Global Leadership Development Programme for Entrepreneurs

Topic: Entrepreneurship in the New Age

• Getting to Know your Business, Its Eco-System and Environment.
• Entrepreneurial Approaches.
• Mapping and Measuring Key Business Health Metrics – OKRS.
• Passion And Values Driving.
• Challenges And Suggested Management Approaches.

Topic: Managerial Accounting and Finance

• Understanding and Managing Finance & Commercial Functions – Costs, Expenses.
• Understanding Gross Margin, Net Margin.
• Driving Profitability.
• Ability to read, understand and analyse P&L and Balance Sheet.
• Ratio Analysis.

Topic: People Management and Leadership

• Organization Building – Managing Self and Managing Teams.
• Leadership development.
• Change Management.

Topic: Operations 101

• Driving Excellence in Operations and Execution.

Topic: Managerial Economics

• Understanding the Basic Drives of Micro and Macro. Environments for Business Leaders.

Topic: Business Analytics

• Advance Excel and Analytic Tools for Decision Making and Growth Hacking.

Topic: Innovation Model

• Strategic insight: Executives and high-level decision-makers will gain a deep understanding of how to leverage technology-based business models, responsible innovation, and collaboration models to drive growth, innovation, and competitiveness.
• Practical application: The program emphasises real-world examples, case studies, and hands-on activities, helping executives translate the concepts and strategies they learn into actionable organisational plans.

Topic: Organization Design – Succession Planning

• Roles, Processes, And Structures to Ensure the Organization's Success.
• Succession Planning.

Topic: Data Drive Leadership

• Critically Evaluate, with Particular Reference to Digital Data, Traditional Leadership Models.
• Distinguish Between Agile and Efficient Leadership Structures and their Relationship to Data.
• Analyse the Role of Data, Volume, Quality and Timeliness, In Decision Making.
• Describe and Evaluate the Role of Collective Decision Making and Agile Teams.

Topic: Marketing Orientation

• To understand the Basics of Marketing Function and to Evaluate the Market environment to Develop Meaningful Sales and Marketing Ecosystems.

Topic: Venture Financing

• Project Finance, Risk, Returns, IRR, Importance of Cash Flows and its Management, Budgeting, VC Investment

Topic: Taxation in India

• TDS, GST and Business & New Labour Law Codes

Topic: Capstone Project

• Overview of Capstone Project Guidelines

Topic: Innovation Model

• Strategic insight: Executives and high-level decision-makers will gain a deep understanding of how to leverage technology-based business models, responsible innovation, and collaboration models to drive growth, innovation, and competitiveness.
• Practical application: The program Emphasises Real-World examples, case studies, and hands-on activities, helping executives translate the concepts and strategies they learn into actionable organisational plans.

Topic: Productivity and Growth Scale-up Toolkit

• The Business Scale-Up module will focus on cutting-edge strategies for growing high potential businesses. The first session will analyse approaches to growth, contrasting traditional Porterian strategy with alternative models such as Blue Ocean Strategy. The module then turns to the role of emerging AI tools and venture growth, paying close attention to radical new approaches to scaling that involve automating multiple parts of the venture value chain. The sessions will draw on a range of new case studies and insights from leading high-growth firms developed as part of a recent research project.

Topic: Digital Marketing

• Introduce business owners and entrepreneurs to the dynamic digital marketing ecosystem, which explores and applies digital marketing strategies to empower entrepreneurs to optimise sales and marketing opportunities to grow their business. Application of digital marketing theories, frameworks, tools, and techniques to build knowledge and transferable skills enabling the implementation of customised marketing tactics to achieve KPI’s and objectives through digital touch points (web, social media, mobile etc.).

Topic: Strategy

• Understanding of the link between strategic logic and storytelling in strategic management
• Crafting a strategy statement in paragraph
• Understanding stories and how to craft one
• Using stories to manage deliberate and emergent strategy

Topic: Innovation Model

• Strategic insight: Executives and high-level decision-makers will gain a deep understanding of how to leverage technology-based business models, responsible innovation, and collaboration models to drive growth, innovation, and competitiveness.
• Practical application: The program emphasises real-world examples, case studies, and hands-on activities, helping executives translate the concepts and strategies they learn into actionable organisational plans.

Topic: Digital Entrepreneurship- Creating Customer Value

• Analyse and evaluate customer segments, to identify target markets for a business startup.
• Classify and categorise customer segments to effectively tailor products or services to meet customer demands.
• Assess and evaluate the value proposition to determine competitive advantage in markets.
• Construct and develop compelling value propositions that effectively communicate benefits and value to customers.

Topic: Product Management for Entrepreneurs

• To understand the basic Elements of Project Management

Topic: Strategy

• Understanding of the link between strategic logic and storytelling in strategic management
• Crafting a strategy statement in paragraph
• Understanding stories and how to craft one
• Using stories to manage deliberate and emergent strategy

Topic: Business & Company Laws in India

• Overview of Laws governing business operations, contracts and other important aspects in India

Topic: Revisiting Business Models and Corporate Strategy

Topic: Revisiting Customer Experience and Customer Centricity

Topic: Business & Leadership Communication

• Negotiations
• Conflict resolution
• Persuasion

Topic: Capstone Project

• Final Project Presentations