General details CranfieldBedfordBedfordshireMK43 0ALUnited Kingdom Tel: 01234 751122 Email: Click here Website
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Status Business School
Accreditation & Recognition AACSBEQUISFT RankedUNICONAMBA
Date established 1967
Services available
Languages of instruction English
Cranfield School of Management has been at the forefront of executive education for over 40 years and is consistently ranked as one of the top providers in the UK and the world. By bringing together world-class faculty and business leaders with the very latest research, the school delivers programmes that are challenging, innovative and highly stimulating.
Whatever industry or country you are from, whatever stage you have reached in your management career, we have an Open Executive Programme for you. We have one of the world’s largest portfolios of programmes, and enjoy global recognition. We have around 50 Open Programmes, each designed with success in mind. They range from our flagship General Management Programmes and our highly respected personal development programmes, through to our expert functional programmes in supply chain and logistics, marketing, human resources, operations management and much more. The breath of the portfolio is matched by its depth: you will find intellectual rigour, and a determination to see that rigour put into practical use. Our world-class reputation in executive education is built on our dedication to improving business performance and inspiring today’s and tomorrow’s business leaders. The programmes run through the year, providing access to the latest thinking from the school, and the opportunity to meet and network with a diverse group of peers from all over the world.
What makes a good Open Programme great? It is the people with whom you share it – both your fellow participants, and those leading it. Our faculty is world-respected. Leaders in their chosen fields, actively engaged in consultancy and business relevant research, they are closely in touch with the needs of business and government. They are committed to practicality, which means they are consistently current and topical in their teaching. Our faculty come with strong backgrounds in their own world of business. They understand your challenges. They have are faced them themselves, and they can help you do the same. The increasing diversity of our faculty, from across the world, ensure that they have a global perspective.
Every year, people from as many as 115 different countries come to Cranfield School of Management. Their shared experience, and the international experience represented by our own faculty members, makes a fundamental difference to the programmes we offer. In some cases, such as supply chain and logistics programmes, this global scope is of direct relevance, which is why several of our programmes attract a high number of international participants. This shared experience broadens everyone’s frame of reference. It enables them to draw distinctions, and to make comparisons.
We provide a learning environment that is second to none. The quality of our accommodation, IT and library facilities, respondents told the FT, is unrivalled. The Cranfield Management Development Centre is our purpose-built residential and management facility. The facilities have been designed to create an environment that is conducive to effective learning while providing the high standard of accommodation expected by global business managers. Our class sizes mean that you will receive all the individual attention and time you require in order to benefit from a genuinely transformative learning experience. This also means that you will really get to know other like-minded executives on the programme who are from diverse industries and geographies.
The Cranfield Management Research Institute (CMRI) houses the School of Management's twelve research centres plus its internationally renowned and ESRC accredited doctoral programmes. It enhances our tradition of bringing together our outstanding faculty with forward-thinking practitioners to create novel research agendas, undertake ground-breaking research, and develop enduring knowledge, innovative practice and customised solutions. In December 2008 the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) rated 90% of Cranfield School of Management's research output as ‘internationally recognised’ or better, 40% as ‘internationally excellent’ and 25% as ‘world leading’. The results of this assessment confirm the School’s position as being among the leading research centres for Business and Management in the UK. The twelve research centres are: · Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurial Performance and Economics · Centre for Business Performance · Centre for Executive Learning and Leadership · Centre for Innovative Products and Services · Centre for Research in Economics and Finance · Centre for Strategic Marketing and Sales (formerly Centre for Advanced Research in Marketing) · Complex Systems Research Centre · Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility · Information Systems Research Centre · International Centre for Programme Management · International Centre for Women Leaders · Supply Chain Research Centre
Cranfield School of Management is a world-class university business school, renowned for its high quality teaching and research and strong links with industry and business. It is one of an elite group of business schools worldwide to hold the prestigious triple EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA accreditations.
With over 21 years experience, Cranfield’s Centre for Customised Executive Development (CCED) is widely recognised as a world-leader in tailored executive development.
The centre offers a complete development process that includes: strategic consultancy, organisational and individual diagnostics, assessment and development centres and world-class programme design and delivery. Interventions are highly customised to client needs and often integrate on-line and networked learning, business simulations and real-life project work.
The Centre partners with clients in a variety of ways: working with top teams on strategy formulation; supporting organisation development and talent management initiatives; developing functional expertise and building leadership and management capability.
Working with more than 60 corporate and public sector clients each year, CCED has strong relationships with many UK and international organisations including: Orange- France Telecom Group, Cable & Wireless, Mott MacDonald, L’Oréal, Electricité de France, Oracle, Atkins, Shell, Bertelsmann, GKN Driveline, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Amadeus, Sellafield Ltd, the Ministry of Defence, and the National Health Service.
Cranfield is widely recognised as a world leader in customised executive development. In the Financial Times Executive Education Rankings 2009, Cranfield was:
Ranked by clients as one of the top 2 UK business school for customised executive development.
Ranked No.1 in the UK, and in the top 5 European Schools, for programme preparation and follow-up; teaching methods and materials; the quality of faculty and the relevance of new skills and learning.
Ranked in the top 3 Business Schools worldwide for the international scope of our customised development activities.
We offer a complete customised executive development service that includes strategic and organisational development consultancy, organisational and individual diagnostics and world-class programme design and delivery.
Clients can draw on our extensive expertise in assessment and development centres, competency framework development, psychometric evaluation, 360 feedback and coaching, as well as our range of business simulations.
Innovative use of technology - Challenges of time pressure and geography are alleviated through the use of the latest online and networked learning technologies. Our investment in the Knowledge Interchange Online means our clients can access Cranfield expertise from anywhere in the world.
Business Impact - A critical measure of success is the extent to which our clients apply their new learning in the workplace. Interventions are designed to maximise application from the start. This may be through pre-programme preparation, project work during and between modules, or live investigation of organisational issues during the programme supported by Cranfield faculty.
Our work with clients - We work with more than 60 clients each year. Examples include:
Customised management development at Cranfield makes full use of the knowledge, skills and experience of both partners. We seek to understand your organisation, what you want to achieve and what you want your managers to do differently.
We gain this understanding by initial research with key internal stakeholders. This enables us to recognise your key challenges and to identify the desired development outcomes. This research feeds into the final design and informs the most appropriate methodology for delivery. We work with you to design the programme methodology and content.
Our philosophy is one of learning rather than teaching. We endeavour to make our programmes highly relevant, meaningful and stimulating by developing learning events that match the realities of participants working lives. It is our proven ability to transfer knowledge into relevant and practical learning that makes the fundamental difference to the way in which learning is transferred to the workplace.
Why choose Cranfield for customised executive development?
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Abu Dhabi Environment Agency Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development Actavis Acergy African Development Bank ANZ Bank AMEC Atkins BAE Systems Bertelsmann Cable & Wireless International Carlson Wagonlit EDF EMC Computer Systems Emhart Glass Emirates Etisalat GKN Driveline Groupe Aeroplan
Henkel Institute of Fundraising Jaguar Land Rover KLM Royal Dutch Airlines L & Q Group L’Oréal Ministry of Defence Mott MacDonald NHS South West Orange France-Telecom Group PepsiCo Rank Group Royal Dutch Shell Sellafield Ltd Sony Swiss Re The Law Society Veolia Water UK Wärtsilä
Acergy Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators (CATA) EDF Group Henkel L'Oreal Mott MacDonald Oracle Sellafield Stewart Milne Xaar
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Leadership development - Change management - Negotiation - Cultural change - Organizational development - Strategy - Finance - Accounting - Marketing strategy - Innovation - Corporate governance - Public sector / non-profit sector.
December 2010 High Performance Leadership (Taster) - Cranfield School of Management's Praxis Centre will be presenting a free taster of their popular "High Performance Leadership" program to interested executives next month. Read story...
