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Custom Programs
The University of St.Gallen’s «Custom Programs»-Department
Online with the client
The University of St.Gallen provides top class tailored executive
education solutions for companies, non-governmental
organisations and the public administration. These so-called
custom programs are being especially designed for and with
the individual organisation and focus on company-specific
challenges.
Services for the different learning solutions include the whole
range from analysing the specific needs of the organisation’s
executives, the close development of the program contents,
proposals of adequate methodologies and didactics to support
the learning benefits, the execution of state-of-the-art
training to – most importantly – the accompaniment of implementation
measures.
Hereby, the ES-HSG can build upon more than 80 professors
with different professional background and more than
400 Adjunct Faculty covering almost every aspect of management,
technology and law. At the same time their close
interconnectedness with business through research and
projects builds a strong asset with regards to the University’s
reality focus. Hence, more time is spent on customizing with
the support of acknowledged experts in designing programs
in order to make a true difference for the client. Moreover, the
evaluation process jointly developed with the University’s
Swiss Centre for Innovation in Learning (scil) supports the
ES-HSG in measuring the impacts of its learning.
In the world of executive education projects have to be carefully
adapted to the clients’ needs – from a content point of
view as well as from a teaching methodology and didactics
approach. At the ES-HSG, programs differ a lot as to where
the customer puts its emphasis. From accompanying an
organisation in structuring and supervising its strategy review
process to the use of a company’s academy for trainings and
workshops to cascade and implement the corporate strategy
or the further development of an organisation’s senior manager
general management skills set.
Projects with practical relevance
Lonza, one of the world’s leading suppliers to the pharmaceutical,
healthcare and life science industries, reviewed
and reoriented the strategies of its nine business units. The
ES-HSG structured and moderated the process to support
Lonza’s business unit teams who developed the strategies.
The results were clear-cut strategic priorities and a high degree
of commitment to the implementation of these ambitious
objectives by all involved. Winning the EFMD 2 -Award 2012
for this project strongly demonstrates the solution’s innovative
performance and sustainability.
2 «European Foundation for Management Development» (Brussels)
In a different project setting Forbo, a producer of flooring and
movement systems, opted for a practice-oriented executive
education program in order to meet ever increasing requirements.
The main objective was to further expand its management’s
leadership skills and to make a direct contribution
to Forbo’s lasting success. The result of the module-based
approach is a common conception of leadership and a high
degree of identification with corporate values and objectives.
In every customized program, the whole breadth of experience
from both the program managers responsible for the
design and the Faculty accountable for the relevant content
and teaching is shown. No matter which size the company,
the Custom Programs team has an adequate answer with
regards to an anticipated learning impact of foreseen initiatives.
Based on this variety in programs, the ES-HSG shows a
strong qualitative performance resulting in a 12th overall rank
amongst European Business Schools in the FT Executive
Education Ranking and last but not least in the victory of the
2012 EFMD-Award in the category «Organisation Development».
Contact
Dr. Markus Frank
Executive Director
Executive School of Management, Technology and Law
Dufourstrasse 32, CH-9000 St.Gallen
T| +41 (0)71 224 75 02
F| +41 (0)71 224 76 79
E| markus.frank@unisg.ch
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