
IIM Calcutta | Advanced Programme in Strategic Management for Corporate Leaders (Batch 17)
Execute Well-Designed Strategic Initiatives for Sustained Business Growth
Execute Well-Designed Strategic Initiatives for Sustained Business Growth
Course Snapshot
- FeeINR 4,38,000 /- + GST
- Work Experience7 - 30 Years
- Duration8 Months
- Delivery MethodBlended- Online

Course Detail
Programme Overview:
Like values and mission, strategies are non-negotiable cornerstones, shaping the essence and direction of an organisation. However, many businesses need help with the challenge of achieving both well-formulated and well-executed strategies. Strategic management becomes imperative in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) environment. It empowers corporate leaders to craft strategies and, more importantly, execute them effectively. APSMCL is an intensive 8-month programme that keeps corporate leaders at their strategic best by expanding their insight into different strategic management theories, models and practices essential for long-term success. Participants will be taught how to translate strategy into value-driven decisions and create effective strategies supporting their organisation's goals.
Learning Outcomes:
- Develop a strategic mindset for adapting to complexity and shifting power dynamics.
- Understand the strategic landscapes of industries and the economics behind strategic moves.
- Explore firm strategies, sustainability, resource conflicts and their relation to strategy.
- Master the strategies of leading change during institutional transitions.
- Decode the dynamics of the start-up ecosystem and nurture start-up culture in large organisations.
- Align organisational strategies with the fast-evolving demands of the Digital Economy.
- Find out the strategic elements of corporate restructuring and Mergers & Acquisitions.
- Study institutional frameworks to manage multi-stakeholder interests successfully.
- Investigate the rise of the State/government in a multi-polar and unstable geopolitical order.
Desired Candidate Profile
- Eligibility: 7+ years of experience.
Course Modules
- Strategic Thinking: The science behind strategy landscapes and relations of conflicts and cooperations.
- Competitive advantages in product/services businesses; understanding creation and destructions of moats, economics of digital ecosystems and platforms, economics of scaling or non-linear profit growth.
- Managing contracting, outsourcing and modularization, developing clarity on where, when and how to push for cooperation.
- Structuring and designing large organisations, clarifying operational, middle and top management roles, leading and mobilising people, strategy practices and organisational routines, leading people and organisations through technological and institutional transitions.
- Business model and why it is disruptive, growing a start-up from Zero-to-One, cash burn, Venture Capital, creating a start-up culture inside a large firm.
- Corporate strategies, corporate restructuring and M&A.
- Appreciating institutions and the way it shapes organising for business; varieties of capitalism, developing a cross-country comparative canvass of economic growth and well-being, understanding the new strategic role of the State in business affairs.
- The art and science of strategic leadership, strategic communication, competing on narratives.