The Amman World Trade Center (AWTC) is proud to offer the business community in Jordan with the latest business topics. AWTC invites you to attend or nominate your staff to participate in a course entitled:

“Managing a Growing Business”



 

  

Course Overview:

The objectives of the course are: 1- Develop a hands on understanding of the critical success factors in the successful growth of entrepreneurial and other ventures. 2- Develop your skills for critical and analytical thinking problem identification, and problem solving, including “back of the envelope” quantitative analysis, and for the application of your creativity to business problems. In addressing these issues, the course involves the application of strategic tools with real world examples. The real world examples and applications of the tools will come from cases and from material brought in by participant and the lecturer. Because of the relatively small class size, the course will be conducted in an open discussion, workshop-style format. The seminar will be divided into two parts (2 days, one day a week for two weeks). Each participant will have the chance to enroll either in the two parts (days) or select one of the two days to participate in. The seminar will cover tremendous areas such as:

 

First Day: Sunday, May 9th, 2004:

• Why Grow? The Challenge of Growth.
• A Small Business is not a Little Big Business
• The Basis for Successful Growth
• The Five Stages of Small Business Growth
• How Entrepreneurs Craft Strategies that Work
• Determining Cash Requirements for Growth
• External Financing for Growth
• Growing Through New Products
• Growing By Creating New Market Space

 

Second Day, Wednesday, May 12th, 2004

• Valuation in a Private Equity Setting
• Balanced Scorecard
• Competing with Quality
• Transition from Financial to Management Accounting
• Strategic Analysis and Strategic Cost Management
• Cost Concepts
• Strategy and the Master Budget
  In addition the seminar will be an interactive discussion that is built on case analysis

Speaker’s Profile:

Samer I. Asfour

Professional Experience:

• Nine years of progressively responsible experience in Monetary & Fiscal Policy, Invest. and Finance. Currently working as the CEO of the Amman World Trade Center.

• Lectured Strategy Courses for the Amman World trade Center’s members companies.

• Lectured Leadership courses for University of Jordan.

• Received the Herald Tribune award for the best article written on Jordanian Economy.

• Published several articles in Strategy in different magazines.

Education:

• University of Denver, Denver, Colorado Daniels College of Business MBA Honors, specializing in Strategic Planning.

• University of Reading, Reading, England Masters of Science in International Securities, Investment and Banking, with Merit.

Course Fees:

JAWTC Members:
The cost per day will be 150 JOD. If a participant wants to enroll in the two days the cost will be JOD 250.

Non Members:
The cost per day will be 200 JOD. If a participant wants to enroll in the two days the cost will be JOD 350.

The Course will be on two days: Sunday May 9th, 2004 , & Wednesday May 12th, 2004 to give you enough time to prepare for the assignment on Wednesday from 9:00 AM till 5:00 PM. Lunch will be provided with two coffee breaks.

Radisson SAS Hotel –Jabal Amman.

To register, please call Mr. Hani Natour 560-5791/2 by 12:00 p.m. May 8, 2004