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The focus of the course is to provide participants with an introduction to accounting basics. It highlights the role of financial and  managerial accounting for effective decision-making and control. It also addresses some common pitfalls when making important decisions and ways to overcome them.

This course covers the fundamental building blocks of financial decision-making. It focuses on financial markets and how they are shaped by digitalization. Furthermore, it deals with strategic issues typically faced by managers, such as determining the cost of capital, capital budgeting and valuation techniques.

The aim of this course is to provide participants with a hands-on understanding of the design and use of common management control systems. This includes discussion of the planning and budgeting process, financial and non-financial performance measurement, and questions of target setting and performance evaluation. Participants learn about the usefulness of management control systems, but also about potential challenges and pitfalls.

This course introduces participants to Fintech, the emerging world of applications, concepts, developments, business models and companies at the interface of Finance and Technology. It covers the main Fintech areas, and it is based on case discussions and lectures. Additionally the course emphasizes the role of risk management in a modern corporate setting.

This course introduces participants to a powerful tool that enables decision-makers to address uncertainty explicitly overcoming the weaknesses of the more traditional scenario analysis approach.

The business environment is digital! The growing connectivity of people, machines, and businesses has changed our daily business. In order to keep up and stay competitive, companies must adjust to these demands by digitizing their processes, business models as well as leadership approach. In this course, you will get a digital mindset to embrace innovation and a toolset to bring in fresh ways of thinking.

The power and reach of converging ICT trends makes it necessary to understand the newest developments of a software-driven, everything-connected world and their implications. This course highlights the challenges a company is facing and offers a toolbox of solutions.

This course introduces the foundations, potentials and challenges of Digital Transformation. It equips the participants with the required knowledge on Information Management and IT Strategy to plan, evaluate and implement IT-enabled Business Model Innovations at incumbent organizations.

The role of IT becomes increasingly important for the corporate strategy of companies. However, this importance depends on the information systems ability to deliver value and their implementation drives organisational performance. Therefore, it is necessary that companies’ information is meaningful and useful to decision making

From business intelligence and big data analytics to application to improve products and services. How can the daily-flood of data be made understandably and usable for successful business decisions? Drowning in data a company in the digital era must know how to handle them but also how to use them in their strategy.

This course explains the importance of communication within the global digital economy, exploring the company’s identity, personality and reputation at a corporate level. Moreover, of course the related Crisis Management will be highlighted.

This course offers a practical introduction in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) for non-technical business leaders. It helps business domain experts better assess the potential of AI/ML for their businesses, avoid common pitfalls when implementing AI/ML in their organisations and initiate and execute successful data driven projects.

The course on Competition highlights the main economics basis of competition behaviors and developments with a strong emphasis on the Digital Economy features such as for example the price setting algorithms or the impact of the sharing economy on the markets (Uber, Airbnb, etc.). The course scrutinizes the competition patterns in digital markets as well as the competition patterns in digital networks and platforms.

The course on Competitiveness – organized in collaboration with the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness led by Michael Porter (Harvard Business School) – focuses on the main drivers of competitiveness and how to strengthen the competitiveness of a company. New developments of firms strategies such as created shared value strategies are presented. This course covers inter alia the role of clusters, the impact of the Smart Connected Products and of the so-called “Augmented Reality Technologies” on firms’ competitiveness and the new business opportunities offered by the Smart Cities based on digital technologies.

In a very interactive course that can be directly applied at your company during an agile transformation or definition of a new project management method, we will discuss the challenges and benefits of Global Projects and Agile Approaches. You will get a practical insight into the latest trends in research and practice of project management and assess which principles can be applied in their companies to stay ahead in today’s competitive and global economy