Advance Programme in Corporate Strategy & Business Leadership (Batch 04)

Unlocking Leadership Potential: Preparing Leaders to Navigate Disruption, Leverage AI, and Build Future-Ready Organisations.

The Advanced Programme in Corporate Strategy and Business Leadership offered by the Indian Institute of Management Indore is designed to equip leaders and strategists to succeed in today’s evolving business environment, where the world is grappling with constant change, organisations increasingly adopting rapid automation, and redefining job roles.

The programme combines strategic thinking, leadership capabilities, and AI-driven analytics to accelerate business growth. The programme encompasses a blended learning approach that includes case studies, assignments, workshops, quizzes, and applied learning through simulations.

Bridging the Skill-Gap In business, the difference between success and failure often lies in the strength of corporate strategy and effective leadership. Organisations succeed when leaders can anticipate trends and threats, formulate clear strategies, and effectively translate their vision, mission, goals, and objectives into meaningful action.

The Advanced Programme in Corporate Strategy and Business Leadership helps leaders think strategically, plan proactively, and execute effectively. It encourages participants to move beyond outdated approaches and adopt modern strategic perspectives, enabling them to develop the mindset needed to lead organisations toward lasting success

Programme Contents

Module 1: Leading with strategy and implementing Business growth

Introduction to Strategic analysis, strategy formulation, and implementation

Corporate strategy and business strategies

Digital platform business Models

Organic vs Inorganic growth

Mergers and Acquisitions

Module 2: Managerial Accounting and Corporate Valuation

Financial report analysis

Strategic cost management

Corporate governance and ESG

Cost of capital

Corporate valuation

Module 3: How to become a transformational leader

Introduction to Change Management.

Change and Organizational culture.

Managing resistance to change.

Change management strategies.

Module 4: Organizational Design

Environmental analysis and impact of the environment on the design of organizations

Aligning Organizations Objectives Goals Vision

Organizational structuring and restructuring

Managing organizational culture

Module 5: Theory of Constraints for Strategic Decision-Making

Root cause analysis using causeeffect logic

Throughput-based decision-making

Conflict resolution using Systems Tools

Designing and validating winwin solution

Module 6: Developing Customer centricity in organizations

Connecting Customer Centricity with Organizational goals

Segmentation Persona Development

Customer Journey Cycle

Job-to-be-done framework

Module 7: Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence

Understanding the People, Process, and Technology Framework and its applications

Use of Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Digital Transformation

Generative Artificial Intelligence

Applications of Various gen-AI tools, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, perplexity, and Claude.

Prompt Engineering

Agentic Artificial Intelligence and Ethical AI

Duration Number of Session Hours

Duration:

8 Months

Number of Hours:

94 hours. approx

.

Number of Sessions (75 Minutes each):

75 sessions

Online: sessions:

63 sessions

On-campus module

03 days duration:

around 12 sessions

(Towards the end)

One or two sessions from some of the courses will become part of the on-campus orientation module. In case the on-campus module is not conducted due to the Covid situation, the same will be included in the total number of sessions.

The programme duration may be slightly extended due to the issues like faculty unavailability and gazetted holidays on the session days.

The pedagogy will be a judicious mix of Conceptual Teaching, Case Studies and Discussions.

This programme’s virtual live-online format is designed to accommodate Sr Executives requirement of learning over the weekend

The Sessions will build on the learning of the Sr Executives and unravel as the programme roadmap unfolds

Participants will be encouraged to apply concepts through business case analyses, and solution-driven, problem-solving discussions

Sessions include Q&A time, which allows an opportunity to explore concepts with programme faculty.