Preparing for a career in management, consulting or research
The Strategy, Organisation and Leadership concentration prepares you for a career in management, consulting, or research. It provides analytical tools that enable you to understand, design and intervene in organisations and their wider network, thereby attaining skills necessary for effective leadership. Emphasis is given to understanding and dealing with the real-life challenges, characterised by complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity, and in which the consequences of choices are not foreseeable from the onset..

Enhancing organisational performance
Understanding organisational development and change are key aspects of modern management and leadership, particularly in times of rapid and often random changes in an organisation’s environment. However, successful management and leadership call for more than merely understanding the conditions under which an organisation operates. It calls for acting creatively to enhance organisational performance as well as the performance of the people working in them.