As your knowledge partner, Wharton dedicates the time necessary to understand your particular organizational needs and draws from a wealth of resources in developing and delivering customized solutions.
Our faculty are experienced in working directly with leading A&D companies and defense policy-makers, delivering real-world, real-time knowledge and subject matter expertise to the classroom. A network of seasoned industry professionals, including consultants, executives, and subject-matter experts, also brings the appropriate experience and background to our clients.
Built around your specific organizational issues and objectives, the program we design for you can help your team in several areas:
Value Creation:
- Gain financial management tools that make value creation possible in an environment of shrinking markets, hypercompetition, and diminishing margins.
- Adopt strategies for capitalizing on financial and nonfinancial factors that contribute to value creation.
- Learn how companies attempt to create shareholder value and why they succeed or fail.
- Acquire skills for making informed decisions on issues such as debt, capital expenditures, and mergers and acquisitions.
- Demystify the process of creating shareholder value and a cost-of-capital culture within a company.
Innovation:
- Learn about the dynamic process of continually creating new business models, improving customer experience, and opening new markets — as well as launching new products.
- Capitalize on the sweet spot between emerging trends, organizational capabilities, and unmet market needs with custom solutions designed by Wharton’s thought-leading faculty such as George Day and Paul Schoemaker, who wrote the ground-breaking books Decision Traps, Market Driven Strategy, and Peripheral Vision.
- Achieve a broad, well-grounded view of innovation that addresses not just products, but also the design of innovation ecologies.
Alliances:
- Develop strategies to create and sustain effective internal and external partnerships.
- Benefit from access to Wharton’s extensive research on alliance success factors.
- Acquire tools for improving the design, performance, and value creation of alliances using confirmed best practices; avoid costly or damaging mistakes by identifying potential pitfalls.
- Build frameworks for analyzing the strategic, organizational, and cultural fit among partners.
- Learn effective conflict resolution, and how to manage the evolution of alliances.
- Create a new process for initiating the various stages of formulating, negotiating, managing, and evaluating alliances.
- Position your firm as a preferred alliance partner by building on your collaborative capabilities.
Globalization:
- Learn how to execute and manage acquisitions in other countries.
Leadership:
- Develop leadership skills in an engineering culture.
