EXECUTIVE EDUCATION MANAGEMENT CONTROL

Students attending the course will acquire the necessary skills to design and implement a strategic management system, with a view to the implementation of the strategy. With a clear influence of the latest developments in management control systems, the course starts with the basics of strategic management oriented to execution. Strategy, organisation and leadership will be covered as elements whose preliminary assessment is crucial to the success of strategic execution.
The second part of the course explores in detail the techniques for planning and evaluation of strategic performance, integrated strategy control systems, aligning incentives and rewards of human resources and how to strategically manage risk. The approach is broad, from traditional models, including the most recent models of adaptive systems to change, to integrated management of business risks.

The methodology will consist of the exposure of theoretical concepts underlying the theme and its practical operation using case studies to argue among teachers and students.
Throughout the course there is still the possibility to carry out advanced seminars, with specialised external guests, introducing the latest developments of management control systems to issues such as corporate governance, corporate management of groups of companies, innovation, internationalisation and new organisational architectures in enterprise collaboration environment.
Throughout the course it is intended that students perform a project "Diagnosis and Improvement Action Plan" a management control system in real context. At the end of the course, the project will be presented and discussed critically with the teaching team.

Managers, controllers, financial directors and other professionals involved in the process of planning or strategy execution.

CANDIDATES PROFILE
Applicants must have a high education degree. Candidates who do not have this requirement may be accepted provided their background and knowledge acquired by professional experience justify such admission. The process of selection and ranking of candidates will be done according to the requirements defined in the Regulation governing this training and always based on curricular and professional judgment, taking into account the submission order of the respective applications.