A field visit to the "E-choupal" IT project in rural India.
“For me, the IMPM program has been a completely unique experience. A revelation for me was discovering that the management problems faced by me or a Japanese manager in Fujitsu, or an Indian manager in a start-up software company in Bangalore or a Disaster Coordinator for the International Federation of the Red Cross were all fundamentally similar."
Kevin Livesey
IMPM 2002
Senior Business Manager, International TV Broadcast Services BT Ignite
British Telecom
UK
What sets the IMPM apart?
Authentically international
The IMPM is not a domestic program with foreign activities, but one truly balanced across different parts of the world and centered in none – so that each location feels both local and foreign. The intention is to create worldly managers rather than global managers.
The need for worldly - not global - managers
The IMPM is international, but it is not meant to be “global”, which suggests conformist. To be worldly, as the Oxford Dictionary defines it, is to be “experienced in life, sophisticated, practical.” The IMPM focuses the world around the manager: from a political, social, legal standpoint - to explore different perspectives and gain a true appreciation of other perspectives. Why impose conformity when we can benefit from diversity?
Worldwide campus: The medium is the message
Participants travel to a different campus for each module and spend time immersed in the culture of the host country. While there, they go on field studies to local companies, observe different managerial practices and learn from the diverse insights and perceptions of fellow participants - especially those from the host country.
Focus on BRIC economies
The IMPM module locations now embrace three of the four BRIC economies: India, China and Brazil, as well as the developed economies of North America and Western Europe.
Thus the IMPM is as Asian as it is European or American, offering participants an authentically cross-cultural experience, and by immersing participants in each culture creating deep insights.
Although each module is separate and distinct, and reflects the culture and business practices of the host country, the program as a whole is linked by the faculty from beginning to end as an integrated experience. Each cycle of IMPM has a director who leads the continuity of learning, and each participant belongs to a tutorial group whose tutor also supports the continuity of learning.