Foundation Module Courses

Toronto, Canada

Business Statistics/Operational Management

From productivity to product quality, statistics can provide managers with essential insights into organizational performance and identify which levers lead to positive change. This course addresses how statistics can be used to meet many day-to-day business challenges. It focuses on key stages of statistical analysis: (a) definition of the managerial problem; (b) statistical formulation of the problem; (c) data collection; (d) data analysis; (e) conclusions about the statistical problem; and (f) what light this analysis sheds on the managerial problem. In the latter stages of the course, students are asked to apply their learning to an actual challenge currently faced by their company. In the past, this exercise has sometimes led to five- and six-figure savings for the companies in question.

Global Strategic Management

Navigating in a field of growing complexity and risk is proving increasingly challenging for professional general managers. Global Strategic Management makes substantial use of cases and articles to connect theory with application. Addressing core concepts, the course builds on a comprehensive and coherent framework to create an integrated approach to relating and applying diverse streams of strategic management research and practice. This framework draws together “four-plus-one” critical areas of strategy: initiating the process, defining strategic positioning, delivering value and leading change—plus performance management.

Organizational Leadership

How do you organize and motivate the human capital of the firm, manage social networks and alliances, and execute strategic change? Organizational Leadership explores some of the theories, skills and tools needed to solve organizational problems and to influence the actions of individuals and groups within the firm. It focuses on the management issues that a leader needs to understand when building the high-performing global organization.