Co-Creating Custom Solutions

When your business requires a comprehensive, innovative executive development solution, you need a partner who can help you discover and clarify the challenges, identify the opportunities, and design and deliver a customized, cross-functional solution that a single-discipline approach can't match.

Michigan's Ross School of Business will work closely with you to create a solution customized to your specific needs. Our multidisciplinary approach offers clients around the world a dynamic new option to achieve extraordinary results in solving real business challenges and enhancing their executives' leadership skills.

Michigan offers access to the tremendous research-based intellectual capital of a world-class university, with virtually unlimited potential for high-impact collaboration across disciplines.

The essence of Michigan's unique custom program philosophy is our focus on establishing collaborative relationships with our clients--an approach that sets us apart from other executive development providers. This collaborative relationship creates a strategic alliance based on trust and reciprocal knowledge, in which our faculty experience the corporate spirit and intent of your organization and integrate your leadership goals and ideas into a Michigan framework. The result is the sum of the two great organizations' efforts--a powerful and impactful solution that delivers measurable results.

An ongoing commitment to your long-term success

Michigan programs go beyond the theoretical to deliver tangible, measurable results. In fact, our clients have found that executive education is an investment that can return many times its cost in added value to their organizations. We enter into each customized program relationship as an opportunity to establish a long-term executive education partnership to address your specific goals, challenges and executive development needs on an ongoing, proactive basis.

Whether you are growing your next-generation leadership team, integrating company divisions following a merger, launching new products, entering new markets, crafting a strategy or solving an operations challenge, our faculty will roll up their sleeves and work with you to build and implement practical, effective solutions.

Action Learning puts your custom solution to work immediately

Many of our custom programs feature Action Learning, the powerful teaching methodology developed at Michigan that applies business knowledge directly into the workplace to effect real, rapid change and measurable results. Custom program participants select real corporate projects of a manageable scope, and Michigan faculty leads participant teams in achieving practical results. Benefits of Action Learning include:

• Application of program concepts to real business issues
• Actionable recommendations on the project topic.
• Strengthening critical thinking and analysis skills.
• Creation of "internal specialists" to reduce reliance on outside consultants.

Put Michigan on your management team

Depending on your needs, our custom solutions can incorporate a wide variety of elements--classroom programs, action learning projects, web-based interactive sessions, executive coaching, guest speakers, consulting, executive forums and more--all custom-tailored to focus Michigan's expertise on your organization's success.

As you review your options and opportunities across the full spectrum of today's global business issues, consider how the world-class thought leaders at Michigan can deliver powerful, specific solutions customized to your unique situation. To arrange for a confidential review of your needs and custom program development planning, contact our Customer Service Department at 734.763.1000, or um.exec.ed@umich.edu.