The EDP Centre caters to the needs of individuals and organizations and provides them with complementary and forward-looking knowledge. It not only runs open programmes and customised programmes for both senior managers and government officials, but also joins with enterprises in building corporate business schools. As of December 2020, the EDP Centre had had 212 open classes and 1,716 customised programmes, attracted 1,228 teaching experts, developed 2,577 courses, established a high-level network joined by more than 10,000 Chief Executive Officers in total.
1.1.1 Open Programme
Open programmes mainly focus on cultivation of professional managers and entrepreneurs. The programmes promote professional management skills and personal vision of corporate managers by continuously providing updated managerial theories and the most effective management methods to corporations at various stages.
Open Programmes include:
1) Premier programmes: Tan Kah Kee Spirit - ‘Leading Into The Future’ Corporate Chairmen Workshop (Tan Kah Kee Class).
2) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) programmes: Advanced Programme on Business Growth for Entrepreneurs(RE-WIN), MIIT-Leading Talents Programme for Small and Medium Sized Entrepreneurs, Advanced Programme on Chain Management Programme for New Business Elites, Advanced Programme on Finance and Investment Strategy for Entrepreneurs, China Advanced Programme on Stone Industry Entrepreneurs, Advanced Programme on Registration-Based IPO System, Advanced Programme on Cross-Border E-Commerce for Cenozoic CEO.
3) Senior Manager programmes: T-star Outstanding Manager Cultivation Programme, A-LAB Harvard ManageMentor Online Boot Camp.
1.1.2 Corporate customised programmes
As required by corporate talent development, the EDP Centre gives full play to its expertise in educational training, accumulates experiences, and integrates internal and external faculty resources to customise training programmes for corporations. Moreover, the Centre assists corporations in their talent development and commits to establishing long-term strategic partnership with corporations. The customised programmes cover a wide range of industries such as energy, chemicals, finance, construction, mining, electronics, telecommunications, food, and clothing. So far, over 100 well-known organizations from home and abroad have purchased the high-quality management training programmes from SMXMU EDP Centre.
1) Customised corporate programmes
Targeting large, medium-sized enterprises and listed companies, the Centre’s customised programmes for corporate are designed in close collaboration with the clients concerned, taking their strategic goals and the executives’ personalities and capabilities into consideration and integrating individual learning, organisational learning and collaborative learning to achieve the sharing and flow of knowledge within the organisation. At present, SMXMU offers three types of programmes for organisations: capacity enhancement, organizational transformation and problem solutions. Some of our past and current custom clients include: state-owned companies such as Xiamen Airlines, State Grid, Shenzhen Airport, Xiangye Group and Xiamen Bus Group, listed companies such as Zhongjun Group, Anta Group, Tebu Group, Sankei Paint and Xinhe Group and big private companies such as Red Lion Cement, Sanbao Steel and Liansheng Paper. Sanbao Steel, Liansheng Paper.
2) Customised Programmes for Financial Industry
Capitalising on the School’s advantages in finance and accounting, the EDP Centre enhances professional and management skills of customers in financial and banking industries. Since its foundation, the Centre has continuously offered high-quality courses for its strategic partners such as China Construction Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, China Everbright Bank, China Citic Bank, and Agricultural Development Bank of China. Its customers cover a wide range of new financial practices.
3) Customised Programmes for Governments
SMXMU’s customised programmes for governments mainly include training programmes focus on business environment and entrepreneur training programmes. The main clients of the latter are government and public-sector organisations, such as the United Front Work Department, the Department of Economic and Information Technology and the Federation of Industry and Commerce, and the entrepreneurs these organizations trying to groom.
In response to the government policy on promoting the development of private economy, the EDP Centre takes advantages of the School’s faculty resources and research achievements to design courses on how to do business for managers of small and middle-sized enterprises in China and provide intellectual support for government officials to enhance their service skills.
