PROGRAM

Marketing Directors' Programme

Course Dates:

27/04/2020 To 29/04/2020

Cost:

GBP £ 4190

Language of Instruction:

English

Over the past three decades, Cranfield has focused on developing the marketing function and believes that marketing has a critical strategic role to play. Done properly, strategic marketing can contribute enormously to organisational performance.

That knowledge and expertise is captured in our Marketing Directors’ Programme, designed specifically for you to organise the marketing function into a potent strategic contributor to the business.

This flagship programme is not about the next breakthrough in marketing communications, or how to use big data and ever better marketing planning tools. Rather, it addresses the core of the marketing director role: how to lead and implement strategic marketing change so as to deliver even greater value to your organisation.

The programme is delivered by Cranfield’s most senior academics including:

Emeritus Professor Malcolm MacDonald, the world’s most celebrated strategic marketing planning thought leader.
Dr David Butcher, Cranfield’s Director of Executive Programmes and advisor to numerous FTSE 100 boards.
Professor Hugh Wilson, voted one of Britain’s most influential marketing thinkers and a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and other high impact journals.
Professor Stan Maklan, CRM expert and Cranfield’s leader in Big Data Marketing Analytics.

What you will learn

You will gain:

Renewed understanding of the latest strategic marketing thinking.
New core competences to meet your business challenges.
Improved ability to collaborate across the organisation to deliver growth, innovation and customer led solutions.
Greater influence with the board.
Improve credibility and accountability.

Your organisation will gain:

Renewed focus on breakthrough innovation and customer focus.
The ability to transform customer experience into a strategic asset and develop defining competitive advantage.
Integration between the marketing and corporate strategy to support sustained organisational growth.
Improved strategic planning.

Core content

The Marketing Directors’ Programme is a three-day residential taking place at Cranfield School of Management.

Taught by a faculty with extensive experience in business, you will benefit from the creative practices, diverse ideas, and success methods used to overcome challenges that your peers and Cranfield’s faculty have faced working in a range of sectors.

The pragmatic design of the programme bolsters your ability to organise and create a strategic agenda for growth, innovation and market-led leadership within your organisation. The programme covers three main themes over three days:

Strategic marketing: a board level perspective.
Generating growth: breakthrough innovation.
Building a coalition for customer-led change: power, politics and influence.

The flagship Marketing Directors’ Programme provides insight and practical guidance needed for strategic direction. By the end of the programme, you will be a more effective marketing leader with the credibility and confidence to drive new growth opportunities and bolster innovation strategies. You will learn about state-of-the-art models to: