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Program Schedule
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Forecasting and Inventory Management
Equip yourself to generate more accurate forecasts, set appropriate inventory levels, and monitor and improve forecasting and inventory management over time. Explore the impact of inflated inventory levels, diagnose process constraints, and leverage techniques to improve inventory performance.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Strategic Procurement and Purchasing
Acquire a foundational understanding of managing and optimizing procurement and supplier management. You will learn basic principles of purchasing and develop strategies in supplier negotiations impacted by economic and regulatory issues.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Introduction to Supply Chain Analytics
Learn functional analytic techniques to evaluate logistics and supply chain performance. Discover critical data interpretation methods and apply the information to improve logistics and supply chain performance. The course will focus on hands-on learning, and excel-based approaches for cleaning and analyzing data.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Security and Risk Management
Learn a practical process for achieving optimal decisions using established principles of intelligence analysis and risk assessment. Through examining models of supply chain security, you will recognize the advantage of producing intelligence as an analysis of data, geography, and business operating procedures.
Portfolio: Leadership & Strategy
Implementing Strategy for Success
Develop an integrated approach to strategy implementation and performance management. Build strategic thinking abilities, decision-making acumen, personal leadership qualities, and influencing skills. Maximize management systems to drive organizational performance and growth.
Portfolio: Analytics
Leading With Analytics
Analytics is the combination of science and art that allows organizations to transform data into actionable insights to enable effective decision-making. With increasing amounts of data available to organizational leaders, it can be challenging to generate and apply the ‘right’ information to business and organizational challenges. Learn tools and methods that leaders can apply to real-world problems using data to: determine what happened – assess what might happen – prescribe what should happen.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Essentials of Supply Chain Management
Learn the critical foundational concepts required to lead an integrated supply chain operation. Develop common performance metrics, improve customer satisfaction, maximize capital turnover and enhance alliances and partnerships. An industry case study and team-based simulation will provide a hands-on learning opportunity.
Portfolio: Leadership & Strategy
Strategic Leadership
Prepare to lead transformational change in your organization. Develop the perspective to lead strategically by assessing your opportunities in the competitive environment, developing and implementing strategy with a focus on a constantly changing future, and aligning your organization around the fundamental pillars of strategy, leadership, and culture.
Portfolio: Analytics
Analytics for Marketing: What Every Leader Should Know
Overwhelmingly, leaders of all types within organizations understand the importance of using data to inform market focused decision making and strategy – especially when the data is related to common marketing challenges related to topics like customer experience, brand management, and trends in the marketplace. However, researching and finding critical data and insights that are highly targeted, robust, and valuable can be a challenge – even with a team of technical experts supporting your efforts. In this program, we will explore the basic principles of marketing analytics through the lens of frequent marketing analytics challenges, such as customer acquisition. Using common challenges as a starting point, this program will explore baseline practices leaders can implement to support the successful acquisition and application of marketing data and analytics. This program will help leaders better frame marketing challenges and questions for which data can offer insight while uncovering core principles that technical analysts will leverage to answer your questions.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Achieving Supply Chain Transformation
From business strategy formulation to supply chain design and execution, this program provides operating models and tools for supply chain transformation resulting in improved organizational performance and positive financial results. Learn how to weigh priorities for innovation and strike a balance of trade-offs to optimize the supply chain. Throughout the session, participants will develop personal leadership goals and identify means toward implementation.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Aligning Supply Chain Organizations
Your complex supply chain relies on alignment in three critical areas to facilitate success: 1) between the supply chain and strategic objectives, 2) between function and process areas within the supply chain, and 3) between the organization and its suppliers and partners. Learn how to coordinate initiatives so that your enterprise functions seamlessly in service of the ultimate judge—your customers.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Forecasting and Inventory Management
Equip yourself to generate more accurate forecasts, set appropriate inventory levels, and monitor and improve forecasting and inventory management over time. Explore the impact of inflated inventory levels, diagnose process constraints, and leverage techniques to improve inventory performance.
Portfolio: Leadership & Strategy
Communication Strategy for Leaders
Today’s workplace offers a complex variety of modes through which leaders communicate critical concepts, ideas, and strategic messages. This program will help you explore effective strategies for communicating strategic vision up, down, and across the organization, with particular focus on leading across generations.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Transportation Operations and Sourcing
Acquire foundational understanding, learn common terminology, and discover methods to effectively manage and optimize transportation operations. Learn how to analyze freight needs and competitively source carriers and third-party providers to improve service levels and reduce transportation costs.
Portfolio: Analytics
Introduction to Analytics
The words ‘analytics’ and ‘data’ are found everywhere today: from social media platforms to nearly every business area, including finance, marketing, human resources, and operations. But what do these words really mean in the context of leading an organization and leveraging data analysis to meet team and enterprise goals? This program offers leaders the opportunity to ground themselves in the core issues related to understanding analytics. Together, we will explore the shared language around data analysis, dive into how analytics is offering new insight into business activities, survey the most common tools and techniques for analysis, and leave you with some ideas about future possibilities in analytics.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Processes and Tools for Supply Chain Success
Through the lens of the SCOR® (Supply Chain Operations Reference) Model, participants will become familiar with tools, techniques, and approaches to define, analyze, and implement improvements for each major function and process area.
Portfolio: Analytics
Analytics for Marketing: What Every Leader Should Know
Overwhelmingly, leaders of all types within organizations understand the importance of using data to inform market focused decision making and strategy – especially when the data is related to common marketing challenges related to topics like customer experience, brand management, and trends in the marketplace. However, researching and finding critical data and insights that are highly targeted, robust, and valuable can be a challenge – even with a team of technical experts supporting your efforts. In this program, we will explore the basic principles of marketing analytics through the lens of frequent marketing analytics challenges, such as customer acquisition. Using common challenges as a starting point, this program will explore baseline practices leaders can implement to support the successful acquisition and application of marketing data and analytics. This program will help leaders better frame marketing challenges and questions for which data can offer insight while uncovering core principles that technical analysts will leverage to answer your questions.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Strategic Procurement and Purchasing
Acquire a foundational understanding of managing and optimizing procurement and supplier management. You will learn basic principles of purchasing and develop strategies in supplier negotiations impacted by economic and regulatory issues.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Aligning Supply Chain Organizations
Your complex supply chain relies on alignment in three critical areas to facilitate success: 1) between the supply chain and strategic objectives, 2) between function and process areas within the supply chain, and 3) between the organization and its suppliers and partners. Learn how to coordinate initiatives so that your enterprise functions seamlessly in service of the ultimate judge—your customers.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Developing Strategic Supply Chain Leaders
Learn how to orchestrate supply chain speed, flexibility, and competitive differentiation. Develop a more innovative supply chain and get teams throughout your organization working toward the same goals.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Essentials of Supply Chain Management
Learn the critical foundational concepts required to lead an integrated supply chain operation. Develop common performance metrics, improve customer satisfaction, maximize capital turnover and enhance alliances and partnerships. An industry case study and team-based simulation will provide a hands-on learning opportunity.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Introduction to Supply Chain Analytics
Learn functional analytic techniques to evaluate logistics and supply chain performance. Discover critical data interpretation methods and apply the information to improve logistics and supply chain performance. The course will focus on hands-on learning, and excel-based approaches for cleaning and analyzing data.
Portfolio: Analytics
Introduction to Analytics
The words ‘analytics’ and ‘data’ are found everywhere today: from social media platforms to nearly every business area, including finance, marketing, human resources, and operations. But what do these words really mean in the context of leading an organization and leveraging data analysis to meet team and enterprise goals? This program offers leaders the opportunity to ground themselves in the core issues related to understanding analytics. Together, we will explore the shared language around data analysis, dive into how analytics is offering new insight into business activities, survey the most common tools and techniques for analysis, and leave you with some ideas about future possibilities in analytics.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Fulfillment Operations Management
This program provides a primary understanding of end-to-end fulfillment operations within firms, from forecast development through successful delivery to customers. Basic terminology and underlying processes will be identified and explained, and best practices will be integrated to highlight effective fulfillment management. Quantitative techniques will be introduced to identify the financial or cost implications of fulfillment decisions.
Portfolio: Analytics
Leading With Analytics
Analytics is the combination of science and art that allows organizations to transform data into actionable insights to enable effective decision-making. With increasing amounts of data available to organizational leaders, it can be challenging to generate and apply the ‘right’ information to business and organizational challenges. Learn tools and methods that leaders can apply to real-world problems using data to: determine what happened – assess what might happen – prescribe what should happen.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Building a Sustainable Supply Chain
Sustainability in the supply chain provides a win-win for every organization—it’s good for the environment and for profitability. This program will equip you with the latest tools, concepts, and business practices for managing an environmentally and economically sustainable supply chain.
Portfolio: Leadership & Strategy
Strategic Leadership
Prepare to lead transformational change in your organization. Develop the perspective to lead strategically by assessing your opportunities in the competitive environment, developing and implementing strategy with a focus on a constantly changing future, and aligning your organization around the fundamental pillars of strategy, leadership, and culture.
Portfolio: Leadership & Strategy
Leading for Results: Strategic Financial Management
It is critical for leaders to understand how business decisions impact financial results and how constraints shape business decisions. All too often, operational leaders and strategic decision-makers are siloed from their counterparts in finance. This program focuses on connecting business decisions with their financial consequences and views finance as an operational element of a successful organization. As you gain familiarity with the tools and techniques of managerial accounting, you will begin to deploy finance to empower your business decisions
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Achieving Supply Chain Transformation
From business strategy formulation to supply chain design and execution, this program provides operating models and tools for supply chain transformation resulting in improved organizational performance and positive financial results. Learn how to weigh priorities for innovation and strike a balance of trade-offs to optimize the supply chain. Throughout the session, participants will develop personal leadership goals and identify means toward implementation.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Forecasting and Inventory Management
Equip yourself to generate more accurate forecasts, set appropriate inventory levels, and monitor and improve forecasting and inventory management over time. Explore the impact of inflated inventory levels, diagnose process constraints, and leverage techniques to improve inventory performance.