General Management Programme(GMPx) Batch-2 in Dubai

Venue : IIM Bangalore campus and Dubai
Last date for registration: TBD

Start Date : TBD
End Date : TBD

Fee(including GST) : TBD

Overview

Disruptive innovations, emerging digital technologies and global competition call for managers with an adaptive mindset and evolving competencies. Businesses need leaders who can contribute beyond their field of functional expertise.

General Management Programme (GMPx-Dubai) Batch 2, has been designed to provide an accelerated journey of personal and professional growth by focusing on leadership skills, business acumen and a global perspective.

GMPx-Dubai Batch 2 programme is designed to provide the skills, knowledge and global perspectives required to be proficient in today’s corporate world. The programme is based on the highly successful EGMP and IIMBx, the Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) of IIMB’s Digital Learning centre.

# This programme has been conceived, designed and developed by IIMB in cooperation with SmartGlobal (SG)-Dubai.

Programme Objectives

Introduce contemporary business models and practices to the participants.

Develop competence in the disciplines and skills associated with general management.

Provide guidance to think through business strategies with a global perspective.

Target Audience

Functional heads & managers aiming to move on to general management responsibilities as business heads/COOs/CEOs.

Technologists seeking to broaden their knowledge of business and move on to general management responsibilities as business heads.

Professionals seeking to re-vitalize their careers by broadening their knowledge of business.

Mid-career professionals with potential for growth and graduates with a minimum of 5 years’experience.

Key Benefits & Takeaways

Competence to move to general management roles

Develop and implement business strategies with a global perspective

Leadership skills to manage people for results

Knowledge of emerging digital skills

Knowledge of emerging contemporary business models

Career Impact

Implicit career direction is a feature of the face-to-face GMPx-Dubai program.

Participants are encouraged to create their Personal Development Plan based on the organizational behavior, people development and leadership modules.

For this participant are encouraged to reflect on their career to date, their knowledge of the industry they are working in,and trends.

And prepare their career progress strategy defining what a meaningful career means to them.

If the participants take ownership of this approach they benefit from informal engagement with the faculty and their peers over the ten months period

Pedagogy

GMPx-Dubai Pedagogy includes face to face lectures from IIMB professors in Campus, self paced learning - Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) of IIMB’s Digital Learning center followed by Action Learning Project (ALP).

MOOCs and Action learning project

Following are the list of MOOCs courses for Business Essentials and Specialization tracks-

Strategic Management

Leadership Competencies

Creating and delivering value through customer centricity

Financial Acumen

Operations Management

Strategy and Leadership

Marketing and Analytics

Corporate Governance

An Action Learning Project will be implemented in teams consisting of 5 or 6 people created from amongst the GMPx-Dubai Batch 2 participants. ALP enables the participants to apply their learning to a real-life business challenge.

Programme Design

Today’s business environment is complex and fast changing. Companies are reinventing their business models to cope with or leverage disruptive technologies. Making sense of these rapid changes is becoming critical for gaining a competitive advantage.

The programme is structured around the following building blocks and will delivered in 5 phases:

• Business Environment

• Functional Knowledge

• Strategic Perspective

• Individual & Organizational Competencies

• Electives

Phase – 1

Business Environment
An understanding of the fast changing environment and its impact on business is crucial for success.
Topics include:
• The Economic environment
• Disruptive technologies

Phase – 2

Functional Knowledge
An appreciation of key concepts and activities within the primary management functional areas and interconnections among them is essential for aligning the functional areas with the business strategy.
Topics include:
• Financial acumen
• Branding
• Operational excellence
• Business analytics
• Winning and keeping customers

Phase – 3

Strategic Perspective
This module integrates the functional knowledge and allows the managers to take decisions and develop strategies that are appropriate for different environments.
Topics include:
• Corporate Strategy & Innovation
• Technology driven business models
• Digitalization

Phase – 4

Individual and Organizational Competencies
Continuous enhancement of individual and organizational competencies, business performance is crucial.
Topics include:
• Organization Structures and Processes
• Leadership
• Resource Optimization
• Entrepreneurship

Phase – 5

Electives
The program offers below elective tracks for programme completion.
• Strategy and Leadership
• Marketing and Analytics
• Corporate Governance

Leadership engagement

A unique feature of the GMPx-Dubai Batch 2 program are the seminars during the campus module where 2 or 3 CEOs/Business heads speak to the participants.