Wits Business School
Johannesburg, South Africa
http://www.wbs.ac.za/

Supply Chain Management

The supply chain is a network consisting of suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers and customers. The three key flows in a supply chain are: 1. Material flows, involving physical product flows from suppliers to customers. Returns, servicing and recycling are the flows that complete this picture. 2. Information flows, involving order transmission, tracking, delivery status and co-......
 

An overly cerebral and essentialist approach to diversity and its management has historically informed most organisational practices as well as issues around our understanding of diversity and its management. South Africa, especially post 1994, has witnessed a paradigm shift in relation to diversity and its management. The essence of this particular shift has been captured in clichés defini......
 

International business schools have recently discovered that up to 40% of their graduates start their own businesses within ten years of graduating. The first objective of the programme in New Venture Creation is to give participants an unfair advantage when it comes to identifying an opportunity and converting it into an economic success. The second objective is to create an opportunit......
 

The Internal Consulting Skills Programme offers a comprehensive induction to internal consulting theory and practice, drawing from a wide range of disciplines and cases. Our goal is for you to leave this programme with a clear understanding of all of the major steps in the internal consulting cycle, along with a practical and personal perspective on how to position yourself to optimise your......
 

This three-day workshop develops the creative and innovative capacity of participants. It is a skills development process that stimulates the break-through thinking, fresh ideas, and courageous behaviour that are at the root of profitable growth for business. The workshop brings into play a range of dynamic learning methods, including exercises, games, profiling, movies, storytelling, writi......
 

Call Centres are where sales, marketing, operations and information technology often collide in organisations. It is also the place where employees are most likely to suffer from stress and either ‘burn-out�or ‘rust-out� Call Centres can also be the ‘make or break�of a company’s image. Do you really have the right tools to manage your Call Centre? The Objectives to understand the pla......
 

Managing Global Enterprises is an innovative executive programme co-developed by INSEAD, one of the top global business schools, together with Wits Business School and other partner schools from across emerging markets. Managers from South African enterprises will have the opportunity to tap into the faculties of these two schools in one programme, designed to take advantage of a deep understa......
 

The strategic marketing five day programme presents a proactive approach which will enable participants to understand better the role of marketing directors and managers to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their organisation�marketing effort, thus improving the marketing orientation and profitability of the organisation. This programme introduces specialist knowledge and thinking n......
 

This innovative learning experience helps participants apply the principles and tools of Service Leadership© to their own organisation to produce on-site results as part of the programme. It is a four-day course spread over three months for a small corporate group of delegates. Together with classroom learning, the programme package includes in-company facilitation and targeted in-depth custome......
 

This five day practically oriented programme will enable participants to understand better the role and tasks of sales management. The course will enhance the ability of sales managers to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their sales team, thus improving the profitability of the organisation. The programme introduces the new knowledge and thinking necessary to meet the challenges of ......
 

This programme provides a systematic approach to planning, developing and controlling a product throughout its life cycle and ways to minimise risks of product failures and build brand equity. The Objectives To provide a systematic approach to analysing product policy and strategy in the South African context. This would include the product plan, new product development, product innova......
 

A good marketing plan is an essential part of a pro-active market organisation. Businesses with a strong market orientation are in continuous pursuit of customer, competitor and market intelligence, and work cross-functionally to create value-added customer solutions. Although this is an ongoing process, important benefits result directly from the process of developing a marketing plan, as well......
 

This programme explores experientially the principles underlying human behaviour of individuals and groups, and provides participants with practical skills for improving the way they interact with others. The Objectives To help participants grow through understanding themselves in relation to others to develop skills in understanding and relating to other people to utilise empathy as a......
 

Coaching within the workplace is increasingly being recognised as a powerful tool which can achieve numerous positive outcomes relative to individual employees; executives and teams; develop potential, enhance learning, improve performance; realise goals; and give impetus to change. The Effective Coaching Programme provides an overview of the major factors and issues concerned with being an......
 

A four-day full time programme. In this era of unprecedented environmental turbulence in South Africa as well as throughout Africa, it is becoming increasingly important for managers from both the public and private sectors to be able to think and plan strategically. Who should attend? This unique programme has been specifically designed to meet the needs of African middle to senior leve......
 

This three-day course equips the executive to deal with the communication demands of business. Effective communication has always been central to business success, but never has it been as critical as it is today. In a global climate of relentless competition, business advantage is often subtle and always vulnerable. It is invariably dependent on the swift, accurate dissemination of organisa......
 

“There may be born leaders, but there surely are too few to depend on them. Leadership must be learned and can be learned� says Peter Drucker, management educator, consultant and founder of the renowned Drucker Foundation. This course is a response to that vital challenge. This programme allows you to examine and enhance the effectiveness of your own leadership. It is an opportunity to study ......
 

This programme analyses the processes of organisational change and relates it to the role of leader, with particular reference to the director’s role in governance The Objectives The programme will give you an opportunity: �to develop an understanding of the key issues facing directors �to try to solve difficult problems of corporate strategy, respond effectively to complex and often c......
 

Building Corporate Resilience focuses on the practices of organisations that anticipate and adapt to change �before they get knocked over! Most definitions of resilience focus on the ability to get back up on your feet after experiencing failure. But for organisations, this is too late and too costly. Most will agree that a recovery or turnaround strategy is transformation that has been tragic......
 

This programme has integrated many years of stringent research, teaching experience and practical involvement in a vast array of negotiation situations. The predominant focus is on commercial negotiations. It has been offered as an elective on the MBA programme where it has proven to be immensely popular. Many blue chip companies have requested that the programme be offered on an in-house bas......
 

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