Competitive Strategy
Overview
Learn how to build competitive strategy from renowned Harvard
Business School Professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell,
Dr Marko Saravanja, entrepreneur and founder of Regenesys
Business School, Nic Frangos, founder of Global Equities,
Kuseni Dlamini, chairman of the Massmart Board, and a panel
of top local and international strategy experts. Critical success
factors in developing and executing competitive strategy, and
building and sustaining competitive advantage in the context of a
rapidly changing globalised business world will be explored. Key
strategic management models and trends will be examined.
Who should attend
CEOs, senior managers, middle managers, and everyone
involved in strategy development and execution from the
private, public and non profit sectors.
Benefits
• Gaining knowledge of how to build and sustain global
competitive advantage from renowned Harvard Business
School Professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
• Learning strategy from top local and international experts
• Obtaining practical knowledge and insights to execute strategy
in your organisation
• Networking with prominent strategy expert and senior
executives from the private and public sectors
Learning methodology
Adult-based interactive learning methodology, including case
studies, facilitation, team-based activities and high-level expert
input.
Certification
Delegates will receive a certificate of attendance.
For enquiries and reservations:
Email: Beth Mann – bethm@regenesys.co.za
Online application: To complete the online application go to
onlineapplication.regenesys.co.za
Telephone: +27 (0) 11 669 5044
V04/15/ZA
Date:
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Time: 09h00-16h00
Participation fee: R9 900, limited seating.
Group discount on bookings of 8 or more.
Venue: Regenesys Campus, Sandton,
4 Pybus Road, corner Katherine Street
Speakers
Professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is the Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business
School (HBS). For the past 15 years he has taught in Executive Education, MBA and PhD programmes
on Strategy, Competitiveness, and Game Theory. Casadesus-Masanell has delivered programmes
on strategy globally and consulted to the most reputable multinational companies. He has published
several book chapters, case studies, and articles in the most reputable journals such as Harvard
Business Review, Management Science, and Strategic Management Journal, among others.
Dr Marko Saravanja
Marko is an entrepreneur, an academic and a former development worker and monk. Marko obtained his PhD
in Performance Management. Marko was a finalist of Ernst Young World Entrepreneurship Awards in 2009
and serves on the Advisory Board of First National Bank in South Africa. Marko has delivered inspirational
talks internationally for large corporates and governments. His programmes have inspired, changed lives, and
energised thousands of people from across the world. Marko has written the book Secrets of Success.
Croatian born, Marko has lived a life of extremes; taken roads less travelled, continuously pushed his
boundaries of comfort, taken risks and explored the unknown. As a former yoga and mediation monk, he lived
an ascetic life for seven years, helping poverty stricken communities to access education, health and employment opportunities. Marko has
climbed Kilimanjaro, scuba dived, parachuted, and travelled to 60 countries by the age of 48. His additional interests include investments,
stock market trading and helicopter flying.
He started the free online business education initiative at Regenesys Business School, with the purpose of providing free online business
education to the world. Since its launch in November 2012, thousands of people from over 190 countries have benefited from this initiative.
Marko has successfully launched Regenesys in India and Nigeria, created the Regenesys Foundation and started an investment company
that provides opportunities to over 100,000 Regenesys students and alumni to invest, trade in stock market, and pursue their financial
freedom. Marko’s purpose in life is to help people awaken their potential and achieve their dreams.
Kuseni Dlamini
For enquiries and
Email:
Online application:
Telephone:
reservations:
Beth Mann – bethm@regenesys.co.za
To complete the online application go to onlineapplication.regenesys.co.za
+27 (0) 11 669 5044
V04/15/ZA
Appointed to the Massmart Board 10 April 2014. Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Nomination
Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee. Kuseni Dlamini is the Chairman of Times Media
Group Ltd (formerly Avusa), a leading media and entertainment company listed on the Johannesburg Stock
Exchange. He is the former Chief Executive Officer of Old Mutual South Africa and Emerging Markets.
Prior to this he was the Head of Anglo American South Africa and a member of the Executive Committee
of Anglo American plc in London and was Director of Anglo Platinum Ltd. He is also the former Executive
Chairman of Richards Bay Coal Terminal Company Ltd and a former Chairman of Anglo Operations (Pty)
Ltd. As part of his career in mining he held a number of senior positions at Anglo Gold Ashanti and De Beers
Consolidated Mines Ltd in South Africa and the United Kingdom. Kuseni is a graduate of the Universities of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, and
Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In March 2008, he was named a ‘Young Global Leader’ by the World Economic Forum and,
during the same month, Miningx selected him as one of the top 100 most influential people in South African mining. In June 2008, the
Mail & Guardian named him as one of the top 200 young people worth taking to lunch and in the same year and month, The Economist
referred to him as “A Rare Commodity’. In 2010, the World Economic Forum appointed him a member of the Global Agenda Council on
Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation. In 2011, he was appointed Co-Chairman of the annual World Economic Forum Africa Summit
which brings together Heads of States, leading politicians and business leaders to debate the state of Africa in a changing world on
an annual basis. Kuseni is active in professional bodies and charities which include the South African Institute of International Affairs,
Common Purpose and the Advisory Board of Wits Business School. He is also a member of the Council of the University of Pretoria and
Chairman of the Board of South African National Parks.
Speakers
Nic Frangos
Nic Frangos is a highly successful entrepreneur and businessperson. He started his career at Unilever
and became the youngest senior manager in Unilever worldwide. Nic was then appointed as the
Managing Director of Business Equipment Corporation before expressing his entrepreneurial spirit by
establishing Mercedes Information Technologies (M.I.T). M.I.T was the second largest IT Group in SA
comprising four public companies and led the market in networking, outsourcing, software and systems.
Nic founded Frankin a private equity investment firm and the controlling shareholder of Corpgro Ltd,
Dunlop Africa Ltd, Smarthold (Pty) Ltd and Stallion Security. He is also the founder of Legends Inc and
Global Equities.
With Nic at the helm, M.I.T won the award for the best privately owned company in South Africa, judged by Arthur Anderson, Wits
Business School and Business Day. Nic was awarded “Man of the Year” by Computer Mail and “Personality of the Year” by Computer
For enquiries and
Email: Online application:
Telephone: reservations:
Beth Mann – bethm@regenesys.co.za
To complete the online application go to onlineapplication.regenesys.co.za
+27 (0) 11 669 5044
V04/15/ZA
Society of South Africa.