SENIOR MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

SENIOR MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
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Overview

In today's V.U.C.A. [V]olatile, [U]ncertain, [C]omplex, and [A]mbiguous business world, simply having years of project experience isn't enough to deliver valued outcomes. Companies around the world are not only looking for talented, qualified candidates, they're seeking senior managers with expertise but also globally recognized certifications from world-class institutions of higher education. Having these credentials demonstrate your professional growth and commitment to developing skills in: Leadership, Strategic Business Management, and Technical ProjectManagement.


Senior Managers (SM) must transform into Industry 4.0 Senior Managers to meet the requirements of being a multi jurisdictional and multidimensional problem solver of the 21st Century. Why?


Industry 4.0 embraces the challenges of a global ecosystem filled with [V]olitality, [U]ncertanty,[C]omplexity, and [A]mbiguity, where human beings confront a daunting array of problems that demand new solutions. Digital disruption, climate changes, global pandemics, failed states, narco-crime, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, environmental degradation --- meeting these challenges will require inventing new innovative systems involving streamlined operations, automated processes, and real-time descriptive/predictive/prescriptive analytics. The Industry4.0 Senior Manager must leverage skills as a leader, strategist, and facilitator to solve multidimensional and multi-jurisdictional problems.


Earning credentials from CCU's Senior Management Program provides the only globally recognized Senior Management (SM) Credentials, from the world leader in CorporateEducation, as proof of the investment you have made in your personhood to lead, think strategically, and facilitate locally the implementation of digitization, automation, and the increased use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to deliver value-added business solutions that provide your company with a competitive advantage.


The Senior Management Program (SMP) at Cambridge Corporate University offers professionals the opportunity to earn the following credentials 100 online :


CCU Senior Management Certificate SMC® (12 month)

CCU MBA in Senior Management MBA-SM (18 month)


Additionally, the Senior Management Program Curriculum at Cambridge Corporate University includes the Project Management Institute (PMI) PMP® Certification Exam Prep Course, which ensures your ability and readiness to pass the PMP® Exam.

In today's V.U.C.A. [V]olatile, [U]ncertain, [C]omplex, and [A]mbiguous business world, simply having years of project experience isn't enough to deliver valued outcomes. Companies around the world are not only looking for talented, qualified candidates, they're seeking senior managers with expertise but also globally recognized certifications from world-class institutions of higher education. Having these credentials demonstrate your professional growth and commitment to developing skills in: Leadership, Strategic Business Management, and Technical ProjectManagement.


Senior Managers (SM) must transform into Industry 4.0 Senior Managers to meet the requirements of being a multi jurisdictional and multidimensional problem solver of the 21st Century. Why?


Industry 4.0 embraces the challenges of a global ecosystem filled with [V]olitality, [U]ncertanty,[C]omplexity, and [A]mbiguity, where human beings confront a daunting array of problems that demand new solutions. Digital disruption, climate changes, global pandemics, failed states, narco-crime, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, environmental degradation --- meeting these challenges will require inventing new innovative systems involving streamlined operations, automated processes, and real-time descriptive/predictive/prescriptive analytics. The Industry4.0 Senior Manager must leverage skills as a leader, strategist, and facilitator to solve multidimensional and multi-jurisdictional problems.


Earning credentials from CCU's Senior Management Program provides the only globally recognized Senior Management (SM) Credentials, from the world leader in CorporateEducation, as proof of the investment you have made in your personhood to lead, think strategically, and facilitate locally the implementation of digitization, automation, and the increased use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to deliver value-added business solutions that provide your company with a competitive advantage.


The Senior Management Program (SMP) at Cambridge Corporate University offers professionals the opportunity to earn the following credentials 100 online :


CCU Senior Management Certificate SMC® (12 month)

CCU MBA in Senior Management MBA-SM (18 month)


Additionally, the Senior Management Program Curriculum at Cambridge Corporate University includes the Project Management Institute (PMI) PMP® Certification Exam Prep Course, which ensures your ability and readiness to pass the PMP® Exam.

The program is the only accredited higher education corporate program that offers participants the opportunity to master the art of Senior Management (SM), certified by theWorld Leading Corporate University SMC®, awarded the elite MBA-SM credentials, and prepared to obtain the PMP® certification.

The program is the only accredited higher education corporate program that offers participants the opportunity to master the art of Senior Management (SM), certified by theWorld Leading Corporate University SMC®, awarded the elite MBA-SM credentials, and prepared to obtain the PMP® certification.

Senior Management Program (SMP)

Learning Outcomes

During the CCU Senior Management Program (SMP), you will learn:

1.) Global Leadership Behaviors and Management Best Practices for a V.U.C.A world:

• How to gain the complete trust of your team and capture their full heads, hearts, and hands

• How to see and face all the realities that are in front of you. Have the courage to notice the signs regarding yourself, others, or even the markets, customers, projects, opportunities, or other external realities and make decisions to prevent them from reaching your goals

• How to work in a way that leverages your abilities and resources to produce the desired outcome(s)

• How to deal with problem people, negative situations, obstacles, failures, setbacks, and losses

• How to create growth in your organization(s), your people, yourself, your profits, or your industry

• How to transcend your interests and give yourself to larger purposes, thus become part of a larger mission

2.) Strategic Project Management skill for Industry 4.0:

• What makes project management the Strategic Enabler

• The Seven Phases of the Industry 4.0 Implementation Process

• Unique Characteristics of Intelligent Automation (I.A.)

• Differentiating Intelligent Automation (I.A.) and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)

• The phases of the Performance Improvement Innovation Lifecycle

• Agile and Traditional Project Management in Industry 4.0

• Initiating components of an Industry 4.0 Project

• Planning components of an Industry 4.0 Project

• How to use a Work Breakdown Structure to create an Industry 4.0 Project

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• How to schedule an Industry 4.0 Project

• Techniques, Tools, and Procedures to estimating Industry 4.0 project costs

• Techniques, Tools, and Procedures to controlling the quality of Industry 4.0 projects

• Industry 4.0 project management responsibilities

• Things to consider when organizing a team for an Industry 4.0 project

• Leadership and management styles to managing conflict

• How to conduct project problem analysis

• Issues, systems, and guidelines to project reporting

• The importance of integrated change control in Traditional and Agile Project Management

• Techniques, Tools, and Procedures for effective and efficient evaluation and completion of an Industry 4.0 project.

3.) Project Management Institute (PMI) PMP® Certification Exam Prep Course:

• PMBOK® Guide Latest Edition principles, approaches, processes, and procedures to pass the new version of the PMP® Exam

4.) Performance Management for Senior Managers – Integrating Strategy Execution,Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics:

• How to successfully implement and integrate the various methodologies of performance management.

• How methodologies like forecasting demand, measuring performance, measuring segmented profits and costs, and planning for resource levels can themselves be integrated.

• Why analytics of all flavors, and especially predictive analytics, improve decision making.

• The importance of behavioral and change management issues.

• The difference between business intelligence and performance management.

• How to measure and manage customer profitability and future value.

• How governance and social responsibilities for people and the environment can be addressed using the same performance management methodologies used to improve an individual enterprise’s economic performance.

• The role risk management plays in performance management.

• What a future vision of enterprise risk-based performance may include

• How to successfully implement and integrate the various methodologies of performance management.

• How methodologies like forecasting demand, measuring performance, measuring segmented profits and costs, and planning for resource levels can themselves be integrated.

• Why analytics of all flavors, and especially predictive analytics, improve decision making.

• The importance of behavioral and change management issues.

• The difference between business intelligence and performance management.

• How to measure and manage customer profitability and future value.

• How governance and social responsibilities for people and the environment can be addressed using the same performance management methodologies used to improve an individual enterprise’s economic performance.

• The role risk management plays in performance management.

• What a future vision of enterprise risk-based performance may include

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5.) Financial Management for Senior Managers:

• Applying accounting principles and guidelines when evaluating a company’s financial position

• To apply the major ratios to analyze financial performance and strength

• How to explore different methods to analyze investment projects

• How to forecast cash flows and discount rates for investment decision-making

• How to articulate and apply the principles of value-based management

• How to investigate the key methods for business valuation

• Make value-based decisions with Activity-Based Costing (ABC)/Activity-BasedManagement (ABM)

6.) The Role of Senior Managers in Barriers to Change:

• The difference between change management and organizational transformation

• Individual and Organizational Change Management methodologies

• Why change initiatives have such an abysmal performance rate

• The barriers of change for senior managers, front line managers, middle-level managers, top-level managers.

• Why leaders at all levels are change managers

• How to prepare to be an effective change manager

• How to inspire and empower your team to get involved

• To ask the right questions to translate from mission to strategy initiatives

• To understand the characterizations of the levels of managers and their tendencies to resist change.

• Techniques for Overcoming Resistance to Change and Selection of Appropriate Technique

7.) Strategy and Strategy Execution for Senior Managers:

• The role senior management plays in simplifying strategic planning and management with the Balanced Scorecard

• Recognize the barriers to strategic execution--UPFRONT

• Use the Balanced Scorecard as a Communication tool, Measurement system, andStrategic Management System

• To ask the right questions to translate from mission to strategy initiatives

• Apply Two-Speed Execution using Strategy Maps and O.K.R.s to balance measurement throughout your organization

8.) Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)/Intelligent Automation (I.A.) Foundations for Senior Managers:

• From a senior manager perspective, what is artificial intelligence?

• From a senior manager perspective, what is intelligent automation?

• How will A.I. influence business strategy?

• How will A.I. impact me and my staff—negatively or positively?

• What are the major management risks from A.I.?

• The principles to responsible uses of AI

Who Developed the Program?

The Senior Management Programs (SMP) was developed by talented faculty and thought leaders at the Department of Business Innovation and Digital Transformation (BIDT) at the Albert Schweitzer School of Management (ASSM) in Cambridge Corporate University under the direct supervision of the CCU PROVOST, Prof. Dr. Frank Harper who is also the Program Director.  Each module was created by CCU scholars, researchers, and corporate teams, ensuring that a range of corporate senior management perspectives is integrated into the course material.

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Who can attend these courses 

Senior Managers

Project Management Professional (PMP®) aspirants

Associate Project Management Professional (CAPM®) aspirants

Project Managers

Associate/Assistant Managers – Projects

Team leads / Managers

Project Executives / Engineers

Software Developers

Any professional aspiring to become an Industry 4.0 Project Manager

Who can attend these courses 

Senior Managers

Project Management Professional (PMP®) aspirants

Associate Project Management Professional (CAPM®) aspirants

Project Managers

Associate/Assistant Managers – Projects

Team leads / Managers

Project Executives / Engineers

Software Developers

Any professional aspiring to become an Industry 4.0 Project Manager

CCU LEARNING MODEL

Cambridge Corporate University's learning model is unique, innovative, digital, transformative, and live. It is the CCU learning model that educates participants about the futuristic model ofCrowd Innovation via an artistic Online Learning Model.


It is only at CCU that the online portal is a real lecturing hall, where the instructor interacts face to face with students from different countries around the world.

The CCU-Learning model offers a unique opportunity for industry professionals, entrepreneurs, and researchers to become part of the Crowd Innovation model at Cambridge CorporateUniversity.

On-Campus – Online

Cambridge Corporate University is the World's Leading Corporate Institute of higher education, where most of our programs are offered entirely online. CCU is the land of futurists, where we created our own digital age and innovative learning culture ahead from the world, and it became part of our history and culture.

At CCU, you have the option to complete your degree on campus in Switzerland, on one of our international campuses available in 19 countries worldwide (CCU Corporate Center Programs), or via the CCU live model of online education. The CCU online learning model appeals to busy professionals' needs in the digital age and offers one of the most informative and challenging education models. Students interact with faculty, executives, and colleagues from different cultures, industries, and research setups via the various CCU online portals.

Cambridge Corporate University is the World's Leading Corporate Institute of higher education, where most of our programs are offered entirely online. CCU is the land of futurists, where we created our own digital age and innovative learning culture ahead from the world, and it became part of our history and culture.

At CCU, you have the option to complete your degree on campus in Switzerland, on one of our international campuses available in 19 countries worldwide (CCU Corporate Center Programs), or via the CCU live model of online education. The CCU online learning model appeals to busy professionals' needs in the digital age and offers one of the most informative and challenging education models. Students interact with faculty, executives, and colleagues from different cultures, industries, and research setups via the various CCU online portals.

MBA-SM / Study that fits your life

At CCU Switzerland, you can complete your study and earn your prestigious degree while keeping your job and maintaining your income. The flexible study model in our classes allows students to plan their time and enjoy the corporate mode of study and achievement.

CCU MBA SM / Innovative Approach

THE INNOVATIVE APPROACH OF the CCU online learning model is no different from other university techniques; it is always futuristic, innovative, and unique. CCU is an organisation that chooses innovation as its way of life and offers one of the first-ever known innovation certifications and credentials, the 'Certified Professional Innovator' CPI, in 1983.


This approach reflects on the way our students, researchers, and participants learn and interact via a set of structured tools and techniques:

• The MBA SM Live Lecturing Model

• The MBA SM Scenario-CaseStudy

• The MBA SM Discussion Groups and Workshops

• The MBA SM Alumni and Friends Networking Portal

• The MBA SM Questions Articles Assignment Technique

• The MBA SM Internship Program

• The MBA SM ALSKLS Model

• The MBA SM AI Learning Tools

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