General Information

The global management forum course enables students to develop knowledge in the Global ESG issues and identify possible solution via Innovation / Strategic Planning Framework to develop practical proposal to CHTI.

GMF class will cooperate with Chung-Hwa Telecomm International (CHTI) Division to provide student basic understanding of telecommunication industry future business challenge and issues.

This course will also teach students with IBM strategic planning methodology Business Leadership Model (BLM) as the framework to prepare CHTI business solution proposals.

GMF will help students to know CHTI business issues in their facing challenging and opportunities from the following different perspectives:
People – Enhancing and developing competencies to manage people across national and cultural boundaries.
Processes – Integrating knowledge development, product procurement, manufacturing, and distribution for a global supply chain.
Product design – Managing internal and external environments such as globally-dispersed stakeholders, corporate vision, and cross-border regulations in targeted international market.


Introduction to IBM Business Leadership Model

This Global Management Forum course is focusing on the challenges and opportunities associated with Chung-Hwa Telecomm. International BU (CHTI) organizational management expansion and business strategy particular in the Asia Pacific region.
We will teach and use IBM business leadership model (BLM) as the core form Driving Strategy into Action based on the information provided by CHTI.
BLM can help to explore business enterprise strategic management models that are developed from this framework and identify how the discrepancy between a company’s current situation and its goals drives the organization to be flexible in employing a set of strategic execution formulas.
Analysis performed under the structure of the business leadership model divides the concept of strategy into strategic intent, marketplace insight, innovation focus, and business design; the concept of execution is divided into talent, formal organization, critical task, climate and culture.
We will include exploring the topic of strategic management theory and the difference in applied models used by CHTI and also look at actual examples from CHTI and explore how students can use BLM framework to bring about internal adjustments in strategy when faced with gaps in performance.
We plan to invite CHTI responsible managers to conduct in-depth introduction session and interviews with supervisors of relevant departments who have decision-making authority in CHTI company.
Our major goal is to confirm the BLM that were applied and how they were actually able to help the company achieve competitive advantages.
The course is intended to be a challenging upper-level class for students who wish to explore the telecom. Industries exciting domain of globalization with a specific view on the future.
Students will gain a general overview of the company competitiveness worldwide. We will take opportunities to visit CHTI and their daily operation in real life.
Students will engage in active research and analytical problem solving related to select business extension in the global region for future growth.