Executive Programme in Growth Strategies for Business Leaders (EPGSBL)
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Strategy And Entrepreneurship Programmes
About Programme
The heady opportunities available in a high growth economy amidst global technological disruption encourage business leaders to craft and execute business strategies for sustained growth. Growth, however, poses several challenges and successful management of growth strategies require careful crafting by managers. Rapid growth often introduces novel complexities in organizations. New forms and modes of coordination of work, processes and practices are needed to be designed and managed. This programme is aimed at addressing such concerns so that managers can make more deliberated choices around options of growth.
The inputs in this programme have been designed with a strategy eye, and a ‘general management’ focus. It will deal explicitly with issues of power, control and governance, including designing of such systems as to enable the realization of desired control. Managing and designing the internal systems and environment of the organization as well as designing inter-organizational cooperation and coordination arrangements will be major focus areas of the programme. Managing growth is not only an economic question of organizational financial performance, but extends far beyond into managing identities, aspirations, expectations of various stakeholders around an organization.
Programme Content
The programme will have 4 main modules. The 4 (four) main modules along with short descriptions of each module is indicated below:
Mastering Growth Mechanics
Analytical clarity to chart a growth path:
Linking growth and profitability,
Business Model Innovation as growth driver,
Non-Linear Growth in Platforms,
Anticipating and dealing with conflicts and cooperation in growth path
Leveraging Innovation for Growth
Organizing to leverage innovation:
Organization designing for implementing growth and scaling,
Designs for building agility for a VUCA world,
Sourcing, evaluating and scaling new ideas in organizations, Locating, creating, managing and supporting the innovator in the organization, Ambidexterity and dynamic capabilities.
Orchestrating Ecosystem for Growth
Managing competitive and cooperative relations in value chains,
Managing inter-firm relations,
Managing alliances and joint ventures,
Competing to set industry Standards (Standard Races),
Governing ecosystem for orchestrating growth along preferred paths
Building Long Term Pillars for Sustenance of Growth
Negotiating and managing stakeholder expectations, managing trade-offs between the long and the short-term expectations.
Building capabilities inside organizations and in ecosystem partners, Building and managing organizational identities
Business transformation strategy & turnaround management
Design Thinking & Product Value Creation
Alumni Benefits
LDP participants who complete the programme successfully become the Alumni of IIMC Executive Education, which currently has over 35,000 members.
LDP Alumni are given an email-id in the IIM Calcutta domain.
LDP Alumni can register in the IIM Calcutta Alumni portal either with this email-id or with their personal email-ids. The IIM Calcutta Alumni portal is a common platform for Alumni of all programmes of the Institute to interact with each other and stay connected with the Institute.
The Institute shares newsletters, important news and articles about the Institute and its activities, the achievements of the Institute's faculty, staff, students and alumni, upcoming events and programmes etc., on the portal.
Alumni can post their achievements, write about jobs or LIVE project opportunities for other alumni to see.
The IIM Calcutta alumni network can also be accessed on mobile phones through the mobile app.
Executive Education Alumni are entitled to a discount of 5% on the programme fee if they opt to do another LDP.
By using the different features of the IIM Calcutta portal, alumni across programmes can engage with each other in many meaningful ways. It is up to the alumni themselves to leverage the platform
Pedagogy
Pedagogy
Lectures
Case discussions: Each week participants will have compulsory reading/assignments for the week’s class
Intensive and integrated faculty-guided project work on a live case/problem spread across the course duration
Guest lectures from practitioners
Simulation
Lectures
Case discussions: Each week participants will have compulsory reading/assignments for the week’s class
Intensive and integrated faculty-guided project work on a live case/problem spread across the course duration
Guest lectures from practitioners
Simulation
Programme Audience
Senior and middle level managers and profit centre heads would find the programme particularly useful. Working professionals wishing to participate in the programme need to have a minimum experience of 10 years. Managers with longer and broader experience would benefit more from the programme.
Testimonials
"I hold a degree in Chemical Engineering and have accumulated six years of experience in a business development role. Throughout my career, I've been responsible for crafting and executing forward-thinking strategies for my company. Before embarking on this course, my knowledge of business development and strategy was primarily based on my hands-on experience. Enrolling in this course was driven by my desire to gain a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical foundations and the various challenges encountered in different industries, along with the strategies employed to overcome them. The course, rich with numerous case studies, has proven to be an invaluable resource for learning and applying these concepts in my current role, as well as in any future projects I undertake. I wholeheartedly recommend this course, particularly to those in mid-senior to senior-level positions, as it seamlessly integrates theory with practical learning through real-life case studies and problem-solving. Moreover, the professor's expertise in caurrent strategic trends and their practical application adds substantial value to the course. It's safe to say that this course is a true mental stimulant."
Shailee Khandelwal
Head - Business development
"I am Gangadhar Padmannagari, working in top tier Investment Banking Domain, was looking for an Executive Programme can help me to enhance my Strategic thinking and improve Critical Thinking to sharpen my analytical clarity of complex organization problems and provide Strategic formulation and execution. This 1 year long Programme helped to enhance my skillset to absorb various strategic perspectives looking with different lenses and expand my capabilities. This Programme helped to take strategic decisions in the organization during VUCA situations, and understanding Strategic Plans for the organization to execute the strategic decisions to achieve organizational goals in the ambitious Journey over long run. I would like to Thank Program directors Professor Biswatosh Saha and Kaushik Roy for the lovely interactive sessions, which made us learn the concepts well, and transformed the way we look at things with strategic lens and bring new perspectives using strategic frameworks. Really appreciate the use of real case examples and discussions around what drives company growth, and how you make trade-offs. With the Campus immersion Programme, i felt like dream come true moment studying in a Premium and esteemed Business School, i strongly recommend this EPGSBL programme to those who want to gain Business and organizational essential skillset required to think, formulate and execute the winning Strategic decisions to drive Growth, Profitability and sustainability."