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MBA Strategic Thinking for Pharma and Biopharma Professionals Training Course

Working in the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry, with ever-increasing change and pressure, is probably one of the most challenging managerial roles of any industry today.

★★★★★ "The speaker was very well prepared and knowledgeable on the subject."

25-26 April 2024
+ 3-4 October 2024 »

from £799

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Course overview

Working in the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry, with ever-increasing change and pressure including the impact of COVID-19, is probably one of the most challenging managerial roles of any industry today.

This MBA strategic thinking workshop has been especially designed to help you transcend these challenges by training you to become equipped to see the bigger picture in all aspects of your role. This two day interactive workshop will provide practical strategic thinking tools taught on MBAs to apply to your role. It will help you build your strategic thinking skills to guide the direction of your teams, develop strategies to key pharma and biopharma business problems, create a vision for the future, and implement strategic thinking within your team. You will gain new ways of thinking, making choices and implementing them using ‘Helicopter’ or ‘Strategic Thinking’. You will be able to implement what you have learnt on the course and immediately apply this into the workplace.

The workshop will focus on a number of areas in the pharmaceutical industry using MBA strategic business cases.

Key areas covered:

  • What is MBA ‘strategy’ & ‘strategic thinking’ - and the importance of this within the pharma and biopharma industry during?
  • Building strategic plans for your teams, group and/or organisation
  • Application to pharma case studies, your issues and at a departmental, and individual level
  • How to use the MBA strategic thinking tool-kit

This training course is part of our collection of Leadership & Management Training Courses which focus on leadership, innovation, strategy, communication, finance, problem solving and conflict management, to name a few key areas.

Who should attend?

All those in the pharmaceutical industry who make strategic choices, and who feel that they could rise to future challenges by being more strategic, behaviourally skilled, and creative. Managers who are keen to be able to deliver strategy more easily and to then evaluate its effectiveness - whether technical or commercial.

This is particularly relevant to heads of teams/departments, those responsible for leading a project, or those in roles attempting to influence other areas of their organisation, especially in matrix management.

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The MBA Strategic Thinking for Pharma and Biopharma Professionals course will cover:

Introduction and objectives

What is strategy and strategic thinking?

    • Helicopter thinking
    • The importance of strategy for the pharmaceutical industry
    • The Strategy Process and tool strategic kit used on MBAs

Environmental analysis

    • Strategy tools  
    • Competitive analysis
    • Case study in the pharmaceutical industry

Critical thinking

    • Definition
    • Critical thinking model and Application

Generating and evaluating Strategic Options

    • Creativity for generating options
    • Evaluating strategic options
    • Pharma case study continued

Strategy Implementation

    • Strategic project implementation 
    • Leadership
    • Change management (pharma case study)

Behavioural

    • Effective and strategic communication (pharma case study)
    • Managing stakeholders including politics and influencing agendas
    • Behaving strategically

Evaluation

    • Monitoring implementation
    • Performance drivers and indicators
    • Problem diagnosis

Application

    • Business plan structure
    • How to apply the strategic tools following the course

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Laura Brown
LB Training and Development Ltd

Dr Laura Brown MBA is an independent Pharmaceutical Training and Management Consultant, and visiting lecturer at Cranfield School of Management, a leading European business school. Laura has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 25 years. She has facilitated strategy development for a number of teams in the pharmaceutical industry.

Laura has also co-authored several books on strategy and related areas including “Be Your Own Strategy Consultant”, “Value-Based HR Strategy”, “Strategic Project Management” and “Pharmaceutical Project Management”.

More details

NEW higher discounts for multiple bookings - bring your colleagues to make your training budget go further:

  • 30% off the 2nd delegate*
  • 40% off the 3rd delegate*
  • 50% off the 4th delegate*

Please contact us for pricing if you are interested in booking 5 or more delegates

25-26 April 2024

Live online

09:30-16:30 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:30-17:30 Paris (UTC+02)
04:30-11:30 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 13661

  • GBP 999
  • EUR 1,439
  • USD 1,639

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3-4 October 2024

Live online

09:30-16:30 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:30-17:30 Paris (UTC+02)
04:30-11:30 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 13898

  • GBP 799 999
  • EUR 1,159 1,439
  • USD 1,327 1,639

Until 29 Aug

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* Early booking discounts may not be combined with other discounts or offers. As such, the discounts for 2nd/3rd/4th delegates are based on the full price; and apply only when booking multiple delegates on the same date.

Reviews of IPI's MBA Strategic Thinking for Pharma and Biopharma Professionals training course


The speaker was very well prepared and knowledgeable on the subject.

Jan 29 2024

Brent Nelson
Director, Analytical R&D/QC, Renaissance Lakewood, LLC.

Denmark

  • Novo
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Novo Nordisk A/S
  • NovoNordisk A/S

United Kingdom

  • Bio Products Laboratory
  • Cherry Advertising
  • Kyowa Kirin

Germany

  • Cheplapharm
  • Cheplapharm Arzneimittel GmbH

Spain

  • Dentaid SL
  • FAES FARMA S.A.

Ireland

  • Chiesi Farmaceutici

Poland

  • GSK

Sweden

  • Camurus

United States of America

  • Renaissance Lakewood, LLC.

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Multiple colleagues? See above for details of our discounts for 2, 3, or 4 delegates. For more, talk to one of our training experts to discuss how to:

Run this course conveniently and cost-effectively in-house for your staff and colleagues

Aleksandra Beer

Aleksandra BEER
Training expert

Yesim Nurko

Yesim NURKO
Training expert

+44 (0)20 7749 4749

inhouse@ipi.academy