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MCE Mini MBA

Get equipped with the practical, operational and managerial skills you need to become a great manager & boost your career.

The Key Issues

Working in a B2B industry, you probably have a specialist background in engineering, logistics, project management or sciences. But the next step of your career is managing a team. But at university, you didn’t learn much about people management, finance & budgeting, marketing & sales and other key business areas. So you need to get these practical skills fast if you are going to progress in your career.

Leadership

Strategy
execution

Business
finance

Key Competences

Supply chain
management

Marketing & Sales

Change
management

The Right Programme for You

You are a specialist with a technical, engineering or a scientific background. You are an expert in your area and have been promoted to a management role in the last few years. You need to get a good understanding of key management skills fast.

Highlights

Get the basics of a Mini MBA in just 5 days or 12 online sessions.

Use a powerful “Business Simulation” throughout the week. The simulation covers 5 years in a company and your goal is to maximize profitability and ROCE. Investment decisions have to be made to manage growth and build competitive advantage.

Cover the key areas of Leadership, Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Sales and Supply Chain Management.

Learn, Practice and Use

Understand how a company really works with a multi-functional overview of business and key leadership competences you need in your role
Develop strategic thinking, planning and execution skills at a divisional or functional level, using the right tools and frameworks
Influence, enable and deliver wider organizational strategies

Be able to analyse the business environment and translate changes into competitive strategies for sustainable growth
Support strategic goals from top management and be able to translate them for your area an implement them more efficiently
Make better business decisions and improve your contribution to the business

Programme Details

The MCE 5-Day Mini MBA focuses on the following 5 key areas:

Leadership Development – key competences, building self awareness, leading others and the organization through change. This also includes self profiling, daily reflection and feedback from the facilitators and peers to develop emotional intelligence
Strategy – building a strategy (the changing world and its impact, internal analysis, differentiation etc), and strategy execution (organizational and individual)
Business Finance – the fundamentals that underpin business success including Profit & Loss, Balance Sheets, Cash Flow and Investment decision-making
Marketing & Sales– knowing the customer (needs and segmentation) and achieving success with the customer (targeting, Customer Value Proposition, sales etc)
Supply Chain – its importance in delivering the Customer Value Proposition

A Business Simulation will be used throughout the programme and will cover activities of five financial reporting years.

You will work in teams of 3 to 4 people and your objective will be to maximise profitability and ROCE over the strategic 5 year period.

Five Programme Modules

1 | Leadership

Competency framework and organizational success
Leadership characteristics
Emotional Intelligence and personal insights discovery
Leadership & Management
Business simulation: building business awareness

2 | Strategy & Marketing

Strategy roadmap & competitive strategy
Blue Ocean Thinking
Innovation
Customer centricity
Marketing & sales – essential principles
Business simulation: strategic thinking & framing

3 | Marketing, Supply Chain & Business Models

Market segmentation, targeting and positioning
Marketing mix and branding
Supply chain
Business models
Financial statements – profit & loss statement (P&L)
Business simulation: finance & strategy implementation

4 | Financial Statements & Analysis Investment Appraisal

Financial statements – balance sheet
Financial statements – cash flow
Financial ratios
Investment appraisal principles
Investment appraisal – practice
Business simulation: finance (continued) & competitive position

5 | Strategy Execution & Consolidation

Finalization of the business simulation
Strategy execution
Phoenix case study
Leading change (change management)
Wrap up (including simulation winners)
Action plan and closing

Faculty

Bettina
Hausmann

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

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5 days

€3,995

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Date

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Location

Stage

17 Mar – 21 Mar 2025

Brussels

Industrious Brussels

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MCE Mini MBA

The Key Issues

Leadership

Strategy execution

Business finance

Key Competences​

Supply chain management

Marketing & Sales

Change management

The Right Programme for You

Highlights

Use a powerful “Business Simulation” throughout the week. The simulation covers 5 years in a company and your goal is to maximize profitability and ROCE. Investment decisions have to be made to manage growth and build competitive advantage.

Cover the key areas of Leadership, Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Sales and Supply Chain Management.

Learn, Practice and Use

Programme Details

Five Programme Modules

Faculty

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

BettinaHausmann

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Upcoming Programmes

Contact Us

Contact Us

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

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Business
finance

Key Competences

Supply chain
management

Change
management

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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