STRATEGY

CONSULTING
Live Online
Programme

Programme Directors
Ganesh N Prabhu & Thomas Kuruvilla

Dates
17-21 February 2021

STRATEGY & GENERAL MANAGEMENT


Strategy Consulting
Dates
17-21 February 2021
Since the impact of strategy consulting is high if there is
a symbiotic partnership between client and consultant,
this programme will cover the essentials of strategy
consulting from both the client and the consultant sides.
Participants from both consulting and client firms will be
enabled to switch sides in understanding the nuances
of strategy consulting process from both the sides.
While client firm participants learn about when it is most
effective to engage strategy consultants, consultant
firm participants will learn about how to prospect for
strategy consulting opportunities and how to effectively
assess those that are proposed to their firm. Participants
will gain key insights on strategy consulting to ensure
maximum value extraction and learning from consulting
engagements. The programme will cover the suitability
of consulting for various types of business problems, the
ethics of consulting and the economics of consulting.
This will help understand how to create an enabling and
effective consulting process. The programme includes
applications, discussions and debates on the concepts
covered using practical business cases of both consulting
companies and client firms.
Themes Covered
• Strategic Thinking
• Changing Business Models and Business Strategy
• Why Do Firms Need Strategy Consulting? Drivers and
Rationale
• Types of Consulting: Drivers and Rationale: Case
Discussion
• Economics of Consulting
• Effective Multi-level Client Engagement: Case
Discussion
• Strategy Consulting Exercise
• Strategy of Consulting Firms: Case Discussion
• Ethics of Consulting
Participant Profile
Middle to senior level managers who wish to hone their
decision making skills while engaging with strategy
consultants as well as client facing strategy consultants
who wish to improve their skills on prospecting for
consulting as well as effectively engaging with client
firms. Consultant and client teams are encouraged to
participate together to build synergy from the discussions
in the programme.
Testimonials
Live Online
Programme
Programme Schedule
IIMB has adopted the ZOOM platform to conduct
synchronous online live sessions after careful
evaluation of multiple options. It helps create a
learning environment that is quite similar to a face to
face class, and also provides pedagogical tools that
facilitate discussion based learning. Participants will
need to have a computer that can download Zoom
software and a sound Internet connection to attend
the sessions.
Timeline of the Programme:
• 17-21, Feb 2021, 9am to 1.15pm
(Wednesday - Sunday)
The key takeaway of this course, has been
interaction with the faculty, with both, Prof. Prabhu
and Mr. Kuruvilla. The thought of an external faculty
engaged in active practice of strategy, participating
in the face-to-face sessions along with an in-house
faculty ably amalgamate industry nuances with
academic concepts. The in-depth discussions
had during the sessions elucidate and drive real-
time hands-on knowledge and experiences, while
ensuring its relevance in an ever changing and
evolving economy.
Mr. Vishal Jeevankumar
Founder | Principal Consultant,
Core Concepts & FSD Consulting
IIMB’s Strategy Consulting programme has
helped me to gain a very good understanding
about the industry. The theoretical principles,
along with the practical experience in the form
of conducted case studies have been a valuable
resource which provided me with a foundation
for later projects I have handled in the past
six months. I would like to highlight how the
frameworks I learned have added value at work.
Dr. Ganesh Prabhu and Mr. Thomas Kuruvilla
were the most amazing mentors and programme
coaches. The course also has been of great help in
connecting me to 40+ professionals with a similar
interest area and exchanging notes on the topic
even today.
Ms. Megha Bansal
Delivery Manager, Aon Benfield – Strategy and
Research, Aon Benfield
The program was extremely helpful and insightful
for me as i learnt the tricks of the trade in terms of
how to price my service, ho do i go about promoting
my business and how to structure my organisation.
I being the founder of my brand consulting firm, it
really helped me coming back from the program to
structure my organisation in a better way. I would
definitely recommend this program to anyone who
is part of the brand consulting fraternity, especially
the start-ups.
Vipin Singh
Bridgegap Consultants
Founder & Chief Consultant
PROGRAMME DIRECTORS
Ganesh N Prabhu is Professor of
Strategy at IIMB. He did his post-
graduation from the Institute of Rural
Management Anand and is a Fellow of
IIM Ahmedabad. He won the Best Young
Teacher Award and Best Research
Paper Award from the Association of
Indian Management Schools. Since
1996 he teaches strategy courses across programmes
and offers an elective on new product development in the
post-graduate programme at IIMB. He has conducted
several senior management team visioning workshops
and been actively involved in mentoring aspiring
entrepreneurs, start-ups and small firms. He was earlier
a nominated member of the India Design Council. While
at IIMB he has consulted on major turnaround projects
and prior to his doctoral studies he was an Executive
Assistant to the Managing Director of the Punjab Milk
Federation for a year on a major turnaround project.
Thomas Kuruvilla is a member of
the Global Board of Arthur D. Little
and leads Arthur D. Little’s operations
in the Middle East. He is also Head of
the Strategy and Organization practice
in South Asia and Middle East. He has
been with Arthur D. Little for over 20
years and was earlier responsible for
Arthur D. Little’s Singapore office. He is
a member of the Industry Advisory Panel of S. P. Jain
School of Global Management and a part-time faculty at
the Indian Institute of Management Udaipur and Great
Lakes Institute of Management. He is also a speaker in
conferences in the areas of Leadership Development,
International Strategy, Turnaround Management and
Corporate Venturing.
Thomas has strategy consulting and operational/
management experience in the Middle East, Europe
and South Asia in the areas of strategy development &
implementation, international expansion, economic policy
development, merger and acquisitions, and performance
management – both in public and private sectors. He
has a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics
Engineering from Kerala University and MBA from the
Melbourne Business School, Australia/Asian Institute of
Management, Philippines. Before joining Arthur D. Little
he worked with Larsen and Toubro for five years and for
a brief period was a Pilot Officer with Indian Air Force.
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