IIM Bangalore - Executive Education

Strategic Stewardship: Integrated Strategy to Create Sustainable Value

IIM Bangalore - Executive Education

General Management
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About Programme

Strategic stewardship has been increasingly important for business leaders who are facing multifaceted challenges, particularly while dealing with corporate social responsibility, ESG norms, corporate crisis management and proactively avoiding negative public relations. Strategic stewards engage in strategic decision-making aimed at enhancing shareholder value while pursuing innovative, market-friendly strategies that also generate shared value for stakeholders. This short-duration programme is meticulously designed to equip senior leaders with the skills and insights needed to navigate the 21st century’s strategic dilemmas while running their businesses. Participants will learn to understand and balance the diverse needs of their stakeholders, transforming their organizations through effective and innovative strategies.

Programme Content

The Design methodology
What is good for the firms?
What is good for the market?
What is good for stakeholders and society?
Strategy for the commons

Programme Objective

Leaders today grapple with critical questions such as “What should be the right price for insulin? Are gig workers employees? How should online speech be regulated, if at all? How much pollution is acceptable?”. This course tries to answer such questions by delving into strategic stewardship, by focusing on enhancing shareholder value while implementing innovative, market-friendly strategies that benefit all stakeholders. Strategic stewards adopt a proactive and integrated approach, considering the interconnected impacts of their decisions on society, markets, and their businesses.

Pedagogy

This immersive program adopts a practical, hands-on approach. Participants will follow a structured, step-by-step process to evaluate and formulate strategies required for their organizations, apart from learning through real-world business cases. This methodology encourages senior leaders to directly apply learned concepts, ensuring actionable insights and strategies that are ready for implementation.

Programme Audience

Who Should ParticipateThis program is ideal for senior leaders and executives who are responsible for making strategic decisions with significant implications for crisis communication, corporate social responsibility, and corporate governance. It is particularly suited for those aiming to lead their organizations with foresight and empathy, ensuring sustainable success in the 21st century.

Programme Benefits

Key Benefits/TakeawaysThe course is designed with the following specific objectives and learning outcomes:

Learning the concept of strategic stewardship, ESG norms, and new approaches to strategic thinking.
Learning the concepts of pro-business, pro-market, and pro-society.
Learning and applying design-thinking methodology.
Developing awareness of the various visible and invisible stakeholders of a business and their needs.
Crafting strategies that create long-term and sustainable value for the firm, while also contributing to the greater commons.
As the programme is offered in a workshop format, participants can revisit their current organisational strategies, streamline and improve them based on the learnings from the classroom discussions.

As a participant of this Short Duration Programme, you will be able to enjoy some exclusive benefits other than the outcomes such as skills and knowledge enhancement and building specific competencies that can help shape your career growth.

Some of the exclusive benefits of attending this programme are listed below –

Receive Executive Education eNewsletters
Invitation to share articles to the EEP blog (subject to a shortlisting process
Participate in EEP webinars on various topics
Invitation to curated events and programs by the EEP office

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