This course is designed to advance the professional development of entrepreneurs, corporate venture capital executives, and others involved in entrepreneurial environments. The emphasis of this training course is on leveraging creativity, innovation, and strategy to optimize market results.
The purpose of this comprehensive course is to assist you in developing or enhancing your ability to lead and manage new developments while sustaining excellent results. It provides practical skills to take back to your areas of responsibility, along with insights needed to adapt the principles to every industry.
To maximize potential opportunities, successful entrepreneurs combine and leverage innovation, creativity, strategy, leadership, operations, marketing, and finance.
Designing a strategic planning process to achieve lasting change
Implementing a culture of “continuous improvement”
Understanding creativity and using specific tools to gain the best results
Harnessing innovation so that the outputs deliver impact
Applying best practice principles to develop high-value activities
Create, identify, and evaluate new venture opportunities
Start and build a successful company
Leverage new science and technologies from corporate or university laboratories
Create and build high-value companies to be globally successful
Balance innovation and risk to optimize results
The training course leader will deploy a full range of dynamic and interactive training methods. This will comprise a carefully balanced mix of conventional teaching, supported by real examples and case experiences of individual issues. In addition, delegates will be given the chance to work in groups on case studies to apply new skills in the key aspects of this subject. Above all, the training seminar leader will illustrate the main learning points with examples of real-life situations in which he has been personally involved.
Having experts in-house to develop entrepreneurial opportunities
Achieving higher productivity of personnel involved in these ventures
Improved performance of corporate partners
Better ways to plan and measure results of entrepreneurial decisions
Realizing how to optimize options when facing opportunities and choice
Better integration between functional areas leading to better decisions
Developing an improved understanding of the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship
Knowing how to evaluate the risks and rewards of innovation
Being able to calculate the strategic and financial value of an investment
Understanding to cost/benefit of a decision
Enhancing their knowledge with the use of business models and case studies
Understanding the link between operations, marketing, and finance to entrepreneurial success
This course is designed for all those who want to enhance, update, and refine their entrepreneurial skills. It is also very applicable to aspiring entrepreneurs, corporate “intrapreneurs”, corporate venture officers, and those who would like to develop or strengthen the skills and enhance the climate of innovation and/or entrepreneurship in their organizations.
Corporate Finance Officers
Strategic Planners
Accounting
Lenders
Investors
Merger and Acquisition Specialists
Corporate Officers
Commercial and investment bankers
Securities Analysts
Private Equity Specialists
Asset Managers
And other individuals whose professional future may be enhanced by an understanding of development through innovative entrepreneurial activity
What is the potential of your business for sustained profitable growth?
How strong is your current competitive position?
What are the factors that will influence future performance?
Leading-edge Tools and Techniques in Strategic Planning
The Strategic Requirement for Product and Process Innovation
Developing Your Unique Corporate Strategy
Communicating Your Unique Corporate Strategy
Implementing Your Unique Corporate Strategy
Measuring Your Unique Corporate Strategy
Adjusting Your Unique Corporate Strategy
What is the job of leadership and how is it distinct from management?
The Special Characteristics of Leadership in an Entrepreneurial Culture
Why would anyone wish to be led by you?
The Concept of Leadership in Different Business Cultures
What is “transformational leadership”?
Identification and Assessment of Risk
The First Decision – Accept or Avoid
Tools and Techniques of Risk Management
Tools and Techniques of Risk Mitigation
Tools and Techniques of Risk Transfer
Innovation vs. Invention
Various Types of Innovation
The Economic Impact of Innovation and its Cost-benefit Analysis
Selecting and Applying the Best Innovation Tools and Techniques
Developing and Sustaining an Innovation Culture
The Critical Difference between Marketing and Branding
The Most Effective Marketing Strategy in an Entrepreneurial Business
Calculating Your Marketing ROI
How to develop and leverage a brand?
Branding Products vs. Companies
Forecasting Demand is the Most Critical Element
Forecasting Options to Improve Your Operating Results
The Different Roles of Forecasting and Budgeting
Budgeting Options and Choosing between Alternatives
The Master Budget Components
How did investors evaluate a proposal?
Financial Structure Options: Start-up / Mezzanine / Second and Third Phase
The Balance of Cash Flow / Debt / Equity Financing
The Different Approaches of Banks, Venture Capital, Private Equity, other
Z-score & other Analysis Tools
How to measure success and potential?
The Need for Alignment between Strategic and Operational Leadership
How to develop best practices in business processes?
6-S Audit and Analysis
World-Class Process Improvement Techniques
The “Kaizen” Concept and its Application Across the Organization
