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IMD Partnership Programs are consistently ranked among the best in the world. What has been the reason for this?
IMD’s revamped will give visitors the opportunity to learn about the expertise and process that goes into IMD’s custom program design and delivery. The new site also unveils how leading companies such as Carrefour, Mars and Vestas have benefited from IMD’s Partnership Programs, as well as how specific Faculty members have worked with organizations to produce desired results.
“Companies are trying to get to the top of their respective mountains,” stated Michael Stanford, Executive Director for IMD’s Partnership Programs. “However, they face internal and external challenges. IMD helps build the capabilities to improve companies’ fitness.”
IMD partners with companies in climbing their respective mountains through the following five-stage process:
- Exploration and discovery: learning about the client
- Focus: providing focus on the key, must-win battles
- Design: created together with the respective companies
- Delivery: execution of program
- Renewal: implementation of mechanism to understand impact
IMD also partners with organizations to achieve immediate business results through catalyst work.
Here’s how some IMD Faculty members describe Partnership Programs:
“Our special touch is in understanding clients and their needs.” – , IMD Professor of Leadership and Organization
“IMD is unique in the combination between teaching, research and consultancy. You cannot find such a combination of these three things together in any other business school in the world.” – Nuno Fernandes, IMD Professor of Finance
“There is no ivory tower in Lake Geneva. This place is buzzing with interaction between all the different groups involved in the creation of interventions.” – , IMD Professor of Leadership, Organization and Corporate Learning
“Our relationship with partners is about what we collectively want to achieve together. The whole school is built around the ability to say ‘what is the desired outcome’ and then assemble the bits and pieces that enable us to reach that goal.” – , IMD Professor of Technology Management
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