Provide candidates with skills to analyse the competitive and environmental factors that can impact on the organisation, its profitability and performance and to develop the competencies to define a business strategy, to translate this into operational activities, to communicate the strategy and measure performance against it.

To improve the organisational effectiveness of those departments represented on the programme and, in particular, to contribute to heightening the level of organisational integration across functional boundaries.

To contribute to achieving continuous improvements in organisational effectiveness, the accomplishment of change necessary for growth and a heightened awareness of the inter-dependence of different parts of the business.

To heighten the awareness of participants to customers, both internal and external, and their needs and how they can be satisfied.

To create an awareness of the importance of external and internal suppliers and of reaching collaborative relationships with them.

To improve the managerial knowledge and skills necessary to increase each individual’s operational performance, to encourage individuals to make the most of their existing talents and future potential and to enable participants to develop a balanced and critical approach to management principles and practices.

To stress the process of delegating the responsibility for the effective utilisation of people, capital, materials and information to managers down to and including first line managers.

To provide a coherent framework for self-development in which individuals play an active part while they are continuously developing their managerial competencies (i.e. learn to learn from their own experiences).  In particular, to foster individual intellectual development and a balanced and critical approach to what is being studied.

To enable individuals to develop and apply those basic core competencies required by all managers in the organisation and those specialist competencies required by their specific functions.  In particular, to acquire greater self-confidence to challenge assumptions that underpin existing business frameworks and the management ability that results from improved competency across the broad range of modern people management skills.