Global companies need strategic thinkers, with sound judgement. They need executives who can lead in a global, complex and rapidly changing environment. 

CEDEP’s General Management Programme (GMP) provides participants with the skills they need to manage and lead change successfully in international business.

It gives them the tools and methodologies to manage their businesses, to align their organisations, and to deal more effectively with the increasing complexity of globalisation.

• Considering policy implications across functions and cultures
• Shaping the strategic objectives and responses for their unit
• Understanding changes in the environment and their impact on companies' business

2. Developing a holistic approach to sustainable growth

• Building awareness of various business conditions
• Taking responsibility for the interpretation of strategy
• Managing the alignment of strategy, process and organisation

3. Creating the conditions for permanent innovation

• Designing versatile and flexible organisations
• Optimising present and future returns

 The GMP attracts an exclusive and culturally diverse group of general managers who have 12-15 years or more of business experience and who hold senior positions with expanding international responsibilities. Fifty-one different nationalities have been represented in the GMP to date, with over fifty percent of participants living outside their country of origin. The average age of  participants is 40.