Advanced Programme in Strategic Management for Corporate Leaders (APSMCL)

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Advanced Programme in Strategic Management for Corporate Leaders (APSMCL)

Tentative Start Date:

July, 2024

Programme Duration:

8 months

Programme Fee:

Rs 4,38,000/- + (applicable taxes)

Programme Overview

Current business contexts are defined by intense pressures of competition, international exchanges of resources in an uncertain geopolitical order, new concerns about sustainability and an intensification of resource conflicts around the world, technological changes and business and societal disruptions triggered by the use of information technology and massive institutional transitions/transformations such as the new rise of Asian economies. These both frame and challenge a firm’s ambitions of growth requiring them to take risks as they navigate through change.

Strategy is a mode of thinking that leverages the power of individuals, institutions, firms and markets in a cohesive manner to improve the effectiveness of an organization. Hence, we can call it the exercise of power. It is a skill and a craft. Strategy is thus fundamentally about governance. Power can of course be sought for its own sake and therefore crafty strategists in its pursuit may deform and transform business and societal spaces and existing institutions, even while setting ‘new rules of the game’. These require institutional work to be carried out that can embrace the ‘social’ and ‘political’ even as it retains the core concern with the economic calculus of a firm’s strategizing.

Globalization and more intense international flows of resources and ideas are bringing firms that were nurtured in ‘specific historically constructed national institutional settings’, to compete in global markets, all the while as nations militarize and the multi-polar geopolitical order throws up unanticipated events that can disrupt multinational patterns of resource flows rather suddenly. Understanding the institutional setting of rival and/or partner firms so as to better appreciate their strengths and weakness adds an additional layer of complexity to the strategic endeavor in the post-Covid world. Navigating the challenges of global competition therefore requires an appreciation, not only of the strategic moves a firm can make – but more importantly how these relate to and interweave with the broader institutions that frame and define strategic action.

This course therefore presumes that strategic action, of competition or cooperation, always is embedded in societal, institutional and regulatory/governmental contexts. Rather than looking at these as constraints, it helps if one can appreciate how wins can be crafted and power effectively leveraged working within and through these broader institutions, to the benefit of both firm and society.

Programme Objective

Develop a strategic thinking mindset – understanding conflicts and alignments of interest

Understanding strategic landscapes of industries, economics behind strategic moves

Understanding contemporary developments such as business model disruptions, outsourced models of business, vigorous use of informatics, delayering of organizations, modularization of product systems and so on.

Institutional frameworks to managing multi-stakeholder interests successfully; understanding the rise of the State/government in a multi-polar and unstable geopolitical order

Programme Directors

Professor Biswatosh Saha

Strategic Management

Professor Mritiunjoy Mohanty

Economics

Who Should Attend

This programme is aimed at managers and leaders in organizations who are currently in roles that require them to handle strategic issues, profit centre heads or managers who are looking to move into such roles. Founders of small and mid-sized firms, as well as senior leaders of large organizations seeking to move into CXO roles in the near term would find the program very useful Working professionals wishing to participate in the programme need to have a minimum experience of 7 years. Managers with longer and broader experience would benefit more from the programme.

Programme Duration and Delivery

The duration of the programme is Eight Months. Sessions will be held once a week for three hours on Fridays (6 PM – 9 PM).

There will be 3 campus visits spanning 11 days (4+3+4 days respectively for each visit) in total.

Pedagogy

The programme will use multiple modes of interactive delivery. Lectures and readings of concept pieces would be linked to discussion of business cases (and business histories), to ground theories/concepts in practice. The programme will also use extensively the widely distributed knowledge pieces within the web (in the public domain) through use of links, thematic sites to aid considerable self exploration by motivated senior managers and business leaders. Each platform interaction would require pre-reading and preparation in group-based modes by the participants. The course will also have a series of practitioner-interaction sessions

Programme Content

Some of the content areas are mapped with areas of curiosity of typical practitioner/managerial participant of the program:

Why does an organization need a strategy? Isn’t strategy just a well laid out and optimized plan?
Content - Strategic Thinking: The science behind strategy landscapes and relations of conflicts and cooperation
What is the science or economics behind long-standing financial success of certain organizations?
Content – Competitive advantage in product/service businesses, Understanding creation and destruction of moats, economics of digital ecosystems and platforms, economics of scaling or non-linear profit growth
How are some organizations able to achieve better alignment with their business/ecosystem partners and suppliers?
Content – Managing contracting, outsourcing and modularization; Developing clarity on where, when and how to push for cooperation
Who delivers strategies on the ground? How to think about the pandora’s box of strategy implementation?
Content – Structuring and designing small and large organizations; clarifying operational, middle and top management roles; leading and mobilizing people; strategy practices and organizational routines, leading people and organizations through technological and institutional transitions
How can one understand the exploding startup ecosystem?
Content – Business model and why it is disruptive, growing a startup from Zero-to-One, cash burn, Venture Capital, creating a startup culture inside a large firm
How do large family businesses manage their business portfolios?
Content – Corporate strategies, corporate restructurings, M&A
How do some businesses prosper with support from societal stakeholders while others get mired in episodes of debilitating conflicts; Are businesses around the world organized in a similar way?
Content – Appreciating institutions and the way it shapes organizing for business; varieties of capitalism; developing a historical cross-country comparative canvass of economic growth and well-being; understanding the new strategic role of the State in business affairs
Why do some leaders stand out in shaping organizational paths?
Content – the art and science of strategic leadership; strategic communication; competing on narratives

Programme Sample Certificate

Alumni Status

LDP participants who complete the programme successfully become the Alumni of 91��Ƭ��C Executive Education, which currently has over 30,000 members.
LDP Alumni are given an email-id in the 91��Ƭ�� domain.
LDP Alumni can register in the 91��Ƭ�� Alumni portal either with this email-id or with their personal email-ids. The 91��Ƭ�� Alumni portal is a common platform for Alumni of all programmes of the Institute to interact with each other and stay connected with the Institute.
The Institute shares newsletters, important news and articles about the Institute and its activities, the achievements of the Institute's faculty, staff, students and alumni, upcoming events and programmes etc., on the portal.
Alumni can post their achievements, write about jobs or LIVE project opportunities for other alumni to see.
The 91��Ƭ�� alumni network can also be accessed on mobile phones through the mobile app.
Executive Education Alumni are entitled to a discount of 5% on the programme fee if they opt to do another LDP.
By using the different features of the 91��Ƭ�� portal, alumni across programmes can engage with each other in many meaningful ways. It is up to the alumni themselves to leverage the platform

How to Apply

For further details and for downloading the application form please visit: - .

Contact person (VCNow):

Name – Shivani Sharma
Email ID- shivani.sharma[at]vcnowvcr[dot]com
Contact Number –9219078715

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Alumni Speak

I have gained in depth knowledge regarding strategy, economics, capitalist market and understand things from different perspectives. Now we are going back with deep understanding of rofitability of different industries and strategies adopted by them.

Harshit Chabra

Aavas Financiers Ltd, AVP Accounts

Batch: Batch 14

“This course has truly been an eye-opener for me by helping me gain a deeper understanding of strategy and making me question my long-held beliefs on this subject. We went over a variety of case studies, which presented us with a different outlook on the concept that may not be entirely suitable for our specific roles right now, but it is still very useful and vital to have a more holistic view. I firmly believe that this course should be taken by anyone who wishes to get into leadership or those who are already in it, as I am sure that it will provide them with a new way to observe the business world, despite any amount of prior experience.”

Vidya Shetty

Lee Hecht Harrison, Regional Manager L&D Operations

Batch: Batch 14

“I selected 91��Ƭ��’s Advanced Programme in Strategic Management for Corporate Leaders (APSMCL) with great enthusiasm because I recognise that in my current role, it is essential to have a clear understanding of strategy. Nowadays, strategy has become a buzzword that is not often properly explained and it is difficult to comprehend precisely how our roles align with the strategies we create and how they will contribute to the success of our organization. This course has helped provide me with the insight to analyse my strategies. Over the last six months, with the guidance of the professors, I have been given an understanding of the concepts and how they are applied around the world in various organizations. This knowledge has been significant for business leaders, like us, to understand the core of the strategy.”

KP Saumyajit

Lee Hecht Harrison, Regional Sales Director

Batch: Batch 14

Personally it has been an overwhelming experience in terms of knowledge gaining and guided the way to growth and excellence along with an understanding of actual strategy. It is also a faithful experience in terms of creation of knowledge.

Sudip Dey

Transelectric Energy Systems Pvt.Ltd, Director - Operation

Batch: Batch 14

“I’m fortunate to have been given the privilege to partake in the strategic management course for senior corporate leaders from 91��Ƭ��. It has certainly enhanced my knowledge over the past six months and has been an amazing journey of learning. The course has given me the outlook to keep an open mind and to look at things objectively instead of blindly accepting what is resented to me. I’m deeply grateful to Prof. Biswatosh Saha and Prof. Mritiunjoy Mohanty for showing us the right way to think strategically, to be great leaders on our journey and most importantly, to oncentrate on our own development.”

Pooja Godara

Shriram Housing Finance Ltd., VP - Head of Service and Retention

Batch: Batch 14

“Logic is not always the truth” the course clearly took us through the journey of organisational strategy in full circle i.e. from formulation, to implementation and realigning for course correction. The case studies were engaging and tested our conventional wisdom. It helped me to understand my organisational strategies from the leadership perspective."

Swagat Sekhar Baidyanath

Legal Counsel, Tata Steel Limited

Batch: APSMCL13

"My heart fills with gratitude when I look back at this 7-month journey especially during the unprecedented times. Thanks to Professor Saha and Professor Mohanty for curating such a thoughtful and powerful course module. Being from non-Finance and non-Strategy background, I was never sure if this was the right choice of course for me. But as we progressed, I started to enjoy learning this side of management. The direction and insights provided by each of the Professors we learnt from helped me immensely in my ability to question, analyse and my approach towards drawing conclusions. Their challenging us at various points gave me new perspectives and helped to develop my ability to think through and analyse well before making any recommendation. This programme will always be a memorable learning experience of my life. I am definitely taking away with me immense learning and confidence that assures me that nothing is impossible unless you think it is. Thanks to all the 91��Ƭ�� Professors. As a Senior Manager in the Chairman’s Program Management Office, I get an opportunity to make decisions and use the new ways of looking at the world that I have learned in APSMCL, keeping in mind always that granularity and abstraction need to go hand in hand."

Kshitiza Bawa

Senior Manager – Chairman’s Program Management Office, Aster DM Healthcare, Dubai

Batch: APSMCL13

"APSMCL program has been by far, one of the most influential experience of my career. Not only has it provided a framework for how I should approach strategy management and thinking process, it has also helped me to implement some of these learnings in regular work and has enabled me to tackle complex business problems. I found working on case studies and project presentation with the other participants to be very helpful and it accommodated a variety of learning styles. I appreciate the knowledge, expertise and advise provided by the 91��Ƭ��C professors. In addition their willingness to learn from us was the highlight of this program. Overall, APSMCL program was an amazing experience and I foresee using several of the strategies, ideas and techniques in daily practice."

Surender V P

General Manager, GGS Information Services India Private Limited

Batch: APSMCL13

"APSMCL has provided me with both the theory and practice of what it takes to devise a coherent and executable strategy. I feel I am now equipped with the right “toolbox” that I should use, having the theory behind it, and the rationale that has helped me to gain confidence. Now I am able to effectively develop and implement corporate strategies, set up realistic business objectives, perform daily tasks efficiently and lead effectively. All professors, especially Prof Mritiunjoy Mohanty & Prof Biswatosh Saha, were effective, charismatic and helped reinforce the critical concepts of the course. Experiencing progression through the different strategic phases reinforces practical application of the concepts."

Alok Gupta

Group Head – HR & Administration, D P JINDAL GROUP, JINDAL CORPORATE CENTRE

Batch: APSMCL13

"I have always admired the precalculations and forecasting power and the selected decisions on strategies of my seniors. I decided to join the course so that I could elevate myself to a positon where I would be able to see the scenarios and prospects before hand. This course has tremedously opened my mind. The arguments during the case studies were unique in nature and have given me the much needed thought process. I can now see a problem from different angles."

Nrusingha Misra

Assistant Vice President, HDFC Bank Ltd

Batch: APSMCL13