Advanced Management Course (AMC)

A proven and popular seminar for more than 50 years, this practical and highly interactive program examines management’s major disciplines in depth and from a strategic perspective. The learning-by-doing format includes a realistic business simulation that enables you to respond concretely to complex management decisions and take away ideas that will have immediate impact on the job. This is also an opportunity to gain or renew contacts with leading management decision makers, learn from peer story telling, and gain new perspectives from the faculty team. Delivered in Montreal, Toronto (Mississauga), and online, the format fits well with the workday of busy professionals from in both the public and private sectors.

Key Benefits & Takeaways

• Provides a condensed and up-to-date set of advanced management practices
• Enhances abilities to formulate and communicate key strategies
• Offers ideas to streamline management processes and set meaningful KPI’s and goals
• Integrates late-breaking market, competitive and organizational issues to manage change
• Includes personalized faculty discussions to assist in implementing solutions
• Learn to apply new skills through a realistic and engaging business simulation
• Benchmark yourself & connect with peers from diverse industries/organizations

Topics covered during the program

Business Simulation

This section employs an advanced computer simulation that challenges you to integrate, apply and test the concepts developed during the course. You develop strategies with your team and compete against other teams while enhancing skills in operational finance, strategic pricing, marketing and negotiations.

In-Class Consultation

Challenge ideas and explore opportunities in your organization in consultation with our course leaders. This session provides an opportunity to integrate and apply the tools and strategies discussed in the program to your own business.

Strategic Management

• Understanding strategic issues raised by globalization processes
• Gaining competitive advantage in global markets
• Initiating strategic change in large, mature organizations
• Managing innovation by balancing market risk and technological uncertainty
• Assessing leadership styles and organizational approaches to strategic change
• Creating strategic change in your organization

Managerial Accounting and Control

• Acquiring effective techniques to analyze your firm’s financial operations
• Integrating financial data with operations
• Employing activity-based management
• Applying life-cycle and target-costing
• Using financial and non-financial performance indicators
• Benefiting from capital investments
• Optimizing organizational capabilities

Managing the Whole Firm

• Taking a holistic view of key management challenges and bringing all the elements of your business together to create value.
• Transitioning from silos to cross-functional leadership
• Using business models for value creation
• Understanding the interplay between strategies

Human Skills

Team Building and Presentation Skill will be part of the Business Simulation experience.

Marketing

• Strategic considerations for your tactical approaches
• Competing to win
• B2B marketing
• Marketing Planning
• Effective differentiation
• Brand management
• Build market leadership

Operational Efficiency

• Optimizing and managing all processes around your “value stream”
• Defining benchmarks in business excellence
• Employing effective operations strategy
• Understanding supply chain flows
• Efficient business processes: models and tools