Business Leadership Programme PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION Learning Agenda: Duke CE has designed a customised programme for senior leaders in IT looking to broaden their Duke CE’s Business Leadership Programme develops business mindset and cultivate new skills. This three-module immersive leaders who can innovate and lead change in today’s rapidly journey will take you and your cohort through the changing changing environment. landscape of leadership and technology, outlining and developing the new competencies needed to thrive. Duke The programme is designed to provide the skills and CE will provide insights on the holistic view of the business – capability for senior managers with the necessary experience from the interlocking of operations, project management, and and recognised potential to transition into the CIO Role. finance. Lastly, you will be sent out with the courage to change The shift is towards creating transformation leaders who both you and your organisation, and the innovative approach understand the new world and how to navigate this landscape. that will become a differentiator for you in your career.
At Duke CE, we prepare the next generation of CIOs for PROGRAMME DIFFERENTIATORS what’s next. Benefits Business-centric Create leaders who can effectively lead in context, lead the • Learn from globally-renowned faculty & thought leaders enterprise, lead others and self, and implement change. • Experience unique Duke CE immersive learning methods Experiential Learning: Participants learn by doing and • Visit unique learning destinations with their own takes on processing experiences. Our program involves extensive use Innovation of Metaphoric Experience™, an approach pioneered by • Exchange ideas with world-leading companies apply what Duke Corporate Education. you learn directly back to YOUR business Faculty: World-class thought leaders from around the Leadership Skills Development to drive Business vision: globe. We draw on business school and university faculties The world of information technology has changed, and as well as coaches, facilitators, actors, consultants, industry then it changed again. Last night, as you slept, 40 million experts, executives, and others that form our Global Educator photos were taken on Instagram, MIT roboticists tweaked Network. their prototype of an autonomous cheetah robot, Google Lifelong Learning: The programme stresses a learning driverless cars navigated Lombard Street, and futurists process for monitoring and understanding the global revised predictions about how many jobs will be replaced by landscape and converting the implications into an action automation in the future. No longer is technology simply used plan. The learning process teaches leaders how to be curious to help accomplish business strategy; now it is creating new thinkers and is the basis for continued lifetime business strategies. learning over their careers. Leaders in the IT world must be equipped for this new landscape. To thrive in this complex and uncertain world, you need more than raw information on the latest trends or tools to help expedite projects. You need a new mindset, one capable of learning, unlearning, and relearning daily.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Understanding the Macro View of Global Trends • Ability to manage and drive Innovation Culture for the organisation • Understanding the trends that are driving significant changes in Innovation and Technology which impact Building Resilience and Agility Leadership Skills to Lead value creation and Drive Change
• Recognise the trends to identify opportunities for leverage • Preparing leaders to drive change in the organisation to drive growth within the organisation • Develop the skill to maintain a constant readiness for Identifying the systemic interactions between the the unexpected strategic focus, operational levers and financial focus for • Demonstrate Leadership Agility organisation • Understand the importance for coaching and developing • Applying an Ecosystem perspective to understand how teams to drive Vision Value creation through Innovation can be optimised Broadening mindsets and PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
cultivating new skills to Please Note: Programme dates are still being scheduled. Contact [email protected] to be notified when navigate our changing world dates are finalised. of uncertainty – developing Pre-Work transformational leaders Participants complete assessment tools and are provided that drive innovation with case studies as part of intercession or pre-work on programmes.
The New Landscape of IT Leadership Mindset Session (Johannesburg, South Africa) Expand and shift perspective 1 • Macroeconomic View on Global Trends • Understanding my world and my Leadership Role Leading in context • Expanding Leadership Capabilities to Focus on Leading Values that Drive Vision the enterprise • Developing and Coaching Others Leading others • Inspiring your Teams: Understanding Group Dynamic, Inter- Diversity Management Leading session self Toolset Skillset Provide practical Build skills to tools that bridge address the key concept to challenges as application senior leaders
Holistic Leadership: Understanding the full Session spectrum of Business Drivers 2 (Johannesburg, South Africa) • Strategic Understanding of levers within the business-Macro View • Operational Excellence and Financial Levers to drive Strategic vision • Project Management to support operational and Inter- financial drivers session • Leadership Vision to drive change
Innovation: Cultivating Visionary Thinking Session (Johannesburg, South Africa) 3 • Disruptive Innovative Thinking becoming the norm • Developing a Vision for Driving Innovation as a Culture • Leading Change, Influencing and Collaboration GLOBAL REACH, LOCAL INSIGHT.
About Duke CE At the intersection of business and education Duke Corporate Education (Duke CE), a global provider of learning and development services that helps clients address their business challenges, is a blend of a business and a university – but distinct from both.
Borrowing from the university world, we offer a thoughtful, stimulating forum for safe and open expression by everyone; and from the business world, we bring the values of client service and of being driven by client outcomes. Duke University Campus The worlds of business, of education, of established and growing markets – Duke CE brings them together to offer our Partners clients more than they expect. Duke University A very diverse group of academics and Our parent, Duke University, is consistently ranked among business practitioners the best American universities. It provides rich research and teaching expertise among its many schools including business, We are staffed by a very diverse group of 125 people, law, medicine, and the environment. including academics and business practitioners. Fuqua School of Business Our headquarters are in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Other offices are in London, UK; Johannesburg, South Africa; Duke’s Fuqua School of Business has established itself as one Singapore; and Ahmedabad, India; as well as of the leading business schools in the world, and was ranked San Diego, California in the USA. the No.1 full time MBA in Bloomberg Businessweek’s most recent rankings in 2014. This ranking is an acknowledgment of the intellectual capital, quality of the students and alumni, and Consistent Excellence thought leadership on business issues.
Duke CE is consistently rated as the best in the world.
The Financial Times has ranked Duke CE among the top 3 Cost global providers for the last 15 years and #1 for 12 straight BLP: ZAR 69 000 per person ex VAT years (2003-2014). Includes tuition, instructional materials, accommodation, And, BusinessWeek ranked us #1 in their biennial survey 6 meals and supplemental accommodation. times in a row. Airfare and subsistence allowance not included.
For more on programme fees, dates and registration forms please contact: [email protected]
For more information on Duke CE, visit us at: www.dukece.com