 Spring 2010
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Individual support
Call or mail Rino Schreuder for a meeting. He will be happy to show his expertise and approach. He will also be willing to provide you with a pilot consult to one of your senior executives.
Trial subscription
Click here for a trial subscription on one of the EMD international Executive Education Directories.
Midsize companies
Tailor-made course directories are not only for large organisations.
Mid sized companies also benefit from a practical online overview of executive courses.
For mid sized firms, EMD developed a simplified version with the same infrastructure. Providing access by a simple click on the corporate intranet. Accessible without using passwords. With your corporate logo, and with courses from your own preferred suppliers.
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Focus - Executive Development and Innovation
80% of all innovations originates from client demands
Innovation is crucial for corporate survival. That's why Executive Development should develop managers' ability to actively surf on the waves of change and not to sway with the waves passively; stimulating managers to get their company to take advantage of market dynamics and technological developments; instead of following external events or copy the competition. Effective Executive Development enables managers to bridge the gap between knowledge and clients, between technology and society, between manufacturing and the sales force.
A permanent learning benchmark can provide managers and their companies with valid information about the degree by which competitors are able to learn, adapt and renew: through regular customer contacts, site visits, participation in professional networks, specific courses or conferences, etc.
 Q & A Executive Education
Individual development support - more with less ...
EMD provides individual development advice to individual executives and board members. On the basis of our specific and worldwide overview of executive education, we are able to suggest precise and relevant courses and other interventions matching development needs and learning styles.
An example from this month:
Question A business unit manager cannot decide on his priorities, because he needs to downsize his staff, grow his market share and develop new markets; all at the same time. Answer Downsizing and growth at the same time: that riddle cannot be solved by working harder and more productive. This manager will have to re-assess the strategy of his operating company: which clients do we wish to serve with what exactly, which product-market combinations are earning us most?
We advised this manager to register for the Strategic Performance Management course at Cranfield School of Management. In this programme he will be encouraged to present, discuss and solve his own case, both on the business level and the level of his personal role.
Approach
With this service, EMD supports companies that do not have the specific knowledge or staff for this expertise.
Send us your own question;
we will be happy to provide the answer!  EMD Course Directories
Shorter programmes, and more attention to learning transfer
By the end of 2009, EMD published the 24th annual edition of the European Executive Education Directory. Since 2008 the directory is only accessible online. It is still the only independent overview of open enrolment, non-degree executive courses in Europe.
Subscribers in over 60 countries worldwide use the directory to assess and select courses for their managers. Next to the European Directory, EMD also publishes annual Executive Education Directories for America and Asia Pacific. Upon updating our database for 2010, we observed that programmes tend to be shorter than before. Also, more attention is being paid to learning transfer after the course. Course fees have hardly been increased compared to 2009.
More details about the Executive Education Directories can be found at the EMD-website. You may also have a look at an on-line demo.
On-line course catalogue Alliander
Increased content and new online registration features
In 2008 Nuon Energy has been split in a distribution company (Alliander) and a production company (Nuon). EMD Centre had been running and maintaining the Nuon Course catalogue since 2003. Following the split-up, two separate course catalogues have been created for the two - now separate - companies.
In 2009, the Alliander Course Catalogue has been enlarged with many additional courses. Moreover, registration for courses, coaching and individual development support has been improved with additional registration processes. At the moment, the Alliander Course catalogue is the natural starting point for learning for almost all Alliander employees.
On-line course catalogue Maastricht University
Second course guide for Academic Leadership Programme
Through the Academic Leadership Programme, Maastricht University offers internal and external courses and other development activities. In 2008, EMD Centre developed and launched the online course guide Mastering Peaks for senior managers in the university organisation. In 2009 we launched a second course guide, Oxygen, for middle managers.
Like with all company specific course directories, Alliander and Maastricht University stay in charge of selecting the courses that are being listed in their own directory. They outsource the technical infrastructure and annual content management to EMD Centre. 
Management Development Journal - Unity & Diversity
In the Winter issue of the journal we quoted Henry Mintzberg when he wrote recently about companies that should reinvent themselves as communities.
Others warn for the danger of corporate culture being wrongly 'translated' into all kinds of rules and regulations. In those cases 'community' becomes 'uniformity'. That is a dangerous direction to go; we need community and commitment, but with independent minds and hearts.
The next issue of the Journal will be published in March. Among others, it will feature articles about the development of competencies for crisis management and innovation management.
EMEN Network - Innovation in MD
Round Table conference with Roger Hallowell and Nigel Roome
In 2010 the European Executive Development Network (EMEN) will meet five times again.
During the January session, we hosted:
The EMEN Network has been established in 1998 by ABN-AMRO, Ahold, DSM, Heineken, KLM, KPN, Philips and Sara Lee. Its purpose is to exchange experiences and information about international executive development.
Among other projects, EMEN developed an online platform enabling the exchange of course evaluations of international executive courses. The current membership comprises 19 international corporations - in 2009, Schiphol Group and Deloitte joined the network. Chairman  EMD Developments
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