Weekend School of Business

From April 26 to July 26, join Slice Academy’s most popular group business program — the Weekend School of Business. Throughout the course, you’ll gain essential knowledge and practical skills to successfully run your own business. By the end of the program, you’ll be able to independently develop and implement a full business plan.

 

The main modules of the course spanning a total of 56 hours are as follows:

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Module 1: Business Process Management (6 hours)

• Business process management

• Lean and Six Sigma principles in BPM

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Module 2: Tools to Use (2 hours)

• Microsoft Project

• Miro, Trello

• Practice Microsoft Project, Miro, Trello

Module 3: Team Management (6 hours)

• Vacancies modeling

• Recruitment and shortlisting

• Team and corporate culture

• Motivation and efficiency

Module 4: Cost calculation. Productivity calculation (6 hours)

• Cost calculation

• Bandwidth and profitability

• Common productivity measures, inputs, and outputs

• Basic productivity formulas (labor productivity, machine/productivity, total factor productivity)

• Data collection and analysis for productivity insights

• Identifying areas for improvement through benchmarking

• Real-time productivity monitoring

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Module 5: Marketing and Sales for Business (8 hours)

• Marketing in business

• Market overview

• Calculations in marketing

• Sales channels

• Marketing and sales integration

• Listening to the market

Module 6: Product review, testing and packaging (6 hours)

• Customer pain and customer gain analysis

• Core functionality and competitive advantage

• Quality control and testing

• User/prototype testing

• Packaging design and usability

• Customer service and product perception

• Market test (pilot test)

 

Module 7: Pricing policy. Negotiations in business (8 hours)

• Value based and competitive pricing

• Market pricing

• Variations, special offers, discounts and deals

• Roles and aspects of negotiations

• Negotiation skills

• Harvard Business School Negotiation Model

• Partnering and networking

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Module 8: Risk Management (2 hours)

• Identification of risks

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Module 9: System and critical thinking (4 hours)

• System thinking in business

• System thinking tools

• Basic components of critical thinking

• Critical thinking skills: analytical thinking, creative thinking, problem solving techniques

• Decision making with systems and critical thinking

• Root cause analysis in problem solving

Module 10: Practice (2 hours)

• TRIZ

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Module 11: Business Strategy (6 hours)

• The Role of Strategy in Business Success

• Types of Strategy

• The Strategy Development Process

• Key Strategy Development Tools

• What to Consider During Strategy Development for Successful Implementation

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Register by April 17 and join the full course at our special Last-Minute Jump-In price — just 299,000 AMD instead of 499,000! Flexible payment options available.