Capstones

Leading People Globally aims to give you both theoretical and practical understanding of what is required to lead people in organisations, whether in Asia or globally, where cultures and practices may be similar or differ.

Through a combination of lectures, activities, and case studies that will engage you in real-world learning and application, this leadership-focused course builds awareness and skills in four key areas:

Leadership

You will be able to build self-awareness to strengthen your leadership effectiveness. Designed for participants with some managerial experience, it focuses on enhancing your ability to lead with greater impact. You will be better equipped to influence, inspire, and create a positive impact within your teams and organisation.

Negotiation

This module is designed to allow you to have a deeper understanding of your own negotiation strengths and weaknesses, and to equip you with the tools and framework for analysing and preparing for negotiations. Not many objectives in life can be achieved unilaterally. To get things done, you often need to obtain the agreement and cooperation of other people or organisations. Negotiation is therefore essential not only in a professional or business context, but also in social and personal settings. This course is appropriate for anyone who would like to improve their negotiation capabilities in order to achieve professional and/or personal success. On the professional front, this course will help you hone the negotiation skills so crucial for success in leadership roles and in dealings with internal as well as external parties.

Talent Management

People are at the heart of every successful organisation. In today’s global, digital, and knowledge-driven economy, managing talent effectively is more important than ever. Leaders need to ensure that their workforce’s skills and behaviours align with business goals and a constantly evolving environment—this is the essence of talent management. This course introduces the fundamentals of talent management and explores how human capital can drive competitive advantage. It examines the key challenges and opportunities organisations face when managing their people, and equips participants with practical tools to evaluate and design effective talent strategies in a competitive, knowledge-based landscape.

Cultural Intelligence

You will be equipped with the science and strategies of cultural intelligence. It will challenge you to think critically about how culture shapes our thinking, feeling, and actions. It will also provide tools and frameworks to assess and develop your cultural intelligence for global leadership.

The Business Study Mission (BSM) seeks to enrich your knowledge on doing business in Asia while expanding your global outlook. Company visits are organised within Asia or locally, which provide an inside view on the practical side of business and a platform to engage directly with senior management, in addition to seminars and lectures conducted by industry experts. This emphasis parallels the national economic strategy which, in recent years, has focused on the development of an “external wing” to balance a strong, but relatively small, internal economy in fast-developing Asia and beyond.

The BSM Provides A Unique Opportunity For You To:

• Gain insights into best practices from particular segments of business, industry, and government entities.
• Learn about the successful transformation strategies of global and local companies.
• Understand the opportunities and challenges of doing business in a particular country or a different cultural environment.
• Understand the model for governance, business growth, and human capital development in various countries.
• Develop critical thinking and a valuable professional network.

Medtronics, Shanghai 2019

Ali Pay, Hangzhou 2019

Ant Financial, Hangzhou 2019

Costco, Tokyo 2019

Real World, Real Impact

Strategy Projects at Nanyang (SPAN), a capstone module of the Nanyang MBA, is an educational collaboration between sponsor organisations and Nanyang Business School (NBS), in which MBA participants work in teams of four or five to address opportunities and challenges of an industry sponsor. Made possible by our strong engagement with industry partners, these projects are carefully curated to expose you to a spectrum of real scenarios faced by companies from across various industries.

With guidance from course instructors, faculty mentors, and sponsors, each team will conduct research and analysis to develop innovative yet practical recommendations and solutions that will be delivered in a final presentation.

SPAN provides a unique opportunity to:

• Apply innovative thinking and insights from the Nanyang MBA to a real-life situation
• Practice planning, organising, and presenting on strategy projects for business organisations
• Explore new functions and business sectors
• Experience the dynamics of working in diverse, cross-functional teams
• Sharpen consultative engagement skills

The organisations that partner with SPAN come from a variety of sectors:

Timeline:

Starting in the second trimester, the teams spend around 20 weeks working on SPAN, from project kick-off to final presentation:

Timeline shown is for the Nanyang MBA full-time cohort and is subject to change.

Academic Supervisors:

While expected to work independently, each team will be mentored by an academic supervisor with a wealth of industry experience and expertise.

Alvin Ng

Alvin is Vice President of Digital Solutions, APAC, Johnson Controls, responsible for driving the company’s digital growth strategy for the Asia-Pacific region. This follows over 20 years of experience in global sales and product management in leadership roles with multinationals like Wincor Nixdorf AG, Cisco Systems, and Rosenbluth International, and as General Manager for GE Digital, Southeast Asia. He brings his extensive experience and passion for digital transformation and advanced technologies.