The Warwick Executive Diploma in Advanced Management

Programme structure

The programme is delivered in four modules of your choice, each over four days at WBS London, so you don’t need to divert from your usual responsibilities at work. Upon successful completion you will be awarded an Executive Diploma in Advanced Management from the University of Warwick.

You can mix and match any four Postgraduate Awards from the themes below to become your modules. 

The four Postgraduate Awards that you choose to study will build and develop new leadership thinking and transform your strategic understanding enabling you to utilise your new learning immediately in your own organisation between modules as well as through your Project Module. 

Behavioural Science for Consumers and Markets

How and why do we make certain decisions? Individual decision-making affects markets and organisations. Develop a toolkit that will enable you to have better personal decision-making, better design of products & services, and more effective workplaces.

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Behavioural Science for Ethical Leaders and Negotiators

With power comes great responsibility, but what does it mean to be an ethical leader in modern society? As a leader and an individual, you face many competing demands. In this module, explore how you can apply theories and strategies to negotiate how you respond as a leader and as a negotiator.

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Behavioural Science for Organisations and Innovation

Are you looking to develop a cooperative, creative and collaborative culture in your organisation? Effective collaboration and positive organisational culture can have a huge impact on well-being, innovation and incentivising team members.

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Behavioural Science in the Real World

Human behaviour is at the heart of every business, and so understanding how to apply behavioural science theory and insights can have a real impact on your organisation.

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Business Analytics for Executives

This four-day, in-person course, will explore how you can unlock the power of data within your organisation, to improve your decision-making and develop insightful managerial advice.

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Driving Digital Transformation Within Sales

Sales is one of the functions most fundamentally transformed by digital technologies. From lead generation to after-sales service, tasks are being increasingly replaced or enhanced by technologies such as virtual communication, e-commerce channels, analytics, and artificial intelligence.  

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Entrepreneurship and innovation within your organisation helps to nurture the knowledge and creativity that can lead to product, process, service, or organisational change. In this module, you will develop the ability of your organisation to generate and pursue entrepreneurial opportunities, to maintain relevance. 

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Leading Digital Transformation

Digitalisation is happening everywhere, every company and organisation is now digital. In this module, you will focus on what is digital transformation, how has it evolved and what it means in the current context of the world.

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Business Analytics for Executives

Data has become one of the most important resources to an organisation. Discover how you can unlock the power of data within your organisation, to improve your decision-making and develop insightful managerial advice.

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Platform Strategy

There is a building interest in platforms and their strategic implications for organisations, and how they are shaping the world we live in. This module will provide you with a broad perspective on platform strategy and highlight its relevance for contemporary organisations. 

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Business Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

This part-time, online course, will provide you with an in depth understanding of artificial intelligence and its implications on business, jobs and skills.

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Leading an Agile and Resilient Organisation

Building an agile and resilient organisation enables you to overcome obstacles, by designing systems and processes that allow you to move quickly. In this module, you will explore why agility in organisations is essential for success in an increasingly complex, volatile and uncertain world. 

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Behavioural Science in the Real World

This part-time, online course, will provide you with the necessary skills, concepts, and tools for tackling the key sustainability challenges that you and your organisation is facing.

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Developing Executive Leadership

Do you want to develop your understanding of leadership and gain tools to become an effective leader? In an ever-changing world that presents new challenges, such as the cost-of-living crisis, the pandemic and war, it is essential for leaders to be prepared and forward-thinking.

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The Strategic Mindset of Leadership

Strategic Leadership is future-focused. It requires leaders to have an appetite for paradoxes and problems that cannot yet be solved, and the need for organisations to be adaptable and innovative is essential. Does this sound like something your organisation has mastered, or could you help implement some progressive change to give your organisation the strategic edge?

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Leading People Through Change and Disruption

To implement and adapt to change it is essential, for all the people and stakeholders within an organisation, to have a clear understanding and appreciation of the changes happening around them. In this module, you will explore the people side of organisational change and the implications for change leaders.

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Leading an Agile and Resilient Organisation

Building an agile and resilient organisation enables you to overcome obstacles, by designing systems and processes that allow you to move quickly. In this module, you will explore why agility in organisations is essential for success in an increasingly complex, volatile and uncertain world. You

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Marketing Strategy and Planning

How can you create a marketing strategy that gives your organisation a competitive edge? This module will provide a step-by-step process for creating a world-class marketing strategy.

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Enhancing Customer Centricity and the Customer Voice

Place the customer at the heart of your organisation to ensure the best customer experience. Learn to think like your customers, and know who they are and who they will become, to give your organisation a competitive edge.

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Innovation Strategy, Process and Culture

For an organisation to move forward innovation is essential. However, driving innovation within an organisation is not an easy process. This module will explore how you can develop a strategic approach to innovation within your organisation, nurturing the knowledge and creativity that can lead to product, process, service, or organisational change.

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Behavioural Science for Ethical Leaders and Negotiators

With power comes great responsibility, but what does it mean to be an ethical leader in modern society? As a leader and an individual, you face many competing demands. In this module, explore how you can apply theories and strategies to negotiate how you respond as a leader and as a negotiator.

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Creating Strategic Advantage

Creating Strategic Advantage is a four-day, in-person course, which provides the core tools and frameworks needed for developing an effective strategy in your organisation.

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Platform Strategy

There is a building interest in platforms and their strategic implications for organisations, and how they are shaping the world we live in. This module will provide you with a broad perspective on platform strategy and highlight its relevance for contemporary organisations

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation

The survival and success of an organisation require an ability to reflect and adapt to a changing landscape. Explore how you can develop the ability of your organisation to generate and pursue entrepreneurial opportunities, to maintain relevance.

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Strategic Choices

Strategic choices explore the executive-decision making within organisations to support their growth strategy. Many elements affect strategic decisions and the impact of those decisions. In this module, you will be able to understand what needs to be considered when making strategic decisions. 

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Strategy Execution

Explore the challenges of implementing a strategy in an organisation, learn how to map out strategy implementation across an organisation, and look at the bigger context for understanding the change process. 

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The Strategic Mindset of Leadership

Strategic Leadership is future focused. It requires leaders to have an appetite for paradoxes and problems that cannot yet be solved, and the need for organisations to be adaptable and innovative is essential. Does this sound like something your organisation has mastered, or could you help implement some progressive change to give your organisation the strategic edge?

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Marketing Strategy and Planning

How can you create a marketing strategy that gives your organisation a competitive edge? This module will provide a step-by-step process for creating a world-class marketing strategy.

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