industrial mba is an engaged learning community that seeks to

Introduction

Industrial MBA is an engaged learning community that seeks to promote financial viability, ecological sustainability, and social justice in business and organizations of all types. Students graduate with practical skills and experience, prepared to innovate, communicate, and lead effectively in the face of global challenges. We provide a culture of collaboration and innovation for those ready to take responsibility in a complex world that needs rethinking.

Industrial MBA is an on-site program whose graduates receive a Master of Business Administration degree. Students have a choice of one and the half-year full-time and three-year part-time structures to accommodate life/work balance while pursuing the degree.

MissionThe Industrial MBA is an engaging learning community where people with strong values develop effective leadership capacities to advance economically successful, and socially just initiatives in any type of organization.

What is Industrial MBA? Industrial MBA program offers participants the opportunity to create meaningful, enduring change in their workplace, community and personal lives. In addition to learning about important concepts of sustainability, participants gain practical and applicable skills while working closely with businesses, government and non-profits in the Bay Area.

Through this educational certificate program, graduates have transitioned to rewarding careers in sustainability, have taken their businesses to new levels and have discovered innovative ways to contribute to their communities.


CurriculumThe Industrial MBA curriculum integrates the stewardship of financial, human, and natural capital – beyond the triple bottom line - into a world-class program. Our collaborative, project-oriented approach integrates the development of entrepreneurial business skills with critical thinking and leadership capacities. Our emphasis is on systemic approaches to understanding complexity, equipping students to innovate and nurture resilience in organizations of all sizes.

Entrepreneurship

All organizations need to be innovative and entrepreneurial in today's economy. Effectively conceptualizing and leading initiatives that address critical environmental and social issues in business requires creative thinking, market research, financial acumen, resource allocation and the ability to produce new business models. This course challenges students to transform their capacities to generate, plan and execute opportunities to bring new products, services and approaches to the market that have a positive impact on society.

Community

The Industrial MBA community is a diverse, multi-generational group with a rich variety of life experience and work backgrounds. We cultivate a sense of place and belonging, and our network extends beyond global partners and a broad array of organizations and individuals who share our common purpose. Community events for students, alumni, faculty, and guests promote cross-pollination of ideas and the expansion of personal and organizational networks. Small classes, transparent communication, faculty-mentors, and collaborative, project-oriented learning create a supportive, challenging environment.

Transformation

Our guiding principle is: "Transform Yourself. Transform Business. Transform The World." Program participants begin by exploring their beliefs, purpose, passion, and world view. Students acquire the tools to lead organizations to transcend 'business as usual' practices and adapt with a rapidly changing world.

Who Should Take this Program?

Business owners that want to adopt new practices in their organizations

People seeking a career change to make a positive difference in the environment and beyond

Educators, parents, and school administrators

Seekers of personal enrichment


Key FeaturesAffordable and Quick

As a part of the coursework, students will have the opportunity to produce a capstone project that will allow them to apply their new skills and knowledge to real-world projects, enabling them to make a meaningful contribution to community and the environment.

Diverse Applications

There are many ways in which this program can provide benefit for participants: employment, networking, leadership, mentoring, internships and more.

Industrial Support

The acceptance of candidates depends on both university and also the industry. All candidates are partially sponsored by the established industry

Our FIVE Differentiators1. Global Intelligence Rise to the challenge of operating in a global world.

2. Learning in Practice Learn how to make decisions in the face of conflicting data, complex politics, and intense pressures.

3. Creativity & Innovation Explore a potential new venture, connect with entrepreneurs, and discover the Sustainability Network.

4. Learning Community Find a community of support and a close-knit network of friendships that last a lifetime.

5. Networking Relationship Build connections and uncover business opportunities.


IIC Case Method: Harvard Business School Teaching Style

How the HBS Case Method Works

During case presentation, student place themselves in the position of decision makers of the organisation. Students need to understand the scenario of the organisation, identify the problem they are faced with. After analysing, students need to provide recommendations.

For all cases, candidates need to have a discussion teams to discuss the findings. In the class – under the questioning an guidance of the lecturer – candidate probe underlying issues, compare different alternatives, and finally, suggest courses of action in light of the organization's objectives.

By applying this method, 85 percent of the talking will be done by the students, as the lecturer guide the learning process through observations and asking questions. This classroom interaction is enriched by classmates from diverse industries, functions, countries, and experiences. At the end of the class, you'll be amazed at what you learn from exchanging ideas with your classmates.


Course OutlineCommunication Skills and Leadership

Within the team setting, students practice specific methods to enhance a broad range of communication skills and their “emotional intelligence”, including listening, observing, self-assessment, self-reflection, seeking feedback, providing feedback, addressing conflicts constructively and ethically, collaborating toward a common goal, and team evaluation based on shared standards. The instructor provides extensive feedback to individual students and teams regarding their ability to analyse, synthesize and convey complex ideas in writing. This experiential course focuses on questions such as: How do we maximize the performance of the teams we become a part of? What interpersonal skills give us influence? Which interpersonal strengths can propel us to our next promotion? What development areas might prevent our ascension to the executive suite?

Organizational Behaviour

This course focuses on cultivating mindsets and building skills to understand the ways in which organizations and their members affect each other. This program helps you to learn frameworks for diagnosing and resolving problems in organizational settings. The course relates theory and research to organizational problems by reviewing basic concepts such as individual motivation and behaviour; decision making; interpersonal communication and influence; small group behaviour; and dyadic, individual, and inter-group conflict and cooperation.

Corporate Accounting and Financial Management

Students learn the fundamentals of managerial accounting and how to use quantitative tools to measure organizational performance in order to achieve economic and organisational objectives. The course teaches students how companies, institutions and regulators can incorporate the concept of triple-bottom-line reporting. Students gain experience researching the financial, environmental, and social performance of various organizations. Courses in this area explore alternative costing methods and how the resulting cost information can be used for decision-making, planning, and performance measurement. Students are enabled to use these financial models and tools to build and analyze business plans and to justify management decisions in a sustainable venture. Examples of topics covered in understanding capital markets and their relation to internal capital budgeting includes: consolidation, derivatives, hedging, leases, revenue recognition, variable interest entities, and equity compensation, capital structure, valuation, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, international finance, hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts, financial distress and bankruptcy.


Course Outline

Industrial Operations Management

This course focuses on the concepts and analytic methods that are useful in the design and management of an organization's operational processes. Concepts of operational excellence, Lean and DMAIC are reviewed through exploration of current marketplace practices to identify risks and opportunities for operations managers. This survey course provides students with a review of the language, concepts, insights and tools to assess and improve operations in order to gain competitive advantage. You will learn about the problems and issues confronting operations managers and gain language, conceptual models, and analytical techniques that are broadly applicable in confronting such problems.

Strategic Management

This course introduces the key concepts, tools, and principles of strategy formulation and competitive analysis. It is concerned with managerial decisions and actions that affect the performance and survival of business enterprises. The course is focused on the information, analyses, organizational processes, and skills and business judgment managers must use to devise strategies, position their businesses, define firm boundaries and maximize long-term profits in the face of uncertainty and competition. The course takes a general management perspective, viewing the firm as a whole, and examining how policies in each functional area are integrated into an overall competitive strategy. The key strategic business decisions of concern in this course involve selecting competitive strategies, creating and defending competitive advantages, defining firm boundaries and allocating critical resources over long periods. Decisions such as these can only be made effectively by viewing a firm holistically, and over the long term.

Management Information System

Studies the important uses of information technology in organizations. Includes information requirements and flow, system design and analysis methodologies, the generation and accumulation of data for decision making, and the implementation and control of information systems. In this module, candidates would understand the roles played by information technology in today’s business and define various technology architectures on which information systems are built. At the same time, candidates are exposed to functional information systems and identify how they meet the needs of the firm to deliver efficiency and competitive advantage and the basic steps in systems development.

Human Capital Management

The human capitals of an organization are often the most valuable assets of the organization, and the assets that are most difficult to manage. Drawing on the disciplines of economics, social psychology, and organizational sociology, the course offerings in Human Resource Management give you frameworks and concepts that help you manage your organization’s personnel.


Course OutlineMarketing Strategies and Tactics

This course introduces students to the principles and vocabulary of marketing management, to the strategic implications of marketing decision making in the domestic and global marketplace, and to the most current marketing tactics for achieving strategic marketing goals. Instruction focuses on the marketing environment, the competitive challenges of the changing market structures, and the tools that today’s marketing manager needs to manage and mitigate risk in both for-profit and non-profit companies.

Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship

All organizations need to be innovative and entrepreneurial in today’s economy. Effectively conceptualizing and leading initiatives that address critical environmental and social issues in business requires creative thinking, market research, financial acumen, resource allocation and the ability to produce new business models. This course challenges students to transform their capacities to generate, plan and execute opportunities to bring new products, services and approaches to the market that have a positive impact on society.

Industrial Research Methods

This course teaches students methods and practices for applied field research to support environmental sustainability in business decision making. Students learn and practice qualitative and quantitative research methods through developing and implementing a research plan and generating a report relevant to a specific industry. Other common market research methods such as observational studies and in-depth interviews with local experts are explored.

Metrics, Advocacy & Policy

This course explores systemic organizational sustainability issues from the perspectives of the internal change agent and the external consultant. Multiple approaches are learned and practiced, from advocating organizational, state, national and global policies that create ground rules with the right incentives to designing metrics that illuminate organizational performance in natural, human and financial capital accounts. The course includes a significant consulting project that integrates and applies learning from this and prior courses.

Business Consultancy

This is the practical hands-on course where students need all the skills that you have learnt throughout the course to help the organisation to solve a topics. In this section, candidates would be assigned with a supervisor and also a company to work with. Students need to identify the short term and long term problems for the organisation. Then, candidates need to propose a strategy to solve the organisation. In addition, student needs to implement the strategies for the organisation. Students need to produce a logbook and also a report for this subject. Once completed this subject, students can be a qualified business consultant independently.


Your Investment

Total Fees : RM 28, 600

Company Sponsorship* : RM 16, 000

Your Investment : RM 12, 600

*This program is only opened for successful sponsored students only. *Sponsored students need to base on the company for the consultation work.

Mode of Payment

Instalment Plan Modular Plan

12 months x RM 800 = RM 96005 months x RM 600 = RM 3000

Total: RM 12 600

12 modules x RM 1000 = RM 12 000+

Total: RM 12 000

+ Discount of RM 600


Program Supporter

Malaysia Organization Global Organization

PERODUA Group, Malaysia

Universiti Putra Malaysia

Multi Platform Consultancy Services

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, Cambodia

Human Behaviour Academy, United Kingdom

Social Responsibility Asia

Contact Us

Asia Learning Center 73-3 Amber Business Plaza, Jalan Jelawat 1, 56100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia [email protected]


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