Given the uncertainties of the times, today’s business leaders need to seriously rethink their value propositions and strategies for success. What worked yesterday will not necessarily work tomorrow. And just as critically, the tools that have been used in the past to solve the uncertainties of business life are often unable to generate answers for the increasingly chaotic times of today.
“Strategy Execution & Leadership in Today’s Uncertain Times: A Haas-KMDC Executive Series Co-presentation” is a two-day workshop that will provide forward-thinking business executives with the latest concepts and techniques that have been developed to deal with market uncertainty and risk. We will first discuss the nature of market changes that have created so much confusion, and then will turn to the potential solutions to the problems that have emerged. The program will review materials in all of the key functions of management and show how these new concepts are assisting firms to deal with market upheaval and change; these tools include scenario planning, real options reasoning, environmental scanning, and other such managerial concepts.”
2-Day Executive Seminar
Speaker
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Professor Paul Tiffany
Date
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1 & 2 December 2008
Time
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9:00am – 5:00pm
Venue
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Hotel Equatorial, Kuala Lumpur
Course Outline
Day 1:
Session 1: What is Strategy? What is Strategic Execution?
Strategy Formulation: A Process Involving People and Technology
Knowing the Customer, the Company, and the Competition
Why Organizational Values and “Culture” Count
Why Do Strategies Fail? Problems in Execution!
Session 2: Key Issues in Strategic Execution
Goals and Objectives: Organizational Clarity
Organizational Design: Strategy and Structure
Incentive Systems: Alignment with Organizational Strategy
Communications and Control Systems
Session 3: Case Analysis in Strategic Execution
Case studies
Small-group discussion and case preparation
Group case presentations to entire seminar
Session 4: Managing Risk and Uncertainty
Today’s business world: risk & uncertainty are everywhere
The management of risk… and the management of uncertainty
What managerial functions and activities need to be addressed, and what tools are available to address them
Day 2:
Session 1: Organizational Structure and Strategic Execution
Strategic Alignment: Why Structure is Critical
Ways to Organize: the Major Variables
Problems for the Global Firm: the Matrix Organization
Session 2: Organizational Culture: People and Processes… and Values
Major Elements of Organizational Culture
“Sociability” vs. “Solidarity”—or Task and Relationship
Managing People and Strategic Execution
Session 3: Case Analysis in Strategic Leadership
Case studies
Small-group discussion and case preparation
Group case presentations to entire seminar
Session 4: Strategic Leadership
Leadership “Theories”
Leadership and Strategic Execution
Characteristics of World-Class Organizations
Leadership and Change Management
Session 5: Program Summary: Where Do We Go From Here?
Malaysia today: which direction?
Issues the Malaysian business leader needs to address
Preparing for the future
Key Take-Aways
Learn personally from one of the world’s leading experts in business and management.
Prepare effectively for challenges ahead in leadership roles.
Network with other managers and executives to share perspectives and experience to meet the demands of change.
Real-life case studies and discussion forums provide great opportunities to learn best practices from around the world.
Be better equipped to rethink the strategies and tactics of your own organization, and redefine what you have to do to succeed in the foggy future of the current marketplace.
• Speaker : Professor Paul Tiffany
Professor Paul Tiffany is a highly experienced business consultant and an acclaimed facilitator of management training and development programs for leading firms and organizations throughout the world. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches courses in Business Policy & Strategy and International Management.
Prior to this Paul served as a lecturer at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University and as a professor at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as a Visiting Professor at Sasin, the Graduate Institute of Business at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand; IOMBA, the International Organizations MBA program at theUniversity of Geneva; and the Columbia University School of Business in New York City. He also taught the strategic management core course in the executive MBA program at CEIBS in Shanghai for the past four years. Professor Tiffany earned his undergraduate degree from Loyola University, an MBA from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Professor Tiffany is also a well-known author. His book The Decline of American Steel was published by Oxford University Press in 1988, and appeared in a Japanese edition in 1989. Business Plans for Dummies (John Wiley & Sons), co-authored with Dr. Steven Peterson, was published in 1997 and again in 2005 in a 2nd Edition. It was a world-wide Top-Five finalist in the Booz Allen/Financial Times “Best Business Book of 1998” competition. The first edition went through fifteen printings, and was available in ten languages. Professor Tiffany is the recipient of several awards for his teaching, including the Cheit Award as the outstanding professor in the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA program, in both 2003 and 2004.
Paul currently leads Paul Tiffany & Associates, a multi-specialty consulting and training organization that offers management services to firms worldwide. Recent clients have included Deutsche Post World Net (Germany), Siam Cement Group (Thailand), Thai Beverage (Thailand), Royal Bank of Scotland, Genentech, The Hartford Insurance Co., Statoil (Norway), Microsoft, Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino, US Steel, Raytheon, Toyota (Japan), Young Presidents Organization (YPO) of Thailand, Cisco Systems, Korean Management Association (Korea), Banc of America, and MinSheng Bank (China), among many others.
Who Should Attend
Managers of medium and large organisations dealing with the challenge of change in an uncertain environment: Chief Executive Officer (CEOs), Directors, Senior Managers, Managers, Senior Executives.
Your Investment
Regular Price: RM 3800 per participant (individual)
RM 3500 per participant (3 pax)
RM 3300 per participant (5 pax)
Early Bird Price: (for registrations before 31 Oct 2008)
RM 3300 per participant (individual)
RM 3200 per participant (3 pax)
RM 3000 per participant (5 pax)
Fees are inclusive of registration, course materials, refreshments and lunch for the two-day event.
We encourage companies to send cross-functional teams to leverage the application and value of the programme. Please contact us for special group rates for more than three participants.
For over 100 years, the Haas School of Business at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, has offered a superb management education to outstanding men and women from around the world. The School is one of the world’s leading producers of new ideas and knowledge for all areas of business, and a launching point for many new businesses.
The Haas School is widely known for its diverse and talented faculty, staff, students and alumni. They have created an innovative academic culture that stresses cooperative teamwork, entrepreneurship, a global point of view, and an emphasis on new ideas and fresh perspectives. The school’s programs benefit significantly from the university’s practice of interdisciplinary
research and teaching, and the school’s strong connections to nearby Silicon Valley.
The University of California, Berkeley is known as an innovator in business and technology. It is a world-recognized leader in breaking down industry and academic boundaries and developing dynamic, multi-disciplinary approaches to solving complex business and societal challenges. UC Berkeley prides itself on challenging convention and thinking “outside the box”. This approach has consistently produced outstanding results: UC Berkeley faculty members have won 20 Nobel Prizes, and another 24 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to their alumni. As a group, the Berkeley faculty also includes 29 National Medal of Science honorees, 27 MacArthur Fellows, and 5 Pulitzer Prize winners, as well as 122 members of the National Academy of Sciences, and 216 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. UC Berkeley has been ranked the premier research university in the United States in each of the National Research Council’s surveys of the last 40 years.
About KMDC(KDU Management Development Centre)
KMDC is a workforce transformation and learning solutions provider. KMDC is established to develop and enhance the capabilities of professionals through leading edge and high quality executive education and professional development programmes.
KMDC offers innovative learning solutions with emphasis on personal and professional growth for the individual and integrated management solutions for dynamic organisational change.
The team in KMDC understands what drives individuals and organisations to succeed and advance into leadership positions. Our model engages learning members in a transformational experience that goes beyond the mere acquisition of knowledge. Our learning network aims to bring professionals, client organisations, partner learning providers and learning members together in a network that can promote lasting, rewarding and satisfying learning experiences.
For enquiry, please contact: 03-7712 3388/7712 3212 Email: start@kmdc.com.my
Disclaimer: KMDC reserves the right to alter this presenter(s) without further notice; however, the programme is intended to run as advertised. KMDC reserves the rights to cancel or postpone this activity due to insufficient numbers – registrants will be notified and payment refund in full.
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