Developing new management approaches can help you effectively mobilize and support your organizations as they reinvent themselves with a view to achieving your ambitions and strategic objectives. 

This program, which includes several key topical themes, including financial engineering, opportunities in the global capital market, and keys in the quest for new value creation, is designed to help executives and officials master methodological reference systems and top-notch tools, acquire new expertise, enhance their impact, and coordinate and steer the dynamics of success.

Objective(s)

The course focuses on developing the efficiency and skills to enable executives and top officials to better grasp the digital environment in all its dimensions. It highlights knowledge on innovative financing activities and digital business model development. More specifically, it focuses on: 

• Driving performance in terms of strategic vision, value creation, and engagement,
• Navigating the strategic contours of new financial technologies, including digital business model development,
• Anticipating crypto-currency development and the spread of distributed ledger technology,
• Connecting to new and innovative financing, and
• Implementing a strategic vision in banking.

Teaching methods

The training will be led by experts from HEC Paris. Special emphasis will be placed on use of information and communication technologies, including online classes, through the following methods:

• Alternating theory, group work and virtual classroom discussions,
• Remote training using specially designed teaching modules,
• Experience sharing and exchanges of best practices, cross-cutting case studies based on data and concerns submitted by the participants, and
• Success stories from top executives and senior officials.

The course is taught over several months to facilitate in-depth learning through the consolidation of acquired knowledge, as well as intensive training during each module to ensure that the concepts are thoroughly assimilated.

The 2024 edition of the course will include an innovation new feature: participants will prepare a "concept note" to be defended in the form of a dissertation before a jury made up of senior officials from institutions. The dissertations are to be examined at the end of the course, in person, in Dakar

Participant profile

This course targets strategic players in the value chain of the banking and financial system as well as operational executives and department directors in the private and public sectors:

• Managers and managers of banking establishments;
• Managers and managers of companies and public structures;
• Members of the Management Committee;
• Department managers;
• High potentials.

Curriculum

• Module 1: STRATEGIC CHANGE
• Module 2: EXPERTISE IN FINANCE
• Module 3: DIGITAL STRATEGY
• Module 4: LEADERSHIP
• Module 5: STRATEGIC RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (simulation)

Dissertation defense (november 29th, 2024)

Attendance at all modules and completion of strategic group work will be presented to a jury at the end of the course. Which will validate eligibility for HEC Paris certification