PARTICIPANTS and admission Criteria
This program is open to all managers at all levels of Iranian organizations, since they are influencers in building functional and even business layer strategies.They also have the most critical responsibility and role in executing them. This program is also open to strategic management experts and consultants.
Participants must meet the following criteria:
- Possess managerial experience in providing strategic plans.
- Be competent enough to understand lectures and texts in English, and take part in discussions in English
- Complete the admission procedure on time.
Tehran, Iran July 27-25, 2018
Participants must meet the following criteria:
- Possess managerial experience in providing strategic plans.
- Be competent enough to understand lectures and texts in English, and take part in discussions in English
- Complete the admission procedure on time.
HEC Montréal
3000 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine
Montreal, Quebec
H3T 2A7, CANADA
Phone: 15143406203+
Nesha Group
3rd Fl., No. 7,
Motlagh Alley, 2nd st.,
Fatemi Ave., Tehran,
1415784554 IRAN
Phone: +982188972455
hecmontreal@neshagroup.ir
www.neshagroup.ir
program overview
Strategic Management is no longer a novel term for Iranian managers and management consultants. Today, every medium to large-sized company in Iran deals with a vast number of documents for strategic planning. Despite this fact, can we really say that Iranian organizations are strategy-driven? Do we see strategies inspiring our people, in the spirit of our organizations? Are we good enough at implementing and executing these strategies?
What are the main barriers we are faced with when it comes to strategic thinking:
- resistance to change;
- leadership difficulties, especially in developing countries which have a changing environment and are more human-based than system-based;
- struggles related to political issues and conflicts of interest.
This program will draw from the the broad insight of a well-known strategic management scholar who has participated in many international programs of HEC Montréal, and has conducted consulting mandates for companies and governments in Canada, the United States and some developing countries in Asia and Africa. He also knows our country very well to light up our understanding of strategic management, especially in the situation of complexity.
This program is divided into four main parts. Each part introduces participants to a critical topic or issue related to strategic management. We shall develop knowledge and skills in formulating a strategy to make a common understanding and then discuss the key issues in implementing it. We will conclude with an important insight into strategy implementation in situations of complexity.
Main topics
Participants are expected to prepare ahead for each seminar by reading the cases used in class.
Here are the main topics which we are going to be discussed in this program:
1.Strategic Thinking as a Managerial Competency
2.Fundamentals: Environment, Resources and Strategy
3.Implementing Strategy
4.Complexity and Strategy Implementation
5.Managing Strategic Change
The discussion of each issue includes a conceptual introduction, and a case situation. Cases from various industries and countries will be used in this program.
Workshop Sessions in Persian
As specialists in international executive programs, we know that adding a component given in the local language helps create a better and more effective learning atmosphere for all participants; hence these workshops in Persian.
We would have a workshop session at each day of the seminar. Participants will be in small groups and discussions and exercises will be led by an Iranian coach in Persian.
Taïeb Hafsi is a full-time Professor of strategic management at HEC Montréal. He is holder of the “Strategy and Society Chair of Management,”.
Before joining HEC Montréal, Mr. Hafsi was professor at McGill and ESSEC Business School in Paris. He holds a chemical engineering degree, an M.Sc. in Management from the Sloan School of management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
In his research, he focuses mostly on issues related to managing complex organizations, such as large diversified firms, geographically dispersed organizations, not-for-profit organizations, state-owned firms and governments. He wrote more than a hundred academic papers on these subjects and 28 books and monographs. He has been awarded several prizes notably the Pierre Laurin Research Award, the 2000 Outstanding Teacher Award (a once in a career recognition award), and three best article awards in the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences and in Public Administration Review.
He is a research fellow of the think tank Economic Research Forum for North Africa and the Middle East as well as a member of numerous academic associations including the Academy of Management and the Canadian Administrative Sciences Association. He is also founder of the Strategic Management Society and contributed to the International Strategic Management Association.
“Mohammad Jameei Moghaddam” holds Ph.D. in Management, and he has a dual academic-managerial career since 2007. Having invaluable experiences in teaching management courses and workshops in marketing, strategy, and finance, he has done many business researches for Iranian organizations. Nowadays, he is Managing Director and Member of the Board at “Salim” Investment Company.