Master of Business Development
People, Performance and Strategic Renewal
Strengthen your skills in making informed people decisions that support organisational performance and long-term strategic development.
Start: May 20
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Purpose
The course explores how people decisions shape organisational performance in a rapidly changing world of work. It examines how organisations align talent, teams, and skills with strategic goals, design high-performing work environments, and sustain competitiveness through continuous renewal. Combining analytical frameworks with practical application, the course equips participants to make informed people decisions that support organisational performance and long-term strategic development.
Your benefits
- Diagnose how people-related decisions influence organisational performance and strategic renewal.
- Translate strategic priorities into concrete people and capability initiatives.
- Design organisational conditions that enable high-performing teams.
- Evaluate workforce development and reskilling strategies in dynamic business environments.
- Analyse how talent development supports long-term competitiveness.
- Formulate actionable people strategies that support business growth and renewal.
- Apply course frameworks to real organisational challenges in own professional context.
Description
Organisations increasingly compete through their ability to mobilise talent, develop organisational capabilities, and continuously renew themselves in response to technological disruption, shifting labour markets, and the broader transformation of work. This course examines how people-related decisions shape organisational performance and long-term strategic renewal. Participants learn how to translate strategy into concrete people actions: attracting, developing, and deploying talent; designing performance-enabling team structures;
and building learning mechanisms that support upskilling and reskilling in dynamic environments.
Through a combination of analytical frameworks, case discussions, and applied exercises, the course develops participants’ ability to diagnose people-related strategic challenges and translate them into actionable organisational initiatives. Particular attention is given to the role of data and evidence in people decision-making, including the use of workforce analytics to diagnose performance drivers. The course also examines engagement and wellbeing as critical elements of the organisational infrastructure that enables sustainable performance.
Themes
- People as a strategic resource: how talent and capabilities contribute to competitive advantage
- Aligning people strategy with business growth and organisational priorities
- Identifying pivotal roles and designing effective talent strategies
- Reskilling, upskilling, and skills-based workforce planning in dynamic environments
- New ways of organising work: remote, project-based, and platform-enabled work models
- Designing high-performing teams and enabling collaboration in diverse work settings
- Engagement, wellbeing, and organisational conditions that support sustained performance
- Using workforce analytics to diagnose performance drivers and support evidence-based people decisions
Fakta
Spring 2027
| Lecture dates: | May 20-21 & Jun 1-2 from 9-4 |
| Exam: | Jun 30 |
| Place: | CBS - Dalgas Have 15, 2000 Frb |
| Teachers: | Dana Minbaeva & Thomaz Teodorovicz |
| Type: | Elective |
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