General Management Program
General Management Programme has been designed to provide an accelerated journey of personal and professional growth by focusing on leadership skills, business acumen and a global perspective.
Program Overview
Disruptive innovations, emerging digital technologies and global competition call for managers with an adaptive mindset and evolving competencies. Businesses need leaders who can contribute beyond their field of functional expertise. General Management Programme on IIMBx (GMPx) – Batch 2, has been designed to provide an accelerated journey of personal and professional growth by focusing on leadership skills, business acumen and a global perspective. GMPx2 is a part-time certificate programme designed to provide the skills, knowledge and global perspectives required to be proficient in today’s corporate world. The programme is based on the highly successful EGMP which is in its 53rd edition and IIMBx, the Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) of IIMB’s Digital Learning centre.(IIMB ranked 3rd in MOOC performance among B Schools globally).
Programme Objective
- Introduce contemporary business models and practices to the participants
- Develop competence in the disciplines and skills associated with general management
- Provide guidance to think through business strategies with a global perspective
Key Benefits & Takeaways
- Competence to move to general management roles
- Develop and implement business strategies with a global perspective
- Leadership skills to manage people for results
- Knowledge of emerging digital skills
- Knowledge of emerging contemporary business models
Target Audience
- Functional heads, managers and technologists aiming to move on to general management responsibilities as business heads/COOs/CEOs
- Professionals seeking to re-vitalize their careers by broadening their knowledge of business
- Participants have at least 5-10 years of managerial experience
Target Audience
The programme fee is AED 37,500 (including VAT) per participant.
The fees include learning material, and food and snacks on the residency days in Dubai.
Participant need to budget for two flights to IIM Bangalore for the 6-day residencies and the boarding and lodging on campus (estimated at AED 3500) .
Important Dates: Registration closure – May 15, 2020 by 5.00 pm
Programme Design
Today’s business environment is complex and fast changing. Companies are reinventing their business models to cope with or leverage disruptive technologies. Making sense of these rapid changes is becoming critical for gaining a competitive advantage.
The programme is structured around the following building blocks and will delivered in 5 phases :
Business Environment, Functional Knowledge
Strategic Perspective, Individual and Organizational Competencies Electives
Phase – 1 Business Environment
The Economic environment
Disruptive technologies
Phase – 2 Functional Knowledge
Financial acumen
Branding
Operational excellence
Business analytics
Phase – 3 Strategic Perspective
Corporate Strategy & Innovation
Technology driven business models
Digitalization
Phase – 3 Individual and Organizational Competencies
Organization Structures and Processes
Leadership
Resource Optimization
Entrepreneurship
Phase – 5 Electives
Strategy and Leadership
Marketing and Analytics
Corporate Governance
Course Details
Venue : IIM Bangalore and Dubai
Last date for registration : 15 May, 20
Start Date : 05 Jun, 20
End Date : 09 Jan, 21
Fee(excluding GST) :
Rs. 7,50,000
How to Apply
Log on to below link for registration
https://smartglobalme.com/general-management-apply-now-form/
Dr. Manoj Nakra
Tel: +971-50-5517895
Email: manoj@smartglobalme.com
Registration closure – May 15, 2020 by 5.00 pm
Programme Duration & Delivery
Programme Duration : 24 days
Programme Delivery : The programme will be delivered in Dubai and IIM Bangalore campus
Phase 1
Location: Dubai
Duration: 2 days
Date: Jun 5th and Jun 6th 2020 & Aug 21st and 22nd 2020
Location: Online
Duration: 7 weeks
Date: Jun 5th and Jun 6th 2020
Location: IIM Bangalore
Duration: 6 days
Date: Jul 27th to Aug 1st 2020
Phase 2
Location: Dubai
Duration: 2 days
Date: Sep 11th and 12th 2020
Phase 3
Location: Dubai
Duration: 2 days
Date: Oct 2nd and 3rd 2020 & Oct 23rd and 24th 2020
Phase 4
Location: Dubai
Duration: 2 days
Date: Nov 13th and 14th 2020
Phase 5
Location: Online
Duration: 7 weeks
Date: Oct 2nd and 3rd 2020 & Oct 23rd and 24th 2020
Location: IIM Bangalore
Duration: 6 days
Date: Jan 4th to 9th 2021
Program Directors

Professor. G Shainesh
Professor G Shainesh has over two decades of research and teaching experience in India and abroad.
He has conducted research and teaching assignments at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), Audencia Nantes and IESEG (France), Vienna University and MCI Innsbruck (Austria), Bocconi University (Milan), Curtin University of Technology (Perth) and the American University of Armenia (Yerevan).
His research and teaching focus on CRM, Services Marketing and Service Innovations. At IIMB, Shainesh has served as Dean – Administration (2014-17), Chair – EPGP (2013-14) and Chair – Student Exchange Programme (2006-09).
https://www.iimb.ac.in/profile/91

Professor P. D. Jose
Dr. Jose is a Professor in the Strategy Area. Prior to joining IIMB, he was a member of the faculty at the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad. Professor Jose teaches core courses on strategy and electives on Corporate Environmental Management, Sustainable Enterprises and Understanding Corporate Failures. He has been a visiting faculty at Cardiff Business School, IIM Kozhikode, and Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg. Professor Jose was a Fulbright Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, and Kenan-Flagler Business School, North Carolina during 1999-2000. He also visited the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, as a research scholar on a UNDP/GoI fellowship. He was also an ESRC Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS) at Cardiff University during 2005-06, and again in 2008.
https://www.iimb.ac.in/user/81/p-d-jose

Professor Vasanthi Srinivasan
Professor Srinivasan is a Professor in the Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Area.
At IIM Bangalore, she teaches the core course on Managing People and Performance in Organizations and also offers an elective in Human Resource Management. She has designed and delivered sessions on leadership development and career management on Executive Education programmes. She was an Indian Council for Cultural Relations Chair Professor for Corporate responsibility at the HHL Graduate School of Management Leipzig, Germany for the period 2012-13 on deputation. She was also a British Council Visiting Scholar at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at the Nottingham University Business School.
https://www.iimb.ac.in/user/145/vasanthi-srinivasan
Get In Touch
+91 80 2699 3895
Location
IIMBx,
Indian Institute of Management,
Bannerghatta Main Rd,
Bilekahalli,
Bengaluru,
Karnataka – 560076
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