Executive Programme in Leadership and Management (EPLM)

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IIM Calcutta

Appreciating the macro contexts of doing businesses: 

Geopolitics of adoption of business practices across economies

Vulnerabilities in the Social and Natural Environments: The rise of Responsible Business

Global production orders and limits of strategic choices available to business organizations

Why strategy goals are different in emerging economies: Late industrialization and its techno-economic dynamics

Module 1: Thinking Strategically: Economics of strategic moves

What is strategy and what does one seek through a strategy?

Strategies of deterrence and cooperation

Growing profitably: Does industry choice matter?

Competing in product markets: Positioning choices

Managing across value chains: Vertical integration, contracting and alliances

Corporate strategy: Managing business portfolios and controlling diversified entities

Module 2: Leading the organisation in stability and turbulence 

Understanding Self

Perceiving Self, Organisation and Environment

Managing Group Processes

Leadership function

Power and Politics 

Module 3: Managing financial relationships and expectations

Part A: Linking managerial action and shareholder interests 

Reading and interpreting balance sheets and financial statements 

Designing financial control systems 

Part B: Financial structures and relationships 

Financial restructuring, Mergers & Acquisitions

Financing rapid growth: Raising finances and building financial alliances

Managing relations with financial stakeholders: Dynamics in the boardroom and in investor/analyst communities

Module 4: Designing Organisations for sustenance and innovation 

Design: Nuts and Bolts

Traditional Design options

Strategy and Structure Interlinkage

Emerging Organisational Templates

Organizational Culture and change

Organizing for Design Thinking and Ideation

Managing Growth and institutionalization of new initiatives

Module 5: Strategic choices in the Networked Era: The economics of platforms

Growing by business model innovation

Why is strategy making different in the digital world: Increasing returns economics and network externalities

Strategies to build Platforms, Marketplaces and ecosystems

Strategic choices in highly modular production environments

Strategies for accessing resources beyond the organization

Managing identities, reputations and other intangible assets

Workshop

Workshop on Communication for Leaders in second campus visit

(Strategic Communication, Networking and influencing through communicative acts and shaping discourses, tools and modes to leverage Social Media)