IIM CALCUTTA STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

• Develop a strategic thinking mode –understanding how power is wielded and negotiated in multiple contexts, especially amidst great ‘complexity’ and institutional transformations.
• Understand strategic landscapes of industries, including the interface with law and regulation, and institutional variation across nations.
• Understand sustainability, resource conflicts and its relation to strategy.
• Manage multi-stakeholder interests and institutional frameworks thereof, especially of work-force/skill-holders and communities with various resource rights.

• Identify the strategic significance of few contemporary developments such as outsourced models of business, vigorous use of informatics, delayering of organizations, modularization of product systems and so on.
• Strategize in a network mode – competition and cooperation; especially appreciating role of shared assets.
• Understand the economics of strategy moves, especially under decreasing and increasing returns.

This programme is aimed at managers in organizations who are currently in roles that require them to handle strategic issues, or managers who are looking to move into such roles. Senior and middle level managers and profit centre heads would find the programme particularly useful. Working professionals wishing to participate in the programme need to have a minimum experience of 7 years. Managers with longer and broader experience would benefit more from the programme.

Working executives who are graduates (10+2+3 or equivalent) in any discipline with 50% marks, with an experience profile of at least 7 years after graduation are eligible. Applicants with desired work experience who do not have 50% marks in graduation but 50% or more in post-graduation are also eligible.

The programme will use multiple modes of interactive delivery. Lectures and readings of concept pieces would be linked to discussion of business cases (and business histories), to ground theories/concepts in practice. The programme will also use extensively the widely distributed knowledge pieces within the web (in the public domain) through use of links, thematic sites to aid considerable self exploration by motivated senior managers and business leaders. Each platform interaction would require pre-reading and preparation in group-based modes by the participants. The course will also have a series of practitioner-interaction sessions.

TThe programme will be delivered through classes held at designated VCNow Centres across India or through Direct to Device (D2D) as an option to participants, once a week. Participants need to select the delivery mode during the application submission. In addition, there will be a total of 10 days of workshops at IIM Calcutta campus during the course of the programme, subject to Govt Guidelines around the pandemic. Attendance will be mandatory for certification. In case the campus sessions are not held due to the pandemic situation, the same would be delivered through online mode as per schedule decided by IIM Calcutta.

Evaluation in this programme would be based on examination at end of the course and a project that the participants would undertake, either singly or in groups as per decision of the faculty.