Defining the Mini-MBA
Dive deeper into the makeup of the Mini-MBA and what makes this credential unique and beneficial in support of lifelong learning.
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Overview
In today’s fast-paced world of AI and social media, customer-centric alignment is essential yet one of the most challenging tasks for business leaders. It’s not just about strong customer service; it requires every function and level of the organization to work toward the same goal. This transformation, both in how companies engage customers and operate internally, ultimately defines corporate culture through the lens of customer experience.
The Mini-MBA in Customer-Centric Management (CCM) equips professionals with the tools, frameworks, and strategies to design and deliver experiences that delight customers while driving measurable business impact.
Through hands-on, case-driven, and interactive sessions, as well as class exercises, participants will learn about the latest research and best practices, as well as the most effective and ineffective approaches, taught by top industry experts. The CCM program will provide the best models for organizational alignment and true customer centricity.
Program Benefits
- Achieve the critical evolution of perspective from customer-conscious to customer focused. Leverage this centricity to reveal opportunities and goals that personally connect your brand to customers.
- Study a curriculum developed and taught by industry through leadership, who also brings real-world business experience. Achieve the shift to a holistic perspective, and how it informs strategy.
- Learn in a rigorous university environment and earn a program certificate as well as academic credits that can be applied toward future education goals.
Program Outcomes
- Lead your team to evaluate opportunities and design goals that reflect dedication to customer value, and equate business success with exceptional customer experience.
- Elevate your focus from tactical customer-satisfaction methodology tools to influencing company-wide cultural changes. Communicate across functions how this dynamic market shift requires centering success around delivering customer value.
- Introduce strategies and tools that help achieve goals such as exceptional service and customer loyalty. Track and articulate the bottom-line impact of a customer-centric brand.
Along with mastering new skills, our Mini-MBA credential comes with:
Certificate
Digital Badge
Credits
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Who Should Attend
If you are an experienced professional in traditional business management, this course offers an opportunity for formal training that will update your skills. Learn to adapt your business strategy and goals to center around the experience of the customer.
If you are early in your management career, our Mini-MBA in Customer-Centric Management will give you a solid foundation in what being an effective manager requires, with an orientation toward developing those skills in a customer-focused business.
Curriculum
This program will address the topics most critical to mastering customer-centric management.
A sampling of these topics include:
- Journey Mapping. Learn an abbreviated form of journey mapping that offers a comprehensive view of the customer’s experience throughout the relationship, gaining an overall understanding of the customer and their needs.
- Customer-Centric Leadership. Update your leadership style in a way that inspires your team and motivates across the organization to adopt and deliver a customer-centric business strategy.
- Personalizing Experience with Data and (Digital) Technology. Understand what an ideal technology stack looks like, and how to get it without draining your resources.
Questions about this program?
Please contact Vickie Anderson, Program Manager at (848) 445-9248 or vanderson@business.rutgers.edu.