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Leaders 2010

The Media & Newspaper Executive Development Programme

Module I: Business Environment and Strategy
20 - 23 September 2010

Module II: Business System Design
15 - 18 November 2010

Module III: Change Management and Industry Issues
23 - 27 January 2011
Copenhagen, Denmark
Language(s): English

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The faculty
SIMI recruits top, internationally known faculty from Asian, European and North American Business Schools. The high academic level combined with specific industry knowledge enriches the learning environment.

Among the faculty you will find:
James Teboul, Senior Affiliate Professor of Operations Management, INSEAD, France

Paul Wang, Associate professor in the Integrated Marketing Communications program at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, USA

Sandra Sieber, Professor of Information Systems and Information Technology, IESE Business School, Spain

André Wierdsma, Professor Organizing and Co-Creating; Program Director Advanced Management Program, Nyenrode Business Universiteit, The Netherlands

Roger Hallowell, Affiliated Professor of Strategy, HEC School of Management, France


The programme
Module I: Business Environment and Strategy
This module aims at providing you with an in-depth understanding of the changing landscape in the newspaper industry and related media. Participants will have the chance to develop new perspectives of their own business and its environment, based on a set of practical tools and frameworks. Multi-company groups will be formed to start working on a set of topical issues from the idustry.

Module II: Business System Design
This module focuses on how to establish and sustain an innovative mindset throughout the organisation and on how marketing strategies can support the overall strategy. Case studies will illustrate how technology is changing the way information is delivered and the major transformational changes the media industry is witnessing right now.

Module III: Change Management and Industry Issues
This module equips participants with best practices for changing the organisation. Focus will be put on how managers can handle the dilemma between the need for stability and the necessity to constantly change and innovate. It will be an eye-opener to the challenge and ambiguity you are always up against when dealing with people. The programme is closed by the conclusion of the work on the industry issues culminating in a presentation to the class of all these issues.

Your benefits
- Learn to design and implement strategic initiatives
- Design a strategy for a selected business unit of the sponsoring company
- Implement the strategy to deliver bottom-line impact
- Develop an understanding of major industry issues
- Build a broader professional network within the industry
- Earn a diploma

Key factors in the learning
- Intensive participant contribution
- Involvement of internationally renowned faculty from leading business schools, universities and advisors to industry
- Discussion of cases that are relevant to the industry
- Anchoring of home company assignments in the sponsoring company
- Multi-company group work on key industry issues

Who should attend?
Leaders is designed for senior managers in the media & newspaper industry who need to develop an understanding of the future strategic options in the industry and implications of these. It is integral to the success of the programme that participants consist of senior members of the editorial departments, executives from the advertising, marketing, production and finance departments as well as those involved in electronic media.

Participation will be limited to about 36 participants to facilitate fruitful in-class discussions, advice and feedback.

Since the first programme in 2000, over 200 senior executives from more than 80 leading newspaper companies in United States, Europe, Africa and Asia have attended the programme.

See Leaders participants statistics 2000 - 2008, click here.



Fees / Prix / Preise

General
Standard price:
EUR 13,400 + VAT

For two participants per company:
EUR 12,000 + VAT per person

The fee includes all learning materials and food during the programme. Travel lodging expenses are not included in the participation fee.

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Christiane Schmidt

Senior Programme Manager - Emerging Digital Platforms and Business Development
 +49.6151.733-771
 +49.6151.733-800
christiane.schmidt@wan-ifra.org

Jesper Christiansen
Programme Director
Phone +45.35.25.30.00
jchristiansen@simi.dk

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Since the first program in 2000, over 230 senior executives from almost 100 leading newspaper companies in Europe, United States and Asia have attended the programme...

...Agora, A-pressen, Associated Newspapers, AZ Medien, Bonnier, Corelio, Corriere dello Sport – Stadio, De Persgroep, Die Presse, De Telegraaf, Edipresse, Egmont, El Mundo, Group Blandy, Groupo Clarin, Globe & Mail, Guardian Media Group, Holtzbrinck, Independent Newspapers, Joong Ang Ilbo, Johncom, La Voix du Nord, Nikkei, Norske Skog, Politiken, Ouest-France, Reuters, Royal Wegener, Tarun Bharat Daily, The Irish Times, The Star Newspaper, Trinity Mirror, Sanoma, and many others...

"I had a terrific time, lots of hard work but the environment was both stimulating and professional. The network I have established as result of attending SIMI's Leaders program has been invaluable in developing my career. I particularly enjoyed the robust discussions during class and learning from the real-life experiences of industry colleagues through our informal conversations. Practically, the Home Company Assignment has allowed me to execute a business strategy within my organisation that has paid for the course many times over already. The Leaders program is a perfect example of executive training that presents a win/win situation for both the participant and the Media Company for whom they work." Damian Trezise, Chief Operating Officer, McPherson Media Group, Victoria, Australia, Alumnus 200

“Firstly do not expect a pedantic classroom program...expect that what you discover there can be reapplied back in your home company....I use the word "discover" carefully for the learning at SIMI is a process of discovery dictated by the self interest that one wants to take out of it as well as the group dynamics. The lectures by highly learned faculty members are indeed very good as they tend to get thought provoking...but to me the biggest value was in the heterogeneous group.....a lot of interactions, understanding that somebody somewhere has tried a solution to the problem that you are facing back home in your market and therefore indulging yourself in your very own Eureka moment. The two projects that we did at SIMI were the short term results of the program....one of them is physically under implementation in my home company and, success or failure apart, the fact that we have a structured strategy with various bottlenecks planned for (with learnings from a lot of my colleagues and the faculty at SIMI) and the project is in implementation mode provides a sense of achievement. SIMI Leaders program is definitely worth the time and effort." Anand Ramabhadran, Business Head, Hindustan Times. HT Media Ltd., India, Alumnus 2007