Course 14501: TONEX Executive Mini MBA

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Enhancing Organizational Performance and Sustainability - 5 DaysThe Mini-MBA gives you an opportunity to understand the business holistically, both from a business and technical viewpoint An excellent program that ensures team play, networking and innovation 

 Program Description

Leaders today are caught in the middle of a shifting economy, uncertain business environment and organizational pressure to do more with less. To survive this transformation, it is critical for organizations to develop leaders at all levels.Changing times demand a variety of skills that lead to outstanding performance in every aspect of your job. This 5-Day “Mini MBA” Workshop is the fast track to refreshing your knowledge base, making more informed decisions, developing successful strategies and achieving your personal and organizational goals.

The Mini MBA is a non-credit program and leads to a certificate in management upon completion. This accelerated, 5-day “Mini MBA” workshop surveys the core curriculum covered in most university-level graduate business programs. The knowledge you’ll acquire in this interactive learning experience will provide you with a strong overall business foundation. With the 5-day “MBA” seminar, you’ll discover how various components of a business must be linked, aligned and integrated into a successful business system. And you’ll gain a firm grasp of modern management practices.

The course offers the skills you need to evaluate organizational information and address business challenges. You learn fundamental business concepts and proven management analysis tools typically taught in MBA programs to guide your analysis, planning, decision and implementation processes.Obtaining a Mini MBA from the University of Dallas means gaining essential concepts professionals need quickly and concisely. This 5-day Mini-MBA Program offers an overview of the key concepts, tools, and techniques that are required to succeed in today’s challenging business environment. The program features focused learning experiences and case studies centered on vital subject areas in the business world. By mind mapping and discussing the case studies, managers will learn how organizational units interact to support corporate strategy and the different ways business can adapt to constant change.A team of faculties have condensed the fundamental leadership basics learned in the traditional UD MBA into a one week course (or four Saturdays). In the collaborative, project based setting, managers and executives see how best practices and leadership can be used to create the efficiency needed in today’s marketplace.    In today's business world, doing your job successfully means being able to work and communicate effectively with specialists in all functional areas and senior management. To do this, you need to understand the foundations, concepts, and techniques that form the basis for management today. In addition, you need to know the basic business vocabulary that fosters easier communication and enhances overall individual and corporate performance.

• Learn and refine their skills in:
  • Applying finance and cost accounting techniques to support decision making
  • Formulating a comprehensive marketing plan
  • Leveraging organizational structures, operations and systems to achieve business objectives
  • Managing people effectively to maximize organization  performance
  • Professional development.
  • Developing and implementing strategic and financial decisions in both normal and turbulent economic conditions
  • Developing business and product strategies that create ongoing competitive advantage
• Earn a Certificate which may be applied to the MBA   

Program Outline and Curriculum

Strategic Management

• The Basic Functions of Management
• The Global Environment of Business 
• Business Strategy
• Corporate Strategy
• Sustainability
• International Business
• Excellence in Leadership
• Leadership and Communication
• Behavioral science perspective of organizations
• Empowering an organization
• Motivation Leadership Strategies
• Organizational Planning and Growth Strategies
• Managing Strategic Transformations

Economics

• Global Financial Markets
• Corporate Finance and Financial Strategy
• Overview of Economic Expansions and Recessions
  • Definition of An Economic Expansion
  • Attributes of Recessions
  • Predictors of a Recession
  • Responding to a Recession
  • Strategies for moving an economy out of a recession
  • Deficit Spending by the Government to Spark Economic Growth
  • Supply-Side Economists and Tax Cuts
  • To Promote Business Capital Investmen
     
• Financial Accounting
  • Cost Analysis and Profit Planning
  • Process, value chain, and cost structure linkages
  • Corporate Governance
  • Sarbanes-Oxley Act
  • The Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
  • Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO)
     

Marketing and Brand Management

• Value cycle
• Value proposition and marketing strategy
• Value delivery
• Customer acquisition and retention
• Importance of Brand
• Market Segmentation
• Internet Marketing and E-Commerce
• Pricing Strategies
• Product Management

Operations, Process and Business Operations

• Operations Management
• Strategic Supply Management
• Lean Six Sigma
• Business Management
• Reducing costs, increasing speed and improving quality and service
  Process improvement principles
• Successful techniques for continuous improvement

Sales and Negotiation

• Sales
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Negotiations
• Conflict management
• Win-win negotiations
• Strategic Initiatives in Competitive Markets

Technology and Information Technology (IT)

• Technology Reviews
• Computing
• Information Technology (IT)
• Web
• Communications
• Energy
• Renewable and Alternative Energy
• Green Tech Strategy
• Technologies to Improve Energy Efficiency
• Materials
• Biomedicine
• Introduction to Information Technology (IT)
• Impact of Advances in IT
• IT Infrastructure and Strategies
• ITIL , ISO 20000
• The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• Technologies to Support Business Decision Making
• The Enterprise Architecture (EA) Technology
• EA Strategies
• Aligning IT  and Business Strategies
• Continual Service Improvement Techniques for Managing IT Professionals
• Strategic Information System Planning
• Information Assurance
• Eco IT
• Green IT
• Think Green
• Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse
• Green Capacity Planning of IT
• Green Data Centers
• IT Project Planning and Management
• Managing Information Assets and Technology
   

Strategic Human Resources (HR) 

• Building Relationships
• Coaching
• Leading Teams
• Facilitating Change
• Leveraging Workplace Diversity
• Ethical Decision
• Business Ethics
• Ethical Leadership Defined
• Tools for Ethical Analysis
• Leading and Managing Ethical Organizations
• Business Ethics across Cultural and Legal Boundaries

Business Law

• Global Policy Analysis
• Regulation and Legislation
• Regulatory and Ethical Environment of Business