Can you give further information about the GEGN Business Groups training program?

Can you give further information about the GEGN Business Groups training program?

The GEGN Business Groups program is an advanced program for Chairmen, CEOs, Directors and Business Leaders of large diversified privately controlled business groups focusing on Strategy, Competitiveness and Multinationalisation specifically for companies from emerging countries who aim to globalise their business. It is THE ONLY program of its kind for privately controlled business groups globally.

Diversified private business groups are a major force, and are among the most vibrant competitors in today’s marketplace. While these groups have enviable strengths—long-term relationships, a reputation for quality work, aggressive reinvestment, and high stakeholder loyalty—they also can be hindered by traditional practices, internal politics, and owner-shareholder-manager conflicts. In a business environment characterized by new players and intensified competition, running a privately controlled company with a diversity of business holdings has become increasingly complex. Business owners face unique challenges, such as nurturing effective family work and shareholder relationships, addressing succession issues, maintaining ownership control, developing synergy and value relationships between business units in a demanding ownership setting.

In addition, the pressures facing groups with a portfolio of diversified businesses are multifaceted and unprecedented. Capital markets, boards of directors, and shareholders all are demanding that senior leaders formulate powerful corporate strategies. As competition within product markets intensifies, diversified companies are discovering that success depends on the combined assets, skills, and capabilities of the firm as a whole. The fact is…for senior leaders to prove that their combination of businesses—both related and unrelated—maximizes shareholder value, they must be able to demonstrate that the sum is worth more than the individual parts.

The program is therefore designed to confront this challenge by exposing leaders to state-of-the-art thinking and research on corporate- and sector-level strategy within privately controlled business groups. These tasks require sensitive leadership and thoughtful planning by the business, partners, shareholders or families, and ownership groups. Owners can contribute greatly to the success of their business—and vice versa—when the owners follow a discipline mapped out by successful emerging giants in businesses from around the world.

These leadership practices are at the heart of Global Emerging Giant Network’s Business Group Programs