Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) Programme
- Online + Live Sessions with NUS Business School faculty
- 1-day campus experience and networking opportunity at NUS campus (optional)
- Digital certificate by NUS Business School upon programme completion
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Upcoming Round Application Deadline: 2nd August 2024 | Application Fee: US$125
Programme Highlights
Comprehensive programme design of 18 modules of core courses and 3 electives from which participants can choose 2 enabling a enriching experience
Pre-Recorded Video Lectures* from NUS faculty with for self-paced learning interspersed with live lectures from renowned NUS faculty and industry practitioners
Craft your learning journey in line with your career goals with the help of a Success Coach
Certificate of completion from NUS Business School
1-day campus experience and networking opportunity at NUS campus (optional)
CSO Playbook: introspect on their role within a strategy domain
Who Should Attend?
Functional and Business Heads: Working towards formulating strategy for your organisation, managing alliances and corporate development
Senior Leaders: Focussing on executing growth initiatives, introducing innovations in different markets leading business/ functions/ business development in a region
Eligibility Criteria: This programme is designed for business professionals with a minimum 10 years of work experience with 5 or more years of management experience and have fluency in written and spoken English
Key designations include: CSO, Vice President, Managing partner, Director, Executive director, Chief Business development officer, Strategy Consultant
Learning Outcomes
Evaluate strategic initiatives
Strategise growth opportunities for the business
Formulate a corporate strategy
Successfully implement a corporate strategy
Examine organisational performance factors to affect strategic direction
Apply strategic objectives across different organisation functions in support of growth, profitability, and viability
Customised design for your success
The Chief Strategy Officer programme is designed with the needs of busy executives in mind. You will learn through online and interactive sessions and guest lectures from global industry leaders. The flexible nature of the programme allows you to customise your learning journey for maximum career and business impact.
Flexible
The self-paced modules provide the flexibility to accommodate learning around your busy work schedule. The programme can be completed in 9 to 10 months as your schedule and programme selections demand.
Interactive
A community learning experience with a limited cohort size facilitates interactive discussions with peers, programme coaches, faculty, industry speakers, and career advisors — allowing you to implement programme learnings in real-world scenarios.
Transformative
The multimodular learning journey experience, including the executive reflection, allows you to learn and grow as an executive while enabling you to develop business strategies to improve your personal and organisational goals.
Participant Pathway
Throughout the learning journey of 9 to 10 months, the CSO programme will inform you through a mix of in-depth core modules and electives — providing you with solutions to business challenges your organisation confronts on a daily basis. The core modules will focus on key areas such as Global Strategy, Executive Growth Strategies & Global Leadership. After completing the core modules, you will select two online electives. During the elective period, you will dive deeper into how senior leaders can use their knowledge and skills in strategy formation and implementation to address the organisational challenges of tomorrow.
Past Participant Profiles
Engaging and Enriching Experience
Practitioner Stream
Participants will be invited to engage with executive-level practitioners, who will provide you with various perspectives and insights, based on their own experiences, as to how they had navigated personal and business challenges.
Project Stream
The success coach will drive programme engagement, addressing participant questions or concerns for assignments during the core programme, and coaching participants to apply the ideas to their own experience.
Community Stream
Engagement sessions for participants to give them opportunities within the session to learn, interact and collaborate with programme peers from various industries and regions.
The CSO Playbook
Throughout this programme, participants will complete a series of exercises as part of a CSO playbook. These exercises will prompt students to introspect on their role within a strategy domain and reimagine the application of strategic initiatives for their own organisation.
Programme Curriculum - Core Modules
Throughout the learning journey of 9 months, the CSO programme will focus on key areas such as Global Strategy, Executing Growth Strategies & Global Leadership.
Programme Curriculum - Elective Courses
After completing the core modules, you will select two online electives**. During the elective period, you will dive deeper into how senior leaders can use their knowledge and skills in strategy formation and implementation to address the organisational challenges of tomorrow.
Course 1: Digital Marketing: Strategies, Models and Frameworks
Course 2: Transforming Customer Experience: Strategies for Service Industry
Course 3: Business Analytics for Strategic Decisions
Campus Experience and Networking Event
Participants will be invited to attend a 1- Day Campus Immersion and Networking Event* (optional) at the end of the 9-month journey at NUS Business School. During this event, participants will have the opportunity to network with fellow global leaders and interact with programme faculty/directors.
Note:
*This is a majorly self-paced online programme with some live sessions with programme faculty. Post- session video recordings will be available for up to 12 months after programme completion. We have a curated panel of industry practitioners who will be conducting weekly live sessions for participants to clarify doubts.
Assignments are reviewed either by success coach who is available to support participants in their learning journey and/or by the Emeritus grading team. The final number of quizzes, assignments and discussions will be confirmed closer to the programme start.
For the on-campus networking session, participants will be responsible for making their own travel and accommodation arrangements.
**An elective can only begin with a minimum of 15 students.
Programme Completion Benefits
Access to NUS Business School Executive Education newsletters and selected electronic publications
10% savings on selected NUS Business School Executive Education programmes
Invitations to selected NUS Business School Executive Education events
Note: All benefits are subject to changes.
Programme Faculty
Professor, Strategy & Policy
Dr Andrew Delios is Professor and Vice-Dean MSc Programmes at NUS Business School. He has also been a Professor in the Department of Strategy and Policy at NUS Business School...
Associate Professor, Strategy & Policy
Dr Nitin Pangarkar received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1993. He teaches strategy and international business courses at the NUS Business School, National Univer...
Former Associate Professor, Strategy & Policy
Dr Chung Yuen Kay, Former Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore Business School’s Department of Strategy and Policy, is a sociologist by training, and ob...
Professor, Strategy & Policy
Dr Lawrence Loh is Director, Centre for Governance and Sustainability at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also Professor of Strategy and ...
Senior Lecturer, Management & Organisation
Prior to joining the university, Usa worked as a Consultant/Trainer with Mercuri International, an international business and sales consulting firm. Currently a senior lecture...
Note: Programme Faculty for the live sessions might change due to unavoidable circumstances, and revised details will be shared closer to the programme start date.
Success Coach
CEO | Global 100 professor-author grade management consultant
Adjunct faculty for trisector research-strategy-innovation-entrepreneurship for National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore Management Universit...
Certificate
Upon successful completion of the programme, participants will be awarded a verified digital certificate by NUS Business School.
Complimentary Annual Digital WSJ Membership
As a participant in the programme, you can enjoy a complimentary annual digital membership to The Wall Street Journal, giving you unlimited access to award-winning journalism across any device. From business and world news, to technology and life and arts, WSJ provides ambitious and fact-based reporting that readers can trust.
Early registrations are encouraged. Seats fill up quickly!
Flexible payment options are available.
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