New course focuses on global trends

A BUSINESS programme that will help South African managers to be more long-term orientated and to wise up to global trends has been developed for the UCT Graduate School of Business. “We want to broaden South African executives’ focus from the short-term perspective many take today, and expose them to farsight 21st century thinking to gain a competitive advantage,” said Professor Neil Duffy, Emeritus Professor of Information and Knowledge Management at Wits Business School, who has developed the programme with Professor Anthos Yannakou, former executive vice president of the CSIR. According to Duffy, the key motivation for designing the landmark programme, called New Millennium Management and running this July, is the fact that today’s generation of managers, more than any generation in the past, faces a sea of change and complexity. The question the pair posed was: Are South African business leaders really clued up on how to deal with this? For more information on the new programme, contact the UCT GSB.