Mastering Entrepreneurship

Course Introduction

This Mastering Entrepreneurship training course is aimed at taking entrepreneurs, corporate venturing executives, and others involved in entrepreneurial environments to the next level of their professional development. The emphasis of this training course is on leveraging creativity, innovation & strategy to optimize the results in the marketplace.

The purpose of this comprehensive training course is to assist you in developing or enhancing your ability to lead and manage new developments while sustaining excellent results. It provides practical skills to take back to your areas of responsibility, along with insights needed to adapt the principles to every industry.

Successful entrepreneurs combine and leverage innovation, creativity, strategy, leadership, operations, marketing and finance to optimize potential opportunities. This includes:

• Designing a strategic planning process to achieve lasting change
• Implementing a culture of “continuous improvement”
• Understanding creativity and using specific tools to gain the best results
• Harnessing innovation so that the outputs deliver impact
• Applying best practice principles to develop high-value activities

Objectives

The concepts, tools and frameworks covered in this Oxford Management Centre training course will enable participants to:

• Create, identify, and evaluate new venture opportunities
• Start and build a successful company
• Leverage new science and technologies from corporate or university laboratories
• Create and build high-value companies to be globally successful
• Balance innovation and risk to optimize results

Training Methodology

The training course leader will deploy a full range of dynamic and interactive training methods. This will comprise a carefully balanced mix of conventional teaching, supported by real examples and case experience of individual issues.

In addition delegates will be given the chance to work in groups on case studies to apply new skills in the key aspects of this subject.  Above all, the training course leader will illustrate the main learning points with examples of real-life situations in which he has been personally involved.

Organisational Impact

The organization will benefit by:

• Having experts in-house to develop entrepreneurial opportunities
• Achieving higher productivity of personnel involved in these ventures
• Improved performance of corporate partners
• Better ways to plan and measure results of entrepreneurial decisions
• Realizing how to optimize options when facing opportunities and choice
• Better integration between functional areas leading to better decisions

Personal Impact

The delegate will benefit by:

• Developing an improved understanding of the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship
• Knowing how to evaluate the risks and rewards of innovation
• Being able to calculate the strategic and financial value of an investment
• Understanding to cost / benefit of a decision
• Enhancing their knowledge with the use of business models and case studies
• Understanding the link between operations, marketing and finance to entrepreneurial success

Who Should Attend?

This Oxford Management Centre Mastering Entrepreneurship training Course is designed for all those who want to enhance, update, and refine their entrepreneurial skills. It is also very applicable to aspiring entrepreneurs, corporate “intrapreneurs”, corporate venture officers, and those who would like to develop or strengthen the skills and enhance the climate of innovation and/or entrepreneurship in their organizations.

• Corporate Finance Officers
• Strategic Planners
• Accounting
• Lenders
• Investors
• Merger and Acquisition Specialists
• Corporate Officers
• Commercial and investment bankers
• Securities Analysts
• Private Equity Specialists
• Asset Managers
• And other individuals whose professional future may be enhanced by an understanding of development through innovative entrepreneurial activity

Course Outline

Day 1

Understanding the Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Day 2

Building and Validating Ventures

Day 3

Leadership and Organizational Culture

Day 4

Bullet Header: Finance for Entrepreneurs

Day 5

Scaling and Exit Strategies