Executive Programs Launches New Program Portfolio For 2003
Executive Programs Launches New Program Portfolio For 2003
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA - Corporate ethics. Trust in numbers. Flagging growth. Talent shortage. These are key challenges facing executive education at the beginning of the new millennium. To address these needs, the Penn State Executive Programs has announced fourteen new offerings and an updated program portfolio for 2003.
"Investing in managerial development is the wisest business decision an employer can make today, "says Christopher von Schirach- Szmigiel, Associate Dean for Executive Education. "Organizations who do not grow their talent cannot adequately compete in today's turbulent market places. This is a key value driver in successful organizations today."
Penn State Executive Programs are delivered in partnership with the internationally recognized Smeal College of Business and Penn State's Colleges of Engineering, Earth and Mineral Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Education, Communications, and the School of Information Sciences and Technology as well as with other leading organizations beyond the university.
Program highlights include:
Intangible Assets Series includes programs that address the hidden drivers in value creation and long-term productivity. The series focus is on improving brand equity, customer relations, management systems, the ability to innovate, and talent development for succession planning.
Board Development Series develops competencies for the most effective board performance and conformance for public and family-owned companies, non-profit and co-operative organizations.
Building Business Models and Strategies for World-Class Results is a unique offering designed as a closed workshop for single management teams of corporations, division, and business units looking to completely revise their business models and strategies for innovativeness and competitive positioning.
New Executive "Hot Topic" Workshops look at global events, technological advances, and breakthrough research in best business practices that impact all levels of responsibility. The workshops are designed to enable executives to quickly respond to the speed of change by focusing on current issues.
Financial Statement Literacy: Assuring Confidence in Numbers is a program for general and functional managers who must understand the financial impact of their operating decisions on the short- and long-term financial performance of the company.
New Concepts & Tools in Finance and the New Roles of CFOs helps senior finance executives develop, implement and evaluate the latest strategies that enhance corporate value.
Supply Chain Management for the Construction Industry provides processes, tools and tangible solutions for substantial costs reduction and improved quality of supply chain operations. Top executives and senior managers in construction and related industries will assemble to find practical solutions to their collective challenges.
Manufacturing Operations Efficiency & Effectiveness answers the call of senior managers in manufacturing and engineering to refine operational systems to reduce costs, increase productivity, shorten delivery time, and continually improve quality.
Designing & Leading Competitive Supply Chains and Managing Effective Supply Chains are programs for logistics and supply-side executives to develop and improve supply chain systems that provide greater speed, flexibility and competitive differentiation.
Finally, Penn State Executive Programs will offer its core General Management Series: Developing Managerial Effectiveness: A Program for Emerging Leaders, Leading with Impact: Linking People, Strategy, Results and the Executive Management Program: Strategies for Incumbent Executives . In a 3-step process, each program develops specific competencies required for executives as they progress through their career life cycle.
The Penn State Executive Programs model is to work closely with leading colleges and schools, professional organizations, executive advisory boards, and industry consultants to create programs that address today's and tomorrow's executive education needs. Participants are expected to bring priority issues to the program, which form a basis for discussion, learning, and ultimately foundations for solutions to their organizational challenges.
For more information about the full-line of management development products and services, please call (800) 311-6364 or visit their Web site at http://www.smeal.psu.edu/psep .
Claudia Hughes of Penn State Executive Programs can be reached at 814-865-3435 or chl2@psu.edu .
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REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
