NUS Extension

Professional & Management




3 Days


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Intake 01
26 - 28 Aug 09

Intake 02
28 - 30 Oct 09





S$900 (Inclusive of GST)


NUS Extension (#12-01 Park Mall)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mastering The Art of Globalisation

Synopsis

Mastering The Art of Globalisation is a three-day workshop that addresses the operational and execution issues enterprises face when looking internationally for new opportunities while overcoming challenges of globalisation.

Attend Mastering The Art of Globalisation to develop a master action plan for growing, competing, and operating globally. You'll get the specific globalisation tools your company needs. This workshop is applicable to companies expanding globally for competitive advantages. Via the use of an integrated global business systems approach , you will learn how to connect your global strategy to local execution.

Using a systematic step-by-step methodology which is based on effective principles for globalisation, this workshop will share with you on how to create a technical, organisational, and behavioral action plan framework to globalise your sourcing, manufacturing, sales, distribution, customer service functions, and research and development.

]In this workshop, you will also learn how to minimise the fundamental economic, financial, execution, political, intellectual property, and integration risks your company or business unit faces on a global basis.]


Course Outline

Day One : Building The Foundations

Building and Executing Your Global Business Strategy

    • Adapting to a global business environment: the rapid pace of globalisation, a new executive mindset, emerging capital markets, and the 'globalisation of knowledge'
    • Examining the economic and operational characteristics of a global enterprise
    • Reviewing the pros and cons of various legal structures for global operations

Organisational, Behavioral, and Performance Measurement Changes for the Global Company

    • Changing leadership requirements to move from a domestic thinking organisation to a global acting business
    • Reorganising functions to support global business objectives 'the country management' structure
    • Creating the framework to transform sales, distribution, and logistics functions to succeed in the global marketplace
    • Developing the framework and metrics to transform the manufacturing, supply chain, and purchasing functions to succeed in the global marketplace
    • Managing the risks experienced in transforming domestic centric organisations to the realities of the global marketplace

Creating Your Global Research and Development Strategy

    • Integrating foreign R&D with your domestic business
    • Executing basic design for global products, including intellectual property considerations
    • Looking for global R&D talent and finding superior local technical capabilities


Day Two : Enhancing Capabilities

Sourcing Globally

    • Understanding global supply economic considerations
    • Identifying key issues and risks of sourcing internationally
    • Managing foreign supply quality
    • Finding foreign technical superiority in the supplier base
    • Managing intellectual property with global suppliers
    • Managing global supplier relationships
    • Integrating global suppliers with your domestic operations

Manufacturing Globally

    • Understanding the economics of global manufacturing
    • Managing production quality in global factories
    • Finding the best technology to use in foreign operations
    • Managing the operational issues and risks inherent in a global factory
    • Integrating global factories with your domestic business

Selling and Distributing Globally

    • Identifying real market expectations in the global marketplace
    • Understanding the economic considerations of global distribution and logistics
    • Targeting global demand opportunities
    • Managing currencies in demand and supply directions
    • Developing customers in different countries
    • Managing international sales, distribution, and logistics risks
    • Integrating global selling, distribution, and logistics with your domestic enterprise

Serving and Servicing Globally

    • Understanding the economic considerations of global customer support
    • Supporting global customers
    • Defining value in the eyes of the global customer
    • Designing support services for local markets
    • Integrating global service with your domestic business

Day Three : Achieving Sustainability

Profitably Growing Your Global Business

    • Understanding the economics of value-creation in global business
    • Building a global expansion strategy � structural method vs value creation method
    • Determining profitability of the global enterprise and true global value enhancements
    • Overcoming profitability limitations in a global business
    • Choosing the right strategies for growing globally: evolving organically vs expanding through acquisition
    • Targeting acquisitions to provide global, strategic, and economic value

Understanding Financial Imperatives for Operating Globally

    • Using more robust, global centric accounting processes and developing global centric performance metrics
    • Defining operating drivers of global purchase spend and global sales revenues
    • Incorporating the key economic drivers of global sales growth
    • Implementing five drivers of global operations cost reductions into your business
    • Understanding the key economic drivers of captive global factories and suppliers
    • Converting global cost analysis from incremental thinking to a total cost approach
    • Addressing the eight key factors when constructing a total cost analysis of a global supplier

Developing Management Reporting and Information Systems Requirements for the Global Enterprise

    • Establishing information system requirements and superior architectures for operating across the globe
    • Determining the necessary changes to cost accounting systems
    • Using advanced metrics for global supply chain and production functions
    • Measuring sourced quality proactively
    • Developing new financial and managerial P&L's for the global business


Who Should Attend

This three-day interactive workshop will help participants address the following key questions :

    • How does my company implement its global business strategy?
    • How can we improve our global supply chain management?
    • How do we manage a global labor force?
    • How do we compete in foreign markets?
    • How do we find, hire, and acquire technical and professional talent internationally?
    • How do we access foreign capital and what are the financial implications?
    • How do we manage and protect our intellectual property investment?
    • How do we manage our working capital in a business operating and selling globally?

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