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Masters of Family Managed Business: Programme Structure

 

Career skills you can apply to your family business

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SPJ London's Masters of Family Managed Business imparts cutting-edge skills enabling you to grow your family business in today's challenging business environment.

Curriculum Summary

Curriculum Summary

The programme encompasses all facets of a traditional MBA programme with a unique approach. It comprises:

A. The foundational pillars crucial to any business:
     1. Business as customer – Marketing Management.
     2. Business is execution – Operations and Supply Chain Management.
     3. Business is People – OB, HRM and OD.
     4. Business is Money – Finance, Cost management, Taxation and Trusts.
 
B. Once these pillars are fortified, individuals gain the flexibility to shape the scale of their enterprise or to start a new business:
     5. Business is choice – General Management; Strategy.
 
C. Acknowledging the external influences on business operations:
     6. Business Dependencies – PESTLE, Globalisation and Digital Transformation in business.
 
D. Beyond knowledge, proficiency in key business skills is essential:
     7. Ability to express and extract - Communication.
     8. Ability to communicate the value – Selling skills.
     9. Ability to effectively deal win-win – Negotiation.
    10. Ability to be a reference – Leadership.
 
E. Complementing knowledge and skills are indispensable attitudes:
    11. Towards the family – appreciating the dynamics and reconciling the differences.
    12. Towards self – Entrepreneurial ethos and the seven habits of effective executives.
 
The programme leverages insights gained through observing family mentors and managers within the family business. It emphasizes the importance of asking pertinent questions and engaging in discussions with them to explore the relevance of concepts learned in the programme to real-world business scenarios and the context of the family business.
 
Upon completion, participants culminate their learning journey by crafting a comprehensive three-year business plan. This plan encompasses not only the business strategy but also integrates a family plan and role plan tailored to each participant's unique circumstances and aspirations in the existing or new business.
 
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Curriculum Summary

Programme Structure

180 credits are required to fulfil the requirements of the programme.

Core subjects

135

credits

+

Applied Research Project culminating
in a three year business plan

45

credits

=

Total

180

credits

You will be taught in one or two week blocks which normally comprise 6 hours per day for 6 days per week.

 
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Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods

Learning and Assessment Methods

To be successful in today’s global environment you need to have both professional and academic experience. The range of learning and assessment methods in SPJ London programmes are designed to prepare you for this, ensuring you are able to help maximise opportunities for your family business.

Learning and Assessment Methods

 

Experiential Learning

We encourage critical analysis and debate on contemporary management issues and place emphasis on independent study and research. At the core of our programmes is the belief that learning should reflect real life business contexts. Students thrive where theory meets practice, which is why our courses emphasize interactive elements such as business simulations, live projects, real time trading, seminars and rich industry-academic collaborations.

Assessment

SPJ London’s applied-learning approach to assessment ensures you graduate with practical, immediately applicable skills. Continuous assessment through individual and group assignments, class participation, simulations, projects, and examinations accurately quantifies your understanding and growth. Our assessments are ‘authentic’ - designed to mimic real world environments.

Upon completion, participants culminate their learning journey by crafting a comprehensive three-year business plan. This plan encompasses not only the business strategy but also integrates a family plan and role plan tailored to each participant's unique circumstances and aspirations in the existing or new business.

Employability

Employability
SP Jain has a strong reputation for developing highly skilled, sought-after, employable graduates from a diverse range of backgrounds. The SP Jain London School of Management is committed to developing employable graduates and the curriculum has been designed to enhance employability at all levels of study. The MFMB is an innovative and interdisciplinary programme through which students will gain the necessary knowledge and skills empowering those working in a family business to not only adapt to their family enterprise but also to lead it towards exponential growth or a new enterprise.
 
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Employability

 

 

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