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Executive Mini MBA

This unique Course provides many valuable insights, tools, tips, cases and know-how which will accelerate your ability to deal with challenging business management issues.

An Executive Mini MBA can be a wonderful alternative to the traditional MBA, and thousands of business leaders all over the world are taking advantage of this learning opportunity. If you are looking for a way to obtain new skills, learn new business tactics, brush up on modern business practices and/or interested in the possibility of proceeding to a full MBA Course, registering onto the CIC Mini MBA Course will be just right for you.

  • This Course will help you transform your career and revolutionise how you work. You will quickly develop MBA critical thinking, tactical behaviour and dynamic strategies which really work in practice.
  • You will rapidly cover and learn many MBA key management and business ideas and concepts to help guide, challenge and inspire you to better results, whatever stage you are in your career.

CIC’s Executive Mini MBA Course will guide you through all the aspects covered in a standard MBA degree course offered at any top business school. Our Mini MBA Course focuses on communicating the essence of what a standard MBA degree offers, but in format which is more accessible and which is available as a Distance Training Course for those who cannot afford the time to submit to a full time 2 or 3 year course. If you have already obtained an MBA degree, this Mini MBA Course will serve as a handy and valuable refresher course and practical exercise.

To complete the Executive Mini MBA Course you will be allowed to take up to 52 weeks if needed but it can be completed in a shorter period.  

The excellent Executive Mini MBA Course will introduce you to and challenge you in a wide range of different business and top management topics normally covered in a full MBA. It will provide you with the opportunity to learn how much there is to know about business and how to manage a business profitably. It is an exceptionally practical Course which packs a wide range of information into 12 Modules which tackle substantially the same issues as a full MBA.

You will learn the key business insights, comprehensive management practices, benchmarks, and business strategies taught in a full MBA Course - at a tiny fraction of the time and cost - from outstanding, highly qualified contributors with wide real-life business and top managerial experience. Our regularly updated Modules focus on the latest ideas in strategy, marketing, finance, business organisation and governance, risk management, critical thinking, and human resources, all of which will give you a clear advantage in today’s ever-evolving business world.

ALSO:

(1) Anybody enrolling for this Programme before 30 September 2025: will also be enrolled FREE for a Course on Strategy, Quality & Contemporary Business Concerns; the only requirement is that you provide your personal email address to the College on enrolment.

(2) If - for reasons such as “Covid-19” (Corona virus) outbreaks and lock-downs, or war, conflict or severe travel restrictions - you cannot sit an Exam, then enrolled Members may be allowed to attempt an Assignment (home-based course work) instead of sitting an Examination to complete the Program.

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This Course is intended to provide invaluable guidance for any manager looking to apply MBA thinking in the real, contemporary world.

This Course is designed to be completed rapidly - in a matter of weeks or months; it is affordable and written in a comprehensive easy-to-study style with 12 Modules. 

Syllabus/Contents outline, including:-

  • Managers, Management and MBA thinking
  1. The need for MBA-thinking managers, ways of thinking: creative, analytical, critical, etc
  2. The functions of management, responsibilities of management at all levels
  3. Managerial skills-sets, technical, human and conceptual skills
  4. Mind or conceptual mapping; uses in brainstorming, studying, decision-making, prioritising
  • MBA Thinking: Strategy & Tactics
  1. Vision and mission statements, core values, organizational culture, navigating change
  2. Environmental scanning and change, SWOT and PESTEL analysis, SMART goals
  3. Strategies and tactics, including for products, pricing, marketing, operations, finance
  4. Action plans, monitoring and control, benchmarking, business models, VMOSA
  • MBA Thinking: Managerial Planning
  1. Corporate planning, the corporate planning process
  2. Strategic management and planning, tactical, operational and contingency planning
  3. Quality, quality management, quality management systems, continuous improvement
  4. Risk assessment, plans and measures to control hazards
  • MBA Thinking: Processes & Operations 
  1. Value, value chains, value creation, value streams, customer requirements, value-added
  2. Tactical reasoning, business operations and processes, flowcharts, inputs
  3. Standard operating procedures, components of a process, transformation
  4. Standards, process control, measuring performance, timing of control
  • MBA Thinking: Control
  1. Strategic control by top-level management, the six-stage feedback model
  2. Premise control, implementation control, strategic surveillance control, special alert control
  3. Strategic audits, operational control; task, feedforward, concurrent and feedback control
  4. Financial, bottom-up, top-down control, evaluating organizational effectiveness
  • MBA Thinking: Leadership
  1. Leaders and leadership, managers and management, what defines a leader
  2. Qualities for effective leadership, communication, relationship and task-oriented leadership
  3. Effective leadership styles, situational and trait leadership, contingency approach
  4. Factors affecting business leadership, selecting a leadership style, coaching and mentoring
  • MBA Thinking: Corporate Governance
  1. Corporate entities, incorporation, limited liability, share/stockholders, board of directors
  2. Company registration, the business name, memorandum and articles of association
  3. Essentials of governance, the board’s role, directors, chairman/president, company secretary
  4. Annual returns, AGMs, auditors, financial control, managing business risk, insurance
  • MBA Thinking: Accounting & Finance
  1. Accounting data, accounting, managerial control of finances, taxation laws, reports
  2. Common terms, working capital, financial statements, accounting concepts and standards
  3. Budgets and budgetary control, importance of liquidity, cash flow, cash budgets, funds needed
  4. Credit management, interpreting final accounts
  • MBA Thinking: Human Resource
  1. Contacts with customers, touchpoints, importance of the human resource
  2. HR/personnel policy, vertical and horizontal communication, communication and motivation
  3. Conflict and conflict resolution, causes, dealing with workplace conflict
  4. Manpower planning, job analysis, recruitment strategy, induction, training, employee development
  • MBA Thinking: Operations Management
  1. Operations management, activities, processes and functions, role in supply chains
  2. Strategic, tactical and operational operations management, methods of production
  3. Production design, development strategy, mix, range, levels, costs, standards, targets
  4. Quality assurance, inspection lean production principles, waste reduction, O&M study
  • MBA Thinking: Supply Chain Management
  1. Logistics and supply chains; inbound, operational and outbound logistics, customer service
  2. Supply chains and networks; flows of materials, information, funds, cost factors
  3. Market-driven supply chains, marketing logistics, the 4Ps and marketing logistics
  4. Product distribution and delivery, prices and pricing, orders and order cycle time
  • MBA Thinking: Marketing Management
  1. The role of marketing, consumer psychology, marketing strategies and business strategy
  2. Market share, research, surveys, consumer research, test marketing, the marketing mix (7Ps)
  3. Market segmentation: demographic, psychographic, behavioural, geographic, niche markets
  4. Product life cycles (PLC), promotional mix, target audience, marketing budgets, marketing campaigns, value proposition, advertising campaigns and sales promotion campaigns

The Course Fee includes everything needed to quickly and successfully complete the Executive Mini MBA Course:

  • The complete Course Study Material in two professionally printed Study Manuals which you keep.
  • A professional study & training guide
  • A pre-Certification Test and its assessment
  • International Mini MBA Certification
  • Despatch by registered post or courier of all the items listed above 
  • Your own private pages on CIC’s special Member Services website including newsletters and results
  • Automatic acceptance on to most other CIC Courses and Study Programs leading to degrees.

ALSO: SPECIAL OFFER - valid until 30 September 2025:

The Special Offer is a free extra course on “Strategy, Quality & Contemporary Business Concerns”. (This Special Offer is only valid for new enrolments; the one requirement is that you must provide your personal email address to the College when you enrol.)

Our Executive Mini MBA Course is the quick and cost-effective way to quickly reach your next career goal and boost your employment profile. It offers you a unique opportunity to equip yourself with top level practical business and management skills which you can put to work immediately.

Our Executive Mini MBA Course has been designed specifically for managers and  professionals in corporate, government and nonprofit roles who need immediate results, and who do not wish - or cannot afford - to spend considerable time and money on a full MBA programme. 

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Payment Options:

British Pounds:
Single payment of £350
US Dollars:
Single payment of $700
Euros:
Single payment of €600
Fee payment methods

Duration & Assessments

The Course is designed to be completed in 12 to 18 weeks by spending just 3/4 hours per week on each Module, but can be completed in a shorter period.

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A certification Test is provided as part of the fee which helps ensure you have taken on board the key management and business ideas described in the Executive Mini MBA programme.

The certification Test is an-open book assignment in which you use the MBA critical thinking, tactics and strategies which you learn and come to understand through the programme.

Result

The Course will enable you to use MBA critical thinking to take your business knowledge, practice and leadership to a new level, which you can apply every day.

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