Entrepreneurship & Innovation Certificate Agenda
The program includes an analysis of your own entrepreneurial capacities, the importance of small business, innovation and enterprise to the global economy, applied benchmarking of small business performance using diagnostic assessments, as well as the process of new product development and commercialization via interactive workshops. The fundamentals of accounting, marketing, entrepreneurship and innovation, and the operations of small business and technology commercialization are also covered. This certificate is a standalone qualification that considered as a post graduate studies with a credit hours from CPD standard office – UK and you can also take each level separately based on a pre and post assessment
Level One “Fundamentals of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 6 Days 30 Hrs.
| Day 1 |
- Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- The Challenge of Entrepreneurship
- How the entrepreneurship journey begins
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| Day 2 |
- Opportunity/ Market Analysis
- Business Modelling
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| Day 3 |
- New product & service development
- Forms of ownership for small business
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| Day 4 |
Launching the Business |
| Day 5 |
Financing your project |
| Day 6 |
Putting business plan to work |
Level 2 “Entrepreneurship Finance & Operation management” In depth learning and practice is considered the core of this level, allowing adequate space for deeper understanding and practice to develop and enhance the participants agility and readiness for taking their ideas further into real startup 20 Sessions 100 Hrs.
| Innovation (2 Days) |
- What do we mean by innovative thinking
- The 5 essential discovery skills
- The DNA of the world’s most innovative companies
- Why Marketing should drive innovation
- Disruption & the innovation deficit
- Disrupt the way you innovate
- Disruption in practice
- Disruptive paths to innovation
- Disruptive brand building
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| Entrepreneurial Finance (2 Days) |
- Introduction to Entrepreneurial Finance
- Organizing and Financing a New Venture
- The Financial Environment and Small Businesses
- Types and Costs of Financial Capital
- Financial Planning: Short term & Long term
- Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements
- Financial Planning and Forecasting
- Working Capital Management
- Exit Planning & Turnaround Strategies
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| Business Planning (Start UP & RUN) – 2 Days |
- Defining and Analyzing Your Business
- Researching Your Market and Business Environment
- Developing Your Formal Business Plan & Why
- Funding Alternatives
- Raising Capital
- Essential Management Functions
- Bookkeeping and Administrative Systems
- Monitoring Growth Using an Audit Checklist
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| Lean Startup (3 Days) |
- Introduction to lean methodology
- Meta Principles
- Lean startup model
- Vision
- Create your lean canvas
- Systematically test your plan
- Steer
- Accelerate
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| Entrepreneurial Project Management (2 Days) |
| Entrepreneurial HRM (2 Days) |
| Digital Thinking (1 Day) |
| Marketing & Business Development (2 Days) |
| Sales Management (2 Days) |
| Operations Management (2 Days) |
Level 3 “Entrepreneurship & Performance Management” Our advanced level of Entrepreneurship education offers in depth exposure, understanding and practice for essential executive management skills 23 Session 115 Hrs.
| Strategy and Governance (1 Day) |
| Strategic Planning (2 Days) |
- What’s strategy: An integrated understanding of strategy
- Environment and positioning – Identifying opportunities and risks
- Offer and marketing – Focusing customer advantage
- Knowledge and competences – Establishing strategic strength
- Value chain and organization – Delivering competitive advantages
- Measures and controlling – Managing implementation
- Leadership and mobilizing – Winning over employees
- Finance and evaluation – Measuring the value of strategy
- Opportunities and risks – Managing uncertainty
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| Performance Management & measurement (2 Days) |
| Corporate Culture & Transformation (1 Day) |
| Resourcing & Talent Management (2 Days) |
| International HRM (1 Day) |
| Corporate Leadership (1 Day) |
| Coaching for Strategic Results (2 Days) |
| Investment Banking (1 Day) |
| Financial Analysis (1 Day) |
| Organization Development & Change Management (2 Days) |
| Strategic Human Resources Management (3 Days) |
- Strategic HRM define: The nature of SHRM
- The resource-based view of strategic HRM
- The reality of strategic HRM
- The Strategic Role of HR
- Establishing Organizational Capabilities
- The concept strategic performance management
- Formulating HR strategy
- Philosophy on managing people
- Building Leadership Depth
- Achieving Integration
- Sensing and Aligning HR to New Business Realities
- The framework of HR strategy
- Business Model innovation, SHRM driven
- High performance strategy
- Types of HR strategies (Human Capital Management, Engagement Strategy, CSR Strategy, OD Strategy, Knowledge management strategy, Talent management strategy, L&D strategy, resourcing strategy, Reward strategy & Employee Relations Strategy)
- The strategic HRM toolkit
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| Supply Chain Management & Advanced Planning (2 Days) |
- Introduction to supply chain
- The main building blocks for supply chain management
- Viewing your supply chain as a strategic asset
- Supply Chain Analysis
- Develop an end-to-end process architecture
- Planning tasks along the supply chain
- Structure of advanced planning systems (Demand planning, Master planning, Demand fulfilment & ATP, Production planning and scheduling, Purchasing and materials requirements planning, Coordination and Integration, and collaborative planning)
- Strategic Network design
- Enhance your organization design for performance
- Embed the right collaborative model
- Use metrics to drive business success
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| Strategic Compensation (2 Days) |
- Exploring and Defining the Compensation Context
- Strategic versus Tactical Decisions
- Compensation Professionals’ Goals
- Stakeholders of the Compensation System
- Employment Laws that Influence Compensation Tactics
- Laws that Guide Discretionary Employee Benefits
- Traditional Bases for Pay
- Incentive Pay
- Person-Focused Pay
- Building Internally Consistent Compensation Systems
- Building Market-Competitive Compensation Systems
- Integrating Internal Job Structures with External Market Pay Rates
- Compensation Policies and Strategic Mandates
- Building Pay Structures that Recognize Employee Contributions
- Discretionary Benefits
- Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plans and Health Insurance Programs
- Compensating Executives
- Compensating the Flexible Workforce
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| Certificate Graduation Project |
