Your Course of Study
Created exclusively for senior executives and entrepreneurs, this leadership development program addresses the key trends and demands facing leaders of companies seeking to build scale in India today. The curriculum is centered on four major themes:
Strategy
- Identifying your organization's unique value proposition, or what sets your company apart from the competition
- Branding your unique value proposition in ways that are memorable
- Evaluating and addressing the unique challenges and key differences of operating in emerging versus developed economies
- Devising effective market segmentation and targeting within a large emerging market
- Recognizing when a globalized firm, product, or service line is more or less likely to succeed than its localized counterpart
- Knowing when to compete and when to cooperate or partner
- Identifying the products, countries, and regions that offer the best opportunities for an Indian-based company seeking to expand beyond India
- Positioning your organization with regard to companies from other emerging and developed markets, and determining whether to compete or cooperate with those firms
- Determining the role that organic growth, versus mergers and acquisitions, should play in your strategy
Leadership
- Developing a vision for a successful business in India, and aligning your people around it
- Defining the critical role of leadership in implementing enterprise change
- Aligning the energies of talented leaders with your corporate goals
- Tailoring leadership style to the specific operating and cultural environment in India
- Driving performance and delivering results across your enterprise
- Building and managing effective relationships at the individual, team, and organizational levels
- Setting the tone and creating an organizational culture with strong values and high integrity
Talent Management
- Managing talent in a rapidly growing market with high mobility and turnover
- Developing leaders who can capitalize on growth opportunities in the local market
- Encouraging individual creativity and innovation
- Motivating individuals and teams to achieve your company's goals
- Running an effective performance appraisal and management system
- Training and developing a large base of talented front-line employees and managers
- Succession planning to build a deep "talent bench"
Leading Innovation
- Identifying a global innovation edge for Indian companies
- Understanding why some companies are more innovative than others
- Building, managing, and improving innovation systems
- Leveraging open innovation for idea generation, problem solving, and growth
- Using business experimentation for competitive advantage
- Designing management systems for business innovation
"Building a Global Enterprise in India is a wise investment of time that offers high potential returns for anyone building an international business. The program not only has sharpened my skills as an innovation leader, but also has enabled me to implement a more effective approach to project leadership. At the same time, I had the opportunity to meet high-caliber executives from diverse backgrounds and develop mutually beneficial relationships that would be much more difficult to form in a typical business environment. These close connections will continue to provide access to real-world experience as well as valuable insight from seasoned executives in the region."
ALEXANDRE LAZARI [BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR], BUNTECH TECNOLOGIA EM INSUMOS LTDA, BRAZIL