Accelerated Management Programme
Dates: April 26 - May 06, 2004

The Accelerated Management Programme (AMP) is designed to facilitate the transition of senior functional executives into highly effective general managers. It equips you with tools and insights to meet the challenges of increasing global competition, declining product cycles, rapid technological change, and organisational transformation.

Leading and Managing Digital Transformations
Dates: April 27-May 01, 2004

Seeking productivity gains, operational efficiency, and strategic value, today's companies spend billions of dollars on information technology (IT) applications and services. Executives the world over agree that IT assets and capabilities represent a strategic resource and, if effectively utilised, can allow a company to embark on value generating digital transformations. The company's Chief Information Officer leads these digital transformations, in his/her role as strategist, business partner, 'informator', and educator. This programme will help CIOs navigate the complex landscape of business value, strategic partnering and alignment, and technological discontinuities. It will also offer insights on effectively managing IT assets and capabilities in today's rapidly evolving, dynamic environment.

Transformational Leadership: Tapping into your personal DNA
Dates: June 20- 24, 2004

For most senior executives in large organisations and CEO's of medium sized enterprises, the day to day operational challenges are immense and can often be overwhelming. In the middle of growing complexity and increasing pressures from all directions, you have to set clear strategic direction (for your organisations and yourself), evoke passion and commitment in people who work for you, and learn how to harvest creativity into innovative products and services for the organisation to sustain and grow competitively in the long run. This programme will help you achieve this.

Marketing Strategies in a Competitive Environment
Dates: June 27 -30, 2004

In the turmoil of the contemporary marketplace, aligning your company's marketing strategy and organisational capabilities with markets, and building long-term relationships with customers and suppliers can mean the difference between success and failure.

For today's organisations, competitive advantage is continuously challenged by a plethora of new or repositioned products/ services from within and outside their industries. With many of these products/ services satisfying their customers better, faster or more cheaply, retaining customers has become a far greater challenge than it has ever been. This programme provides an opportunity to explore in-depth the challenges presented by today's highly competitive marketplace. It goes beyond the analytical and decision-making processes involved in formulating and implementing marketing strategies, into managing a portfolio of profitable customer relationships.

Strategic Thinking and Implementation
Dates: June 29 - July 01, 2004

This programme on strategic thinking helps build key strategic decision-making tools. Participants will learn how to analyse their competitive environment, taking into account shifts in technology, regulation, and the presence of international competitors. The course will also focus on how companies develop new capabilities, moving from being strong national competitors to international market players. Participants will be exposed to state-of-the-art tools in strategic analysis, market analysis, identifying profit drivers, and coordinating functional strategies. A variety of options to manage growth and restructuring will be addressed, such as internal development, strategic alliances, acquisitions, and divestitures.

Financial Strategies for Creating Value
Dates: July 05 - 09, 2004

In the increasingly competitive world of the new millennium, successful companies and their corporate managers need to understand the sophistication and subtleties of the seemingly complex world of modern corporate finance, international finance markets, global best practices, and financial management. This programme will take you beyond understanding cutting-edge corporate finance concepts to applying conceptually sound techniques to obtain an edge over competition.

The Programme is led by world renowned faculty from leading universities. It provides an unprecedented and unique opportunity to learn comprehensive, state-of-the-art financial thinking and techniques, practised by the most sophisticated and astute companies in the world.

Creating and Implementing Growth Strategies for Large Organisations
Dates: July 06- 10, 2004

Shareholders, competitors, and employees all impose pressures on companies to grow. A major challenge facing most managers is how to grow the company, and in some cases, which segments of the company to grow. This programme will develop a framework for determining the direction of growth (market penetration, globalisation, vertical integration, and diversification), and the mode of growth (organic growth, alliances, and mergers and acquisitions It provides a unique opportunity to learn how successful companies the world over have aggressively pursued growth strategies and outpaced competition.

Senior Executive Programme on Creating and Leading High Performance Organisations
Dates : July 07 - 11, 2004

Managers in today's business world must become creative leaders who inspire productivity and motivate employees to achieve organisational goals and objectives. It is not enough to analyse and formulate strategy; implementing strategy and execution are critical to a firm's success - and that is the focus of this programme. The programme is led by world-renowned faculty from top B schools. It provides a unique opportunity to learn how successful companies the world over have systematically built high performing organisations

ISB- INSEAD PROGRAMME 
MYGLOBE: Managing Young Global Enterprises
Dates : July 12 - 16, ISB, Hyderabad ( Module 1)
August 13- 17 , INSEAD Europe Campus, Fontainebleau

Programme Fee: Rs 4,25,000 (not inclusive of air fares and travel to France)

Drawing on our complementary strengths, the Indian School of Business (ISB), INSEAD and our other partner schools for this programme - Asian Institute of Management (AIM), Manila; Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (ALBA), Athens; FDC, Brazil; Lahore Institute of Management Sciences (LUMS); and University of Witwatersrand (WITS), Johannesburg - are offering a unique executive education programme. The programme provides senior managers from emerging market based firms with concepts, frameworks and tools to develop strategies for winning in the increasingly competitive global arena.

Engaging the Global Supply Chain
Dates : August 8-12, 2004

The effectiveness of successful global companies rests on the strength of their global supply chain. Winning companies in India are poised to enjoy global success if they can understand what it means to be part of a global supply chain. This "understanding how to engage"
requires both, a basic understanding of the metrics of performance and engagement, as well as the development of a coherent strategy to engage global business into the course design.

Based on original and in depth research with a large number of Indian and multinational companies, it examines key metrics of performance such as time, quality, design
innovation, and variety. It shares best practices and next practices that have helped these
companies compete globally. It also explores how successful Indian CEO's have fundamentally changed their companies and built organisations that are engaging effectively with global markets on a sustained basis.

Winning Strategies in a High Technology Environment
Dates: July 29- Aug 02, 2004

High technology enterprises face a unique set of strategic challenges. In this environment, traditional strategic concepts do not always work. No executive in the technology sector involved in strategic planning for their enterprise, either as a producer or as a user, can ignore the role of technical standards, intellectual property protection, availability of complementary products, the economics of information, network effects, lock-ins, and switching costs.

This programme addresses the needs of both producers as well as users of high technology in a diverse range of industries such as IT, pharmaceuticals, engineering, banking, and insurance

Stategies for Fast Growing Enterprises
Dates: Aug 02 - 06, 2004

Today's rapidly changing business world presents a range of possibilities for you to establish, expand, or integrate new products and markets. However, the same business world is also fiercely competitive and ruthless.

It is not enough to achieve success or to survive; it is important to continuously grow, to adapt to change, and to stay ahead. This requires a few specialised skills - to anticipate change, to be able to see every change as an opportunity, to analyse these opportunities, and to formulate strategies to make the most of such opportunities.

This programme will provide you with the relevant skills, along with a strategic view of a business enterprise, enabling you to capitalise on the most profitable growth prospects for your enterprise.

Corporate Strategy
Dates: September 13 -17, 2004

It is now beyond dispute that corporations- even those operating in relatively closed economies- are exposed to the forces of the global economy.

The globalisation of the world economy is forcing corporations to confront many challenges such as the identification and exploitation of new business opportunities, the coordination of geographically dispersed business units, and the need for a rapid response to threats posed by competitors and others.

These challenges have, in turn, forced corporations to reassess their horizontal and vertical boundaries- issues that lie at the core of corporate strategy .The aim of this programme is to introduce executives to the economic, financial, and managerial foundations underlying thedevelopment and refinement of corporate strategy in today's global economy.

This programme has been carefully designed to provide a valuable learning experience by combining a variety of pedagogical approaches.

Leadership Skills for Top Management
Dates :October 05 - 09, 2004

Leadership and change dominate most corporate agendas. This programme meets both challenges and will benefit corporations and top managers. It is based upon eighteen years of research and experimentation at London Business School (LBS) on the interpersonal skills of leaders. Six sets of leadership skills essential for managing change are included: Planning, structuring, motivating, rewarding, institutionalising, and managing the politics in change initiatives.

Perpetuating the Family Enterprise
Dates :October 11-15

Though well-governed family businesses have a competitive edge in today's turbulent market place, their needs, problems, and prospects are often not given the kind of attention they deserve. This unique programme seeks to bridge the gap. It examines the special challenges that a family leader faces in balancing the needs of the business against the requirements of the family.