Mini-MBA: Business Essentials for Engineers

Categories: AI and Management
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About Course

Finance, strategy, operations, negotiation and people, in plain language for engineers and technical managers who are moving into business roles. Every module ends with an exercise on your own organisation. This is a certificate of completion, not an MBA degree.

About 12 hours.

Course Content

Module 1: Reading the numbers

  • Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow in one hour
  • Margins, working capital and why cash matters more than profit
  • Exercise: read your company’s last annual report

Module 2: Costing and pricing

Module 3: Budgets, forecasts and business cases

Module 4: Strategy

Module 5: Operations and process

Module 6: Sales and business development

Module 7: Negotiation

Module 8: Contracts and risk

Module 9: Leading people

Module 10: Capstone