Advanced Management Programme

The environment confronting business leaders today is unprecedented and volatile. The theories and models that guided decision making in the past no longer seem to provide leaders with all the answers. Increasingly, successful leaders rely on their own judgment to make decisions. 

The Advanced Management Programme casts a spotlight on the process of judgement and demonstrates that exercising judgement is neither art nor science, but a craft that can be honed with practice, reflection, feedback and coaching. The Advanced Management Programme represents an unparalleled opportunity for senior leaders to gain insights into the key processes that define their judgement.

The Advanced Management Programme is a complete general management programme – meaning it helps senior leaders to address all aspects of leadership. The programme complements functional understanding with a holistic approach that helps you build judgement in your specific contexts. Our innovative methods offer you two unique opportunities – to reflect actively on the quality of your own judgment; and to use proprietary frameworks to define and implement an agenda to enhance performance – both yours and your organisation’s.

Key Benefits

• Gain insights that challenge your assumptions
• Actionable knowledge -  develop deeper insight into information you often already possess
• Develop greater confidence - in your knowledge by testing your assumptions and making them more robust

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The objective of the Advanced Management Programme is to create a reflective process that offers participants insight into the way in which they exercise judgment. The programme consists of four stages that follow the logic of strategy implementation. This is brought to life by the “red thread” of a strategy implementation challenge that participants bring to the programme.

• Mega-trends: helps leaders explore the opportunities and constraints determined by their external environments
• Stakeholders: defines the objective functions that they need to pursue. These stakeholders include traditional stakeholders such as shareholders, and increasingly vocal stakeholders such as knowledge workers and society at large
• Organisational structures and processes: represent the levers that leaders can use to bring about the shifts in direction they seek
• People: Leaders as both “actors in the organisational drama”, and the key targets of change. This theme invites participants to reflect upon their own identities, motivations and behaviours in order to develop insight into the psychological and sociological bases for organisational identities.

These explorations occur in classrooms, forests, concert halls, gymnasiums and other stages that enable participants to explore the leadership metaphor.

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As the name implies, the Advanced Management Programme attracts those who have attained the very highest standards of business performance: 

• Senior executives such as CEOs, COOs, CFOs and heads of product divisions, geographical regions or other major business units within the private or public sectors
• An average of twelve years’ management experience, with at least five years in a general management position with clear cross-functional and P&L responsibility

Senior executives without current managerial responsibilities and business consultants with senior level client experience are invited to discuss their candidacy with the programme advisor.

Classes typically consist of participants drawn from +30 nationalities. It is this diversity which creates the unique environment at INSEAD, and enriches participants’ learning experience.

From participants to alumni

As well as becoming part of your own class community, participants leave the Advanced Management Programme as a full member of the INSEAD alumni community. Only graduates of our world-famous MBA, Executive MBA and PhD programmes, together with selected former Executive Education participants, are eligible for this status. This elite worldwide network consists of over 39,200 alumni in around 160 countries, many with very active National Alumni Associations. Alumni benefit from lifelong networking and professional development opportunities, including regional events, refresher programmes and reduced rates for all Executive Education.
 

Naaman Atallah CEO, Formerly Executive Director, Business Development, Emaar Properties PJSC “I likened my experience to an intellectual roller  coaster: it shakes your mind, twists it, stretches it, taking you to a new frontier.”

Part of the management team of Emaar, responsible for major construction projects in the Middle East including Burj Dubai, (today, the world's tallest building) Naaman Atallah AMP '07, is now leading a USD 25 billion joint venture between Emaar Properties and Tatweer to develop more than 70 million square feet in Bawadi, Dubai into retail and commercial space, a theme park, nine hotels and over 20,000 residences. Emaar Properties is a global property developer and Bawadi is the largest hospitality and leisure development in the region.

Joining Emaar Properties in October 2004 as Senior Director, Sales, Naaman became Executive Director, Sales and Marketing in 2006 then Executive Director, Business Development in April 2007, before his appointment to CEO of the Emaar Bawadi Joint Venture in January 2008.

In less than four years of joining the company, Naaman completely restructured its sales and marketing teams; achieved a record-breaking first quarter revenue in 2007 of USD 892 million, a 95% increase from the first quarter of 2006; established the Emaar Best Practice Processes Manual for marketing; and led the team which implemented a new strategic branding, taking Emaar beyond property development.

Only ten years after the company's founding in 1997, Emaar has handed over thousands of homes in its home-market, Dubai, while integrating schools, parks, retail centres, golf courses and equestrian and marina areas within master-planned communities. Emaar is listed on the Dubai Financial Market and is part of the Dow Jones Arabia Titans Index. The company's shareholders include the Government of Dubai and Emaar is powered by its Vision 2010 to become one of the most valuable companies in the world by the turn of the decade. Read on

Marvin Romanow Executive Vice President & CFO, Nexen Inc.   “There wasn't a single discussion or class which wasn't relevant to the challenges we face.”

Marvin Romanow AMP '07, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Nexen Inc., is responsible for providing effective financial leadership for the company to grow value responsibly, in a profitable and sustainable manner.
Nexen Inc. is one of Canada's largest global energy companies. With a work force of 3,500, the company is strategically positioned with operations in the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the Middle East, offshore West Africa, and the Canadian Athabasca oil sands. Nexen's core activities are developing, producing and marketing crude oil and natural gas and power.

In 2006, Nexen invested in their first renewable energy initiative, a wind farm in southern Alberta, Canada. At full capacity, it can produce enough green energy to power approximately 25,000 homes. In 2008, Nexen was named for the sixth time since the survey began in 2000, as one of the 50 best employers in Canada by Hewitt Associates and The Globe and Mail.

Marvin joined Nexen through their acquisition of Wascana Energy Inc. in 1997, bringing with him 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Read more

Ian Fletcher AMP'05 was appointed CEO & Comptroller General for the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO), formerly the Patent Office, in April 2007.
The IPO is the official government body responsible for granting intellectual property rights in the UK: for patents, designs, trade marks and the copyright framework. It is also an executive agency of the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), responsible for the role of intellectual property rights in supporting innovation.

As CEO & Comptroller General, Ian is the government's principal civil service policy advisor on all aspects of intellectual property, from international negotiations to enforcement issues.

Ian is also responsible for the management of the IPO, a government agency which employs 1,000 people. Their main activities are the granting of patents and trademarks, management of designs, management of the copyright framework, and running the patent, trade marks and copyright tribunals, which are a sort of specialist 'court of first instance' for their areas. We asked Ian to tell us about the importance of protecting intellectual property, his views on globalisation and innovation, and how having taken the Advanced Management Programme (AMP) at INSEAD has influenced his management style and career. Read on 

After graduating from the AMP at INSEAD in 2001, Ravi Fernando, Director, Corporate Branding & Strategic CSR at MAS Holdings Ltd., the largest supplier of intimate apparel, sports and leisure ware in Sri Lanka, launched 'Women Go Beyond', an internal programme to 'empower women to reach their full potential' for the 80% female employees of their total workforce of 43,000.

'Women Go Beyond' is based on 20 years of best labour practices and aims to inspire women in their career advancement, encourage their talents and offer help in the balance of their professional and personal lives. In 2006, INSEAD published a case study 'MAS Holdings: Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility in the Apparel Industry', which was written by Noshua Watson, current INSEAD PhD student, under the supervision of Emeritus Professor Jonathan Story.

The MAS Women Go Beyond programme laid the foundation for the Sri Lanka apparel 'Ethical Branding Campaign' which was recommended by Ravi to the Joint Apparel Association Forum (JAAF) in July, 2005. In August, 2006, the JAAF launched the 'Garments without Guilt Campaign'.

In September, 2007, Ravi was recognised for his work on ethical branding at the World Strategy Summit, where he received the 'Global Strategy Leadership Award'. The World Strategy Summit takes place every two years and is the single largest platform that aims to bring together strategists; thinkers, academics and futurists. At this year's Summit, INSEAD Professor Renée Mauborgne was the 'Chief Guest', presenting the awards. Read on

Great minds don’t think alike

INSEAD's professors represent many cultures, disciplines, and perspectives. Comprised of acknowledged world experts in their fields, the programme faculty are intimately connected to the business world and have a uniquely practical approach blended with their theoretical grounding.

	Narayan Pant Programme Director Professor of Management Practice Narayan teaches in the Strategy area at INSEAD. His areas of teaching interest include, strategy formulation and implementation, with a focus on comparative healthcare systems, regional contingencies in strategy design, and strategic anticipation - from forecasting to scenario analysis. Narayan has conducted courses in these areas for Directors and senior executives of private and public-sector firms, PhD students, MBAs and undergraduates. Read more...
	Ian Woodward Programme Director Affiliate Professor of Organisational Behaviour Ian C. Woodward specializes in Leadership and Communication. He lectures in a range of INSEAD programmes including the Advanced Management Programme. He is Co-Program Director for the INSEAD Master of Finance degree with the Macquarie Group. Read more...
	Jose-Luis Alvarez Adjunct Professor of Organisational Behaviour		Yakov Bart Assistant Professor of Marketing
	Stewart Black Professor of Management Practice Associate Dean, Executive Development Programs - INSEAD The Americas		Antonio Fatas Professor of Economics The Portuguese Council Chaired Professor of European Studies
	Anil Gaba Professor of Decision Sciences The Orpar Chaired Professor of Risk Management Academic Director, Center for Decision Making and Risk Analysis		Pierre Hillion Professor of Finance The de Picciotto Chaired Professor of Alternative Investments Chair, Finance Area
	Ludo Van der Heyden Professor of Technology and Operations Management The Mubadala Chaired Professor in Corporate Governance and Strategy Academic Director, INSEAD Corporate Governance Initiative		Dipak C. Jain Professor of Marketing The INSEAD Chaired Professor of Marketing Dean of INSEAD
	Massimo Massa Professor of Finance The Rothschild Chaired Professor of Banking Co-Director of the Hoffmann Research Fund		Erin Meyer Adjunct Professor of Organisational

The programme experience builds upon both business faculty and specialist facilitators – in experiential learning, coaching, wellness and group dynamics – thereby creating an experience that is real, relevant and full of actionable insights.

Dates & Fees

The optional one week residential programme, open to past participants of the programme, will take place in Singapore from 7 - 11 May 2012. The tuition fee for the optional follow up session is €5,000.

From 2012 we will run one session each year in Asia on our Singapore campus. The first intake will take place in March 2012.

Acceptance to the Advanced Management programme is not automatic but subject to the review of the admissions committee who carefully evaluate all applications, often calling participants, to ensure that the programme will meet their objectives.

It is imperative to apply early to this programme because the pre-programme work begins six weeks before participants arrive on campus.

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For full details on how to apply, accommodation, and cancellation conditions please visit the Practical Information page

* Fee subject to change. For programmes delivered in France, VAT (19.6%) to be added for companies based in France, or for European companies where no VAT number is supplied. For programmes delivered in Singapore, GST (7%) to be added for Singapore-registered companies.