Mini-MBA:
Certification in Business Management

• Focus on the process of strategic thinking and planning
• Target best practice leadership efforts for maximizing performance

• Strategies and techniques to guide teams and organizations through change
• John Kotter’s 8-step process for leading change

• Business Process Management know-how
• The dynamics of supply chain quality

Gain a better understanding of the external economic environment in which firms operate by:

•  Analyzing the behavior of economic growth, inflation, and the job market
•  Examining the short-run and long-run operation of the economy

This module has been approved for 5 recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI).

• Gain a practical understanding of your role in strategy development and execution, regardless of where you fit on the organization chart
• Learn how to identify core competencies and use them to develop creative ideas for future strategies
• Maximize your personal contribution to organizational success

This module has been approved for 5 recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI).

• An examination of the short, long and complete cash cycle of the organization
• Effectively utilizing the balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows to evaluate the organization’s historical performance and as forecasting tools

Data, big and small, surrounds us at every point and from every perspective. It can open new, powerful insights on virtually everything. What can it inform you and your business opportunities? This interactive program details the five key pillars of big data analytics: context, data, methods, technologies, and resources along with their orchestration in technical architectures and formal data science processes to successfully uncover actionable answers found in multiple large data sets and data streams. Mastering big data offers a key (and growing) business advantage; A fast-paced combination of lectures, discussions, and exercises gets you started.

When you have completed the program, you will be able to:

• Identify the opportunities and challenges for big data analytics • Identify key analytics and their purpose.
• Identify key technologies and their role in big data analytics
• Form big data architectures focused on specific opportunities that tradeoff time and cost
• Detail key process steps to properly obtain, prepare, and analyze big data

Supply chain management is the integrated management of the business processes and flows of services, physical goods and information from the producers of basic inputs to the final consumer’s use and disposal of products. This module will explore practical concepts, approaches and tools that can be immediately applied to better understand, analyze and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of (service and manufacturing) organizations’ supply chains. The learning objectives of the module are:

• To discuss the basic workings of current (service and physical goods) global supply chains, including outsourcing decisions
• To discuss best practices and improvement opportunities to achieve win-win relationships within supply chains
• To enable participants to analyze and contribute with the improvement of the efficiency and effectiveness of the supply chains with which they are involved

Thinking influences everything you do, or want, or feel. But all thinking is not created equal. There is good thinking and not so good thinking. In this course you will be required to think, analyze, question, and discuss issues affecting day-to-day and business decisions in this complex world. The course is designed to challenge how you think and how you recognize logical arguments, their underlying assumptions and their limitations.

Objectives: When you complete this course you should be able to:

• Describe critical thinking
• Explain why critical thinking is essential in mastering content and effective day-to-day and business problem solving
• Identify biases that undermine thinking and problem formation
• Discuss the elements of reasoning in problem situations
• Evaluate the quality of your thinking
• Demonstrate your critical thinking through argumentation, questioning and reflection
• Apply critical thinking to day-to-day and business settings

Learn how to unleash your leadership potential.

This module has been approved for 2.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI).

This course will include:

• The History of Ethics and Social Responsibility
• The Contemporary Role and Importance of Ethics in Business
• Recognizing Ethical Challenges specific to the Industry
• Raising Awareness to Ethical Behavior in Business l Case Studies
• The Nature of Social Responsibility
• Social Responsibility Challenges

Upon completing this seminar, attendees will be able to:

• Define business ethics and articulate its operation and value in their corporation
• Detect some of the ethical issues that may arise in business
• Specify how businesses and specifically their business can promote ethical behavior
• Define social responsibility and explain its relevance to business
• Discuss an organization’s social responsibilities to owners, employees, vendors, consumers, the environment, and the community
• Evaluate the ethics of specific business decisions