Progressive Management Programme : 2009

The Consumer Goods industry is under more pressure today than ever before. Globalisation, changing consumer needs, volatile demand, hybrid shoppers, and increasing competition are huge challeenges. Strategies to exploit these opportunities need original input from new, inventive sources.

The Progressive Management Programme provides exactly this forum for the industry leaders of the future. Each five-day module consists of sessions focusing on real-life business issues and combines expertise from the world's leading business schools with the input of senior practitioners to enable you rise to these challenges. By implementing emerging best practices identified by the programme, participating companies can earn a prompt, identifiable return on investment.

Comments from the participants

« Made me think out-of-the-box »

For Nathalie Renon, Director key accounts Europe, Colgate-Palmolive (now at Fleury Michon SA) « The programme made me think out-of the-box, to think for the good of the customer, to think for the good of the shopper and, consequently to think for the good of my company. »

« Cement links between company departments »

For Phil Priest, Director Global Supply Chain, GlaxoSmithKline « I learnt how we can cement links between company departments as well as with the companies we collaborate with in order to improve the overall supply chain performance. »

« Really innovative marketing concepts »

For Xavier Taffet, Finance Director, Carrefour Asia « The programme introduces some really innovative marketing concepts, very important to us retailers, and provides us with a better knowledge than we have today. »

The Progressive Management Programme joins tomorrow's leading retail and suppliers executives in a series of shared learning journeys, thereby helping both sides understand each other better and build relationships that will last into the future.

« Gain a different perspective »

For Stephanie Penning, Programme Director, the overall goal of the Progressive Management Programme « is to enable participants to gain a different perspective on the challenges facing the Consumer Goods Business today, such that can confidently develop - and implement - innovative and sophisticated strategies for the benefit of their companies, their trading partners and the whole industry ».

Attending the Progressive Management Programme provides exactly the right opportunity for senior executives to have access to the latest thinking, techniques and develop the leadership skills- for the industry leaders of the future.

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