA, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He has held management positions at Hewlett-Packard Geneva, been a marketing manager at Procter & Gambke (with assignmentin the Far East, Central America and the Caribbean), and alson been marketing director of Citibank Global Consumer Banking in Singapore.

Spencer has also served both as Chairman and Independent Director on the boards of a number of public companies listed on the SGX and ASX. Spencer has a Master Degree in business from Purdue University earned under a Rotary International Foundation Fellowship and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Australia, earned under a Colombo Plan Scholarship.


Jean Francois Jadin (Management)
Jean-Francois’ expertise in coaching, facilitation and assessment has been built over a 20-year career in key leadership roles, including a regional CEO position with the American Management Association global network. He has designed, developed and implemented numerous talent assessment and development solutions for both multi-national corporations such as Pfizer, Citibank and Shell or organizations such as Singapore Airlines and Axiata.

He focuses on offering management and leadership development solutions to multi-national corporations, large local companies as well as governments and government related entities, typically at middle and senior management levels.

Jean-Francois holds a B.Sc. (Hon’s) and a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Namur, Belgium. He has been an American Management Association faculty member, as well as a CELEMI certified facilitator since 2003, and became a Chally certified talent analyst in 2009. He is a credentialed coach by the International Coach Federation.

5-Day "MBA" Express