Boot Camp Schedule 

Boot Camps include experienced certified instruction, professional courseware, corresponding  practice exams, all certification exam vouchers (extra available).  Exclusive attention and open lab time.  Pass guarantee.  Fine catered breakfast and lunch daily, refreshments and snacks.  Quality travel and lodging arranged, if needed.

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This course offers the core curriculum of university level graduate business programs and includes targeted lectures and illuminating case studies. You will be introduced to the principles around which strategic business decisions revolve. You'll learn the major concepts and be introduced to the big picture of how business competencies fit together into a 360 degree view of decision criteria.

Further, you'll learn the tools and background needed by those who want to develop a more forward-looking approach to management decision making and you'll discover the skills sets needed to develop comprehensive strategies.

What You'll Learn

Hands-On Exercises

• Decision analysis using business case scenarios

• Stakeholder analysis and its relationship to ethical choices

• Interpreting financial statements

• Establishing managerial controls using key performance indicators

• Developing and interpreting marketing plans

• Analyzing the impact of technical innovations on competitive strategy
  Analyzing competitive strategies and sustainability of case study businesses

Course Outline

1. Thinking Ahead

• What is strategic thinking and when should it be employed?

• What are the considerations necessary for strategic planning?

• What are the skill sets that must be included when thinking ahead?

2. Decision Making and Critical Thinking

3. Legal Considerations

• Legal basics

• Understanding business structures

4. Ethics

• Why ethics?

• Schools of thought

• Stakeholder analysis and decisions made on their behalf

5. Finance and Accounting

• Basic accounting concepts and their relevance to the workplace

• The good the bad and the ugly of financial statements

• Measuring performance using financial ratios

• Key performance indicators and their role in management accounting

6. Markets and Marketing

• Marketing fundamentals - The 4 P's

• Developing marketing strategies

• Know your channel partners

7. Technology

• Overview of information technology (IT) and its changing role in business

• What is changing and what is not?

• The impact of IT innovation on competitive strategy

8. Economics

• Introduction to macro and micro economics

• Market structures

• Commonly used terminology

9. Management Principles - Organizational Behavior

• Delegate or suffocate (Delegating for fun and profit)

• Key principles of leadership

• How to motivate and direct others

10. Competitive Strategy

• Introduction to strategy theories

• Competitive analysis and sustainability

• Risk management as an ongoing process

11. Developing a Business Case

• The role of business cases in management decisions

• Key ingredients for effective business case preparation

• How to structure and present a business case