Get career fit with a hands-on boot camp
Our boot camps are designed to immerse you in the specifics of strategic innovation within a particular sector. For three weeks, you'll attend advanced classes, take part in in-depth exercises and apply your knowledge to real-life challenges. Our boot camp offer is renewed every year based on student and employer demand.
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MGM students can choose one of the following boot camps*:
Why you need this course: Today, more and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services. At the same time, more and more Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurs are overturning established industries with their technology-centered solutions. And so far, things are only accelerating. Organizations are busy digitizing their internal processes, their products and services, or their channels to reach out to customers. These transformation initiatives are in fact a combination of several, small and large scale, software development projects.
You will use Python as the programming language to teach the fundamentals of algorithm development. After you learn the basic syntax and programming skills, you will focus on web development. In addition, you will learn how to code with HTML and CSS, as well as focus on one of the most widely used Python frameworks for web development.
After completing this course, you’ll be able to:
You’ll obtain a hands-on learning experience:
Course holder: Prof Dr Öykü Işık
Why you need this course: The amount of data available to organizations and individuals is unprecedented, while research predicts a significant shortage of advanced analytics talent, and an even larger shortage of managers and leaders who can make decisions based on data. Companies seeking to maximize use of the available data require finance and strategy professionals who understand data science and know how to use it to solve business challenges.
During this boot camp, you will learn current data and technology challenges of managers and decision-makers, as well as the language, concepts, insights and analytical tools required to deal with them. You will apply the Python programming language and essential machine learning techniques (including data visualization and exploration, predictive analytics, network analysis, natural language processing) to practical exercises and cases. You will also put your coding and analytics knowledge to use through the deep dive challenge at an international strategy consulting or financial services company.
Course holder: Prof Dr Kristof Stouthuysen
Why you need this course: In times where digitisation is radically transforming many industries, incumbent organisations are trying to grasp what the digital age means for their current business model. In sharp contrast with digital natives such as Google, Facebook or Snapchat, many existing enterprises have not been built to compete in this new environment where the digital and physical world are blended seamlessly. But how to survive – and win – in the digital age?
This boot camp focuses on digital transformation, a form of end-to-end, integrated business transformation where digital technologies play a dominant role. You will be addressing questions like: What are the new realities of the digital economy? What does digital innovation and transformation mean for existing companies? How to start a digital transformation and grow digital capabilities over time? How to apply digital technologies and innovation to business models, product attributes and company ecosystem combinations?
Course holder: Dr Lieselot Danneels
Why you need this course: Supply chain activities – inventory management, warehousing, sourcing, and transportation – have been performed since the start of commercial activity. It is difficult to visualize any product that could reach a customer without logistical support. Yet it is only since the last few years that firms have started focusing on supply chain management as a source of competitive advantage. There is a realization that no company can do any better than its supply chain. This becomes even more important given that product life cycles are shrinking, and competition is intense. Supply chain management today represents a great challenge as well as a tremendous opportunity.
Your goal on this course will be to improve supply chain design and planning decisions to benefit the performance of the firm as well as the entire supply chain. You will develop an understanding of the complex interactions between supply chain and other functional areas, particularly marketing and finance.
Course holder: Prof Dr Robert Boute
Other Teaching Faculty: Prof Dr Behzad Samii Prof Dr Ann Vereecke
Why you need this course: What do Alipay, Bitcoin, Klarna, Facebook, Qover and Revolut have in common? They all want a piece of the financial services sector pie, which is facing a fundamental transformation. Not only is digital technology the driver of this change, but the digital transformation also brings in a new attitude regarding user experience and an intense revision of global regulation.
In this industry-focused boot camp, you will zoom in on the emerging ecosystem of collaborative competitors. Digital technology is a major disruptive force in the financial services sector: Incumbent companies such as major banks and insurance companies have woken up to the digital revolution and are experimenting with mobile banking, AI, Bots, Blockchain, Tokens and digital platforms. The goal of this boot camp is for you to build an in-depth understanding of the main FinTech drivers, forces and dynamics in the financial services sector.
Course holder: Prof Dr Bjorn Cumps
Why you need this course: Healthcare is an important industry and public sector in society requiring specific management methods that fit regulated markets too. Involved industry sectors include biomedical technology, such as medicines, medical devices and diagnostics, as well as enabling technology, such as mobile health (m-health). On the healthcare delivery side, it includes hospitals and health management organisations.
During the boot camp, you will learn how to manage practical clinical and health problems, making use of technological or operational innovation. You will investigate how big data analytic sciences and digitally enabled care delivery processes will alter the way healthcare is delivered, such as the use of advanced biomedical products, hospital procedures and practice styles. In short, you will focus on how to create, implement, embed and sustain innovations in healthcare systems, while always taking a patient perspective and health system view, as opposed to a silo view, as a guide to manage and innovate.
Course holder: Prof Dr Walter Van Dyck Prof Dr Brecht Cardoen
Why you need this course: To limit global warming, we need to decarbonize our society, starting with a zero-carbon energy system. Part of the solution are renewable energy sources, such as solar energy, wind energy, biomass, and ocean energy. The renewable energy business is fast-growing and becoming mainstream. Corporates increasingly have green energy procurement targets, while citizens organize the supply of their energy consumption individually or collectively.
This boot camp is organized around the real-life challenges that the actors in this energy transition are facing. You will use the management frameworks from other courses, such as strategy, entrepreneurship, finance, and marketing, and apply them to these real-life challenges. We will divide you in multi-disciplinary groups and expose you to the main actors and concepts you need to know to be able to function in this sector.
Course holder: Prof Dr Leonardo Meeus
Why you need this course: How can you deliver value to your customers and how can customers deliver value to you in the current FMCG context? You will be introduced to new trends, challenges, and the different stakeholders that are involved in the marketing and retail of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG). You will improve the effectiveness of your marketing management strategy in creating value for and from their customers, ranging from the market analysis and the formulation of the strategy to the implementation.
Course holder: Prof Dr Barbara Briers
Why you need this course: This boot camp aims to equip you with the essential skills as a (junior) consultant in a professional services firm active in strategy consulting. While being trained on these skills, you will have the opportunity to apply them in a real-life case. You will solve a client case together with your project team, following the generic problem-solving method typically used by strategy consulting firms.
You will kick off by being introduced to the consulting industry and the problem-solving method, covering problem identification, problem structuring, problem analysis, and the communication of solutions. You will be exposed in detail to every phase and have the opportunity to practise a series of small exercises and cases.
Course holder: Prof Dr Martin Weiss
Why you need this course: The global sports industry is estimated to be a 1.3 trillion US dollar business*. This business consists of an elite group of professional athletes and organisation with a huge fan-base and media companies broadcasting the athletes activities. Besides this, also a group of mass participants sports can be identified that includes all amateur athletes, organisations and retailers supplying product to them. The sports business is characterised by industryspecific elements such as a very passionate and highly involved consumer base, big investments in human resources and a high level of uncertainty. There is a need for people who understand the do’s and don’ts in this business, and simultaneously, have the management skills to help sports athletes, organisations and other stakeholders to generate business value from athletic performances.
This bootcamp will focus on the business part of the sports industry. It will first introduce the participants to the specific industry. Next, digital technologies have changed the game of the sports business significantly. Hence, a second part of this bootcamp will discuss how digital technologies such as social media, sensors, virtual and augmented reality push this industry further into “over-the-top” customer experiences. In this context, also data, analytics and artificial intelligence is taking an increasingly important role in this business.
Course holder: Prof Dr Philippe Baecke
*All boot camps are reviewed on a yearly basis and as such, subject to change. Boot camps also need a minimum of participants to take place.
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