Professional Certificate in Trisector Strategy and Innovation for Transformation

Professional Certificate

Programme Structure

Programme Name	Programme Schedule	Mode of Delivery	Programme Code
Trisector Strategy and Innovation for Transformation (Problem Setting)	To be advised	Synchronous e-Learning	TGS-2022012360
Trisector Strategy and Innovation for Transformation (Data Collection and Analysis)	To be advised	Synchronous e-Learning	TGS-2022012364
Trisector Strategy and Innovation for Transformation (Idea Generation and Strategy Consolidation)	To be advised	Synchronous e-Learning	TGS-2022012365

Duration 7 days

Programme Overview

This Trisector Strategy and Innovation for Transformation course is unique as a train-coach model for applied problem solving. Strategy and innovation are skills that cannot mastered through reading; this course coaches you to apply them to real problems. Trisector lense is vital to solve the most complex problems such as sustainability where government, corporates and non-profits all have unique value and perspectives to the win-win-win solution. You can be from government, corporate, or non-profit. As long as you like to learn strategy and innovation through practice – this course is for you.

Participants will get to work on real projects which require strategy, innovation training and coaching to attain excellence. Strategy problems vary from overall corporate to business unit to functional strategy such as HR, marketing, technology/data, operational processes, organisational development etc. Through this programme, participants are able to devise high quality strategy and innovation that address the employers’ real concerns.

Programme Objectives

This Professional Certificate will equip learners with the following competencies:

Problem Setting
Data Collection and Analysis
Idea Generation and Consolidated Strategy

Job Role Readiness

It will prepare learners in the following job roles to perform their responsibilities more effectively/ It will prepare learners for the following job roles:

Competent thinkers and doers of strategy and innovation in their current and/or prospective workplace
Good business idea and strategic plan to run their own enterprise or start-up (no fundraising guarantee)

Who Should Attend

Individuals keen to better their mastery of strategy and innovation skills through guided coaching. Individuals with some business idea and would like to devise a strategic plan. Companies with staff teams working on a real strategy problem (transformation, business expansion, productivity, HR, ops, tech, marketing, strategy etc).

Prerequisites

At least a polytechnic diploma (or equivalent).

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This programme is part of

Advanced Professional Certificate in Digital Innovation

Instructors

Dr Charles Phua Chao Rong

Dr Charles Chao Rong Phua is an academic-practitioner of trisector strategy-innovation-entrepreneurship. With 22 years in government and corporate doing various domains (corporate, geopolitical, policy and military) and phases (design, implementation, monitoring/adjustment) of strategy work, he now runs Solaris Strategies Singapore and chairs Solaris Consortium of Management Consultancies with full suite of consulting capabilities. Besides (local and overseas) government and non-profit consulting, his corporate consulting ranged from strategy development for then $916b tech MNC to $1M start-up to sector/industry transformation to organisational development for 12 organisations. He teaches trisector strategy practicums in 4 Singapore and 1 Swiss universities, and is success coach/program leader for Chief Strategy Officer program with Emeritus and National University of Singapore Business School. His first PhD was in public policy (strategic pragmatism as strategy) and EdD (soon) on teaching strategy with postgraduate/degrees (including in progress) in international relations, education, security management, accounting, organisational psychology, systems thinking, law, HRM, marketing, economics/finance, strategy and innovation, amongst others. He learnt strategy-innovation-entrepreneurship, marketing and sustainability from top B schools: Harvard strategy, leadership and management, entrepreneurship and innovation, MIT systems thinking, Stanford design, Wharton strategy and entrepreneurship, INSEAD advanced strategy, Babson entrepreneurship, Kellogg marketing, Berkeley open innovation, LBS and Cambridge sustainability, Oxford strategy and scenarios, and fused them in his consulting and teaching/coaching practice. Dr Charles has won scholarships from NUS (PhD), NTU (EdD), Goldman Sachs (twice), Oxford and Cambridge (partial) and completed fellowships at Brookings Institution, Columbia, Johns Hopkins. He is a Singapore Skillsfuture fellowship awardee and Routledge series editor for strategy, wisdom and skills. He is amongst 100 global professor/author grade Certified Management Consultant-Academic Fellow (International Council of Management Consulting Institutes); previous winners included heads of business schools and programs. He is author of four and two (forthcoming) books covering geopolitical, policy, and corporate strategy. His 3rd and 4th published books are under consideration for two PhDs in military/security and corporate strategy, by publication. His 5th book seeks to integrate strategy in military, corporate, geopolitical and policy domains; his 6th book on teaching strategy from his EdD thesis; both manuscripts under production. He is currently writing his 7th book on corporate sustainability strategy and 8th book on trisector strategy-innovation-entrepreneurship.

Programme Fees

Singapore Citizens		Singapore PRs	Enhanced Training Support for SMEs	International Participants
39 years old or younger	40 years old or older	Singapore PRs	Enhanced Training Support for SMEs	International Participants
S$2,174.55	S$844.55	S$2,174.55	S$844.55	S$7,248.50

Total Nett Programme Fee Payable, Including GST, after additional funding from the various funding schemes
Participants must fulfill at least 75% attendance and pass all assessment components for all short courses within a professional certificate in order to be eligible for SSG funding.
GST shall apply at prevailing rates.

Other Information

“Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.”

— Henry Mintzberg, management thinker for strategic planning theory

“If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.”

— Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO of Amazon

Dr Charles Phua Chao Rong

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