Senior Management Program

Managing as a Leader

• Understanding self, 
• managing relationships,
•  managing inner critic, 
• managing differences in organizational context,
• managing within organizational hierarchies. 
• Leadership styles and skills, 
• earning trust and building relationships, 
• leading for long-term results, 
• addressing the competing demands of all stakeholders, 
• fostering leadership systems.

• Modes of strategic thinking, 
• evaluating alternatives and choices, 
• assessing the strategic impact of competitors' moves, 
• pursuing competitive advantage,
• Formulation
• execution of strategies.

Negotiation & Conflict Resolution

• Identifying effective bargaining styles, 
• identifying influential players to anticipate barriers to and opportunities for negotiated agreements, 
• framing persuasive arguments, 
• cultivating relationships to build trust.

Strategic Supply Chains

• Managing value chains and managing risks in supply chain networks,
• efficiency versus effectiveness, 
• operations optimization techniques to reduce costs, 
• effective supply chain growth.

Nurturing Innovation

• Imbibing innovative mindset, 
• Organization design for innovation, 
• Startup ecosystem, 
• Valuing and financing innovation.

Delivering Business Growth

• Winning in the new normal, 
• Make or buy growth decisions, 
• Mergers and acquisitions, 
• Decision making under uncertainty, 
• Creating an opportunity-focused organization, 
• Scaling fast.

Communication Strategies

• Building emotional intelligence to communicate effectively, 
• Managing difficult conversations, 
• Communicating across cultures, 
• Maximizing persuasive potential, 
• Navigating interpersonal dynamics, 
• Communication through chatbots.

Change Management

• Organizational inertia, 
• Organizing for change, 
• Use of metrics and measurement to motivate change, 
• Building a learning-ready organization, 
• Managing resistance to change.

Data & AI: Technology foundations for Leaders

• Understanding how AI works, 
• demystification of technologies behind AI. Deeper appreciation of the power and limitations of modern AI.

Operating Model Transformation with AI

• Exploring practical use-cases of modern AI tools for forecasting,
• decision support, 
• customer service, 
• content creation.

Business Model Transformation with AI

• Understanding how AI transforms industries, 
• from automation to innovation, 
• integrating AI into core business models.

Organization Models to Catalyze AI Transformation

• Explore how AI is reshaping the future of work and the organizational capabilities and skills needed to succeed in the emerging business landscape.

AI Ethics, Bias, and Governance in Leadership

• Addressing ethical concerns, 
• fairness, 
• transparency, 
• accountability in AI-enabled organizations.

International Geopolitics

• Dynamics of geopolitics

• The geopolitics of energy

• Lessons from globalization

Corporate Sustainability

• Sustainable supply chain management
• Sustainability marketing
• CSR and sustainability
• Climate change and business imperatives
• Green bonds

• Developing a design-centric culture
• Overcoming behavioral biases against design thinking
• Understanding customer needs
• Applied creativity and prototyping
• Design for services

Capstone Exercise (Business Management Simulation)

• Description: Business/Capstone simulation immerses participants in strategic decision-making across key business functions, including R&D, marketing, production, and finance. Each round represents a business year, challenging participants to analyze market conditions, refine strategies, and compete in a dynamic environment.

• Timing: During the final campus immersion

• Format: Team-based project evaluated by IIMU faculty

• Scope:

  • Select a real or simulated organizational challenge

  • Present board-level recommendations and execution roadmap

• Objectives:

  • Integrate cross-module learning into a high-stakes decision context

  • Develop executive-level thinking and collaborative leadership