Accelerated General Management Programme (Batch 18)
IIM Ahmedabad - Executive Education
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About Programme
This one-year programme has been designed specifically to equip working professionals with aspects of general management in a global business environment. This programme comprises of functions of business management as well as contemporary and new age topics which will enable participants to broaden their business perspective and develop on tools and techniques required for managing today’s businesses.
Programme Content
Economics
Microeconomic Analysis and Policies: Explores fundamental economic principles and their applications to decision-making, focusing on market dynamics, consumer behaviour, and government policies.
Economic Environment and Policies: Examines the role of information systems in driving business strategy, innovation, and operational efficiency.
Finance & Accounting
Corporate Finance: Covers financial decision-making, capital structure, and valuation to enhance corporate performance.
Financial Reporting and Analysis: Focuses on interpreting financial statements for informed decision-making and assessing business health.
Managing Cost and Control: Teaches cost management strategies and control systems to optimize resource allocation.
Human Resources Management
Developing Human Resources: Emphasizes strategies to enhance employee capabilities and align human resource development with organizational goals.
Performance Appraisal & Rewards: Examines techniques for evaluating employee performance and designing effective reward systems.
Leadership
Leadership Skills: Explores leadership styles, motivation techniques, and strategies to drive organizational success.
Managing Negotiations: Develops negotiation skills to achieve optimal outcomes in complex business scenarios.
Designing Market Offer and Delivering a Marketing Offering: Sensing Customer Value and Designing, Pricing Decisions, Sales and Distribution Management & Communication Strategy and Management
Marketing Analytics: Analyzing Web Data - Customer Opinions, Customer Valuation, Digital and Social Media Analytics & AI/ML applications in Marketing
Operations and Decision Sciences
Business Analytics and Big Data: Explores data-driven decision-making using advanced analytics and big data tools.
Operations Management: Focuses on optimizing production and operational processes for efficiency and effectiveness.
Quantitative Decision Making: Teaches quantitative methods to solve complex business problems and make informed decisions.
Technology
Managerial Computing: Covers tools and techniques for leveraging computing technologies in managerial roles.
The Social Media and Communicating Corporate Reputation: Examines the strategic use of social media to build and manage corporate reputation.
Capstone: An integrative module enabling participants to apply management concepts to solve real-world business challenges.
This is an indicative list of courses, subject to adjustments or additions to ensure a comprehensive learning experience.
Programme Objective
To give an opportunity for bright and aspiring managers at the senior and middle levels (in large corporates) to understand the concepts, paradigms and theories underlying management.
To understand how management as a set of functions can contribute to effective decision making, leadership and help in developing the strategy and organization of the business.
To develop skills required to take strategic and managerial decisions such as planning, organizational design and change management, implementing new strategies, mergers and acquisitions, operational strategies, manage interfaces with the public, media, and government.
AGMP Boosts:
Professional Transformation: Skill development and mindset change to assume leadership roles in an organization.
CareerAcceleration: Moving up the career ladder faster & taking more complex and high impact roles early in your career.
WorldClassFaculties: With a combination of experience and talent, our faculty creates top-notch programmes and cutting-edge research that influences business around the world.
CaseBasedPedagogy: Case pedagogy provides an action orientation to the learning process.
PeerLearning: A diverse cohort enabling cross-functional peer learning
BalancingProfessionalDevelopmentwith Work Responsibilities: A blended learning program with the flexibility of remote on-site sessions along with periodic on-campus modules
Alumni Status: The opportunity of continued association with a globally renowned management school through the alumni status.
Alumni Benefits
IIMA Alumni Status: Alumni status can be awarded subject to fulfilling evaluation criteria and all the terms and conditions of the programme.
Pedagogy
The pedagogy will be highly interactive. It will leverage use of technology. It will consist of a judicious blend of real-life case studies, immersive simulations and in class lectures.
Programme Audience
Working professionals with at least five years of experience, ideally up to 10 years. The applicants should, at a minimum, be a graduate in any discipline with 50% or more marks.
Participants would be selected based on assessment of their work experience, academic background, and motivation to do the programme as demonstrated in the application form.
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