Advanced Management Course (AMC) — Online

Mini-MBA for experienced managers

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Overview

A proven and popular seminar for more than 50 years, this practical and highly interactive program examines management’s major disciplines in depth and from a strategic perspective. The learning-by-doing format includes a realistic business simulation that enables you to respond concretely to complex management decisions and take away ideas that will have immediate impact on the job. This is also an opportunity to gain or renew contacts with leading management decision makers, learn from peer story telling, and gain new perspectives from the faculty team. Delivered in Montreal, Toronto (Mississauga), and online, the format fits well with the workday of busy professionals from in both the public and private sectors.

Key Benefits and Takeaways

  • Provides a condensed and up-to-date set of advanced management practices
  • Enhances the ability to formulate and communicate key strategies
  • Offers ideas to streamline management processes and set meaningful KPIs and goals
  • Integrates late-breaking market, competitive, and organizational issues for managing change
  • Includes personalized discussions with faculty that assist in implementing solutions
  • Learn to apply new skills through a realistic and engaging business simulation
  • Benchmark yourself and connect with peers from diverse industries/organizations

This program is designed for experienced decision makers who manage at regional, national, and international levels. Participants require strong management experience and/or an MBA academic background. This program is an outstanding next step for those who have taken our Executive Development Course (EDC).
Please contact us to make sure that this seminar is right for you.

The registration fee includes facilitation by our highly rated faculty members, a comprehensive digital workbook, results oriented exercises, and a certificate of completion from the McGill Executive Institute.

Topics covered in this course

This section employs an advanced computer simulation that challenges you to integrate, apply, and test the concepts developed during the course. You will develop strategies with your team to compete against other teams while enhancing skills in operational finance, strategic pricing, marketing, and negotiations.

    Challenge ideas and explore opportunities within your organization in consultation with our course leaders. This session provides an opportunity to integrate the tools and strategies discussed in the program by applying them to your own business.
  • Understand strategic issues raised by globalization processes
  • Gain competitive advantage in global markets
  • Initiate strategic change in large, mature organizations
  • Manage innovation by balancing market risk and technological uncertainty
  • Assess leadership styles and organizational approaches to strategic change
  • Create strategic change in your organization
  • Acquire effective techniques to analyze your firm’s financial operations
  • ntegrate financial data with operations
  • Employ activity-based management
  • Apply life-cycle and target-costing methodology
  • Use financial and non-financial performance indicators
  • Benefit from capital investments
  • Optimize organizational capabilities

    Take a holistic view of key management challenges and bring all elements of your business together to create value.

  • Transition from silos to cross-functional leadership
  • Use business models for value creation
  • Understand the interplay between strategies
    Team building and presentation skills will be part of the business simulation experience.
  • Strategic considerations for your tactical approaches
  • Compete to win
  • B2B marketing
  • Marketing planning
  • Effective differentiation
  • Brand management
  • Build market leadership
  • Optimize and manage all processes around your value stream
  • Define benchmarks in business excellence
  • Employ effective operations strategy
  • Understand supply chain flows
  • Efficient business processes – models and tools

 

Course Leaders

Alex Boussetta

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Alex Boussetta

Alex Boussetta is an Affiliate Member at McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management where he has been teaching quality management and operational excellence since 2003. In addition, he consults with a wide variety of organizations on improving internal processes, implementing project management practices, turn around initiatives and continuous improvement deployments. In addition to academics, Alex is a seasoned practitioner with roles as Manager of the Six Sigma Competency Center at Bombardier Aerospace, Corporate Director of Lean at MAAX, and most recently Director, Global Supply Chain and Devices Quality at Blackberry. He has a Masters in Engineering Project Management

Carl Boutet

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Carl Boutet

Carl is a strategic advisor with over 25 years of experience in operations, marketing, merchandising and business development. He has spent the last 15 years in senior-level positions in the retail sector with both a large American based multinational corporation and Canada’s largest membership-based retail solutions group serving over 800 independent home furnishings retailers. Carl’s expertise lies in helping senior leaders to better leverage technology, analytics & design to create value and sustainable competitive advantage for their organizations. He also advises technology companies on how to best tailor their solutions to address needs that best align with the ever-changing market needs. He recently worked with a team of computer vision (AI) researchers as retail strategy & global commercial lead and has advised on several retail innovation labs including CieTech as well as the recently announced Bensadoun Retail Management School at McGill University. He holds a Bachelors in Commerce (Marketing) from Concordia University and an MBA from Queen’s University.

 

David Lavallée

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David Lavallée

David Lavallée has a Graduate Diploma in Public Accountancy from McGill University. As a Chartered Professional Accountant as well as a partner at Guimond Lavallée, he has led audit teams for various public and private companies in the mining, manufacturing and retail industries. He brings over 14 years of experience in audit, taxation and consulting services. He also has expertise with start-ups, as well as companies experiencing rapid growth. In 2017, Mr. Lavallée received CPA Émérite Award, awarded by Chartered Professional Accountants of Québec, region of Montérégie.

Jerry Remillard

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Jerry Remillard

Jerry Remillard specializes in team dynamics and implementation of business strategies in the workplace. He is a coach, trainer and consultant, acquiring his corporate skills and knowledge in such well-known corporations as Kraft Foods, Domtar, and Catelli. Through McGill and his own firm, JR Management, Jerry’s particular interest lies in helping managers at all levels translate “what needs to be done” into “how to get it done.” He holds a B.A. with a minor in psychology and an MBA in Marketing, and is a graduate of Corporate Coach University.

 

Miriam Carver

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Miriam Carver

As a faculty member of the McGill Executive Institute and lecturer in the Desautels Faculty of Management, Miriam Carver’s areas of expertise include leadership development, conflict resolution, negotiation skills, building teams, customer service, executive coaching, and emotional intelligence. She consults to a wide variety of organizations in divers sectors from manufacturing and telecommunications to government and healthcare. She holds a Master’s in Education (Counselling Psychology) from McGill University and has completed additional graduate work in Organizational Development and Conflict Resolution.

Upcoming Sessions

Begins 14 September 2021

Online

12 week program, 6-8 hours/week
This seminar features a combination of self-paced learning and virtual live sessions. Virtual live session take place on Monday and Thursday evenings (ET), with some exceptions due to holidays.

Course Start Date: 14 September 2021

Live Instructor Led Sessions

  • Tuesday 14 September, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET – Opening session
  • Friday 17 September, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Tuesday 21 September, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Friday 24 September, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Tuesday 28 September, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Friday 1 October, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Tuesday 5 October, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Friday 8 October, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Tuesday 12 October, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Friday 15 October, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Tuesday 19 October, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Friday 22 October, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Tuesday 26 October, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Friday 29 October, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Tuesday 2 November, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Friday 5 November, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Tuesday 9 November, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Friday 12 November, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Tuesday 16 November, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Friday 19 November, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Tuesday 23 November, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Friday 26 November, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Tuesday 30 November, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET
  • Virtual Presence Required: Friday 3 December, 2021 — 6pm to 9pm ET – Final Presentations and Closing Ceremony
Price: CA$4,895.00

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