At HRMI: Northampton MBA - Innovation & Strategy focused

In a Harvard Business Review interview, Katsuaki Watanabe, senior advisor and former President and CEO of Toyota said, “There is no genius in our company. We just do whatever we believe is right, trying every day to improve every little bit and piece. But when 70 years of very small improvements accumulate, they become a revolution.” He said, “To create an innovative culture, managers need to make sure that all employees know that innovation is a job requirement. It should be woven into the fabric of the business and given a prominent place in job descriptions, procedures, and perfor- mance evaluations”. Over a 35-year period, Toyota’s innovation culture increased the number of annual suggestions per employee 480-fold from 0.1 to 48.

Northampton MBA is truly different from any other Masters programme offered in Sri Lanka. The focus on Strategy and Innovation is an absolutely fascinating learning experience. It is a senior management competency development programme that will provide the learning to create a culture of innovation in all levels and divisions in a company.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON UK is a globally respected and recognised institution of higher learning currently Ranked at Number 43 in the 2016 UK Guardian Ranking for Business, Management and Marketing studies. University of Northampton has partnered with Human Resource Management Institute (HRMI) Sri Lanka to offer this unique MBA to facilitate development of strategy and innovation competencies required in senior management positions.

The 11 modules at Stage 1 of the Northampton MBA extensively deals with insights into creating a culture of innovation and strategic alignment that will provide the differentiation every company needs to be competitive and distinctively different.

This 2 year MBA involves 12 months of coursework and 12 months of Research and 100% compliant with UK Quality Standards for content, duration and academic integrity. It fulfills all criteria in terms of the Qualification and Credit Framework of UK and provides 2years of learning required for international recognition and migration purposes.

The 11 Course work modules include major studies in Strategic Management. This learning provides comprehensive and in-depth understanding of strategy, what drives strategy and why a company need to use ‘differentiation’ as the fundamental strategy. The learner will understand the process of developing a strategic plan together with relevant tools and techniques. The connectivity between innovation and strategy is illustrated with many case studies.

The module on Managing Innovation focuses on the significance of creating a companywide innovation culture and what a company needs to do to establish an innovation pipeline to achieve a sustainable competitive edge.

Other modules include Strategic Marketing Management, Strategic Supply Chain Management & Logistics, Strategic Management and Leadership Skills, Strategic Change Management, Strategic Human Resource Management, Strategic Quality and Systems Management, Corporate Communication Strategies, Managing Financial Principles and Techniques and Professional Development for Strategic Managers.

HRMI offers several Qualifications leading to Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from University of Derby and University of Northampton, UK. Thus the choice of internationally recognized courses available at HRMI makes it the ‘centre of excellence for globally recognised management education’ in Sri Lanka.

Please visit: www.hrmi.lk or call 077 2204101 or 071 2724425

for details.