IIM Lucknow - Advanced Programme In Strategy For Leaders (APSL)

Synopsis

Strategic leadership is a leader’s ability to visualize, plan, lead, and make the best out of the resources they have to execute strategies efficiently and successfully. Organisations around the globe are looking for strategic leaders in order to reinvent operational practices, mitigate risks, scale the business to a new level. IIM Lucknow’s Advanced Programme in Strategy for Leaders (APSL) polishes your skills to help you emerge as a strategic leader. The course will help you develop a detailed understanding of how to make the best use of your current skills with the necessary vision to make systemic changes to the way your organisation moves forward.

Advanced Programme in Strategy for Leaders
The Advanced Programme in Strategy for Leaders from IIM Lucknow is a comprehensive programme designed to impart core knowledge and skills required to lead a business or organisation from a strategy perspective. The curriculum will expose participants to basic concepts and framework of strategy and help them learn strategy formulation at different levels of an organisation. Further, participants will be taught to link strategy formulation and strategy implementation and acquire in-depth insights into advanced topics in strategy.

Strategy
A business strategy is a set of guiding principles that when communicated and adopted in the organisation, generates a desired pattern of decision-making. (Harvard Business Review)

A coherent strategy is what separates a successful organisation from others. However, executing an organisational strategy to perfection is a team effort front-ended by leaders.

“Strategy is nothing without effective leaders to execute.”

In contemporary organisations, there are two major strategic roles of leaders:

• Outlining the organisational strategy, i.e., Strategy Formulation
• Developing systems and processes to ensure strategy realisation, i.e., Strategy Implementation

• Contextually designed 11-month programme for working professionals
• Campus immersion module of 3 days
• Focus on real business use cases
• Peer-learning & networking opportunities
• IIM Lucknow Executive Education Alumni status

This programme enables participants to understand concepts like:

• The meaning of strategy and relevance of strategic decisions
• Conceptual framework in strategic management
• Strategy types, formulation, and implementation
• Strategy in organisational and functional context
• Change management and transformation

• Graduate or equivalent (10+2+3) or Diploma (10+2+3 or 10+2+4) or post-graduate with minimum 50% aggregate marks of all years
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience.

• * Internships and training experiences are not considered as fulltime work experience

Students would be selected on the basis of their application forms and the statement of purpose submitted along with their applications.

The programme content comprises the following modules.

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• Certificate of Successful Completion – To qualify for Certificate of Successful Completion, following criteria needs to be fulfilled:

• 1. Each participant is expected to have 75% & above attendance for successful completion certificate.
• 2. COPM (Cumulative Overall Percentage of Marks) 50% and above.

• If student does not fulfil any of the above criteria, then he/she will be given “Certificate of Participation” from IIML. “No Certificate” if attendance is less than 40%.

Sample Certificate

Fee Particulars	Amount (in )
Application Fee	2,500 + GST
Programme Fee	2,50,000 + GST
IIML Executive Alumni Fee	10,000 + GST
Total Fees (Inclusive Application Fee and Alumni Fee)	2,62,500+ GST
NOTE: Note:   *GST as per prevailing rate is applicable & will be collected additionally from the candidate/participant. Current GST rate is 18%. IIML Executive Alumni Fee (One-time registration fee and which is optional) of Rs. 10,000 + GST* is to be paid by participants directly to IIM Lucknow after successful completion of the programme. Collection of all above fees, except for Executive Alumni fees, will be done by BCCL Processing fee is ₹10,000/- which includes 2,500/- towards application fee and ₹7,500/- towards the part of the course fees. Processing fee of ₹10,000/- is refundable, in case the participant’s profile is rejected by IIM Lucknow Please Note: The Processing Fee shall not be refunded in the following circumstances: Note: This is with reference to the refund of the Processing Fees, please note that the Processing Fee shall not be refunded in the following circumstances: i. In case candidate rejects the offer issued by the Institute; and ii. In case the application is rejected due to submission of incomplete documents and/or providing incomplete information and/or eligibility criteria not fulfilled Note – For Foreign candidates, the cost of dispatching study material Note – For Foreign candidates, the cost of dispatching study material will be borne by them.
No. of Installments -Total amount to be paid in 3 installments.
Instalment No.	Amount (in )
1st Instalment	7,500+77,500
2nd Instalment	82,500
3rd Instalment	82,500
Timeline and Dates
Application Closure Date	15-May-2022
Academic Orientation Date	13-Aug-2022
Tentative Programme End Date	18-Jul-2023

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• The course will be taught with the help of case studies, live corporate examples and discussions. In order to provide greater industry insights, business leaders from different industries may be invited to share their experiences.

• Comprehensive case analysis and presentation on strategy
• Session specific case analysis and presentation
• The candidates will submit the business plan/strategy at the end of second module. Submitted plan/strategy to be implemented during third module. A report shall be prepared, presented, and discussed during the campus module
• Project(s) will be done in groups of three or four participants

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