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How Local Context Matters
Learning Objectives
- What is special about managing a multinational organization
- Exploring the local nature of organizations
- Preparing for an international management position
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HP Singapore |
2 |
Realizing a Global Performance
Learning Objectives
- General management and collective performance
- Shaping global performance
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Nissan |
3 |
The Relevance of Organization
Learning Objectives
- The role of organization in internationalization and global integration
- Path dependence and "administrative heritage" in the multinational company
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Global Integration: The Value
Learning Objectives
- Interdependencies and complementarities across countries
- GI and the knowledge-based view of the MNC
- GI at various levels
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SAP |
5 |
Global Integration: The Challenge
Learning Objectives
- Coordination and control at a distance
- The impact of local re-contextualization
- Individual integration and national allegiance
- The process of global integration
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TEVA |
6 |
Navigating the Maze of a Globally Integrated Organization
Learning Objectives
- The "matrix" and the multidimensional organization
- The challenges of managing in a multidimensional organization
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ABB |
7 |
Managing Global Clients
Learning Objectives
- Local customers and global customers as organizational dimensions
- Gl and the global customer
- The emergence and evolution of "global account management"
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Siemens |
8 |
Managing Global Innovation
Learning Objectives
- The "knowledge architecture" of an innovation
- Globalization and the dispersion of valuable knowledge
- Global innovation: melding knowledge across nations
- Managing global innovation
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HP Singapore |
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Virtual Teamwork
Learning Objectives
- The impact of dispersion and contextual diversity
- GI and virtual teamwork
- Teamwork as process
- Leading a virtual team
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Shield |
10 |
Building the Globally Integrated Company
Learning Objectives
- The evolution of a large multinational company
- GI initiatives
- The extended global leadership team and the specific skills of global leaders
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IBM |
11 |
Creating Metanational Advantage
Learning Objectives
- Globally integrating the creation of a new strategy
- The metanational innovation process
- Mobilizing dispersed knowledge: The critical role of "magnets"
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STM |
12 |
Global Integration Going Forward
Learning Objectives
- GI: Common ground, virtual HQ, and a "garage" the size of the world
- "Think (and feel) local, act global"
- What does GI mean for incumbent multinational companies
- What does GI mean for companies from "emerging economies"
- What does GI mean for startups
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