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Executive Masterclasses
Masterclasses are highly interactive sessions led by an industry thought leader. The goal of these sessions is for participants to gain new insights into their specific, real-world business challenges, giving them a set of recommendations upon which to act. They will be limited to 20 senior executive business leaders.Fees
The fee to attend an Executive Masterclass is €800 (including VAT). Each Masterclass is four hours long.
Available Masterclasses
Adopting a Culture of Innovation - Session Cancelled
Geoffrey Moore, TCG Advisors, Venture Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
As the world continues to sort out the current financial mess, it is clear that simply taking a "business as usual" approach won't do – the problems are too large and the resources too limited. Fortunately, this is where free market economies shine. It is opportunity at its finest – real needs driving cautious investments and demanding demonstrable returns.
Drawing on his experience as a venture capitalist and a consultant to FORTUNE 500® high-tech corporations, Moore will outline a framework for focusing innovation investments on outcomes appropriate to your organisation, discuss how optimisation efforts can use existing budgets and head count to support these investments, and present case examples of companies using these techniques to transform themselves.
Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results
Thomas H. Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor of IT and Management, Babson College
Any organization or manager can benefit from systematic examination of decision making, and analytics is one of the most powerful decision tools. This Masterclass will describe how any organization can improve its analytical capabilities, resulting in better decision making and a competitive advantage. Davenport will present a process for systematically improving decision making using analytics and other common interventions, and translating this process into action to create better business results.
Among the topics to be addressed are:
- Making more analytical decisions and their importance.
- Building analytical capability through five DELTA factors.
- Embedding analytics into key business processes.
- Improving decision processes and outcomes with a four-step approach.
- Systematically reviewing decisions, errors and analytical capabilities.
The Essence of Leadership: Knowing
Thornton May, Futurist, Executive Director and Dean of the IT Leadership Academy
Wherever deeper-thinking observers of the world today assemble, the issue du jour is leadership. The empirical evidence is unambiguous: Leadership is learnable – knowing is the essence of modern leadership. Analytical leaders need to understand the situation in which they find themselves and lead accordingly.
This very interactive session will explore the evolving landscape of business analytics by collaboratively creating a framework for evaluating where an enterprise currently stands in its ability to compete on analytics.
The class will then examine analytical leadership through historical case studies of pioneering leaders and real-time experiences of the participants.
Participants will be asked evaluate and refine their five "knowledges": self-knowledge, other knowledge, environmental knowledge, movement knowledge and value knowledge.