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California Institute of Technology
Industrial Relations Center
1999 Executive Education Profile
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ITEM
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1998-99
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1993-94
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% change
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Number of executive nondegree programs
(excluding multiple sessions of the same program)
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30
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N/A
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N/A
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Number of executives attending above programs
(not including EMBA or part-time degree programs)
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1886
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N/A
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N/A
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Percent of attending executives
who live within 45 miles of the school
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27%
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N/A
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N/A
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Percent of attending executives
who live or work overseas
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2%
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N/A
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N/A
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Total participant days
(total participants x total length of programs)
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4255
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N/A
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N/A
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Percent of professors with at least 5 years full-time corporate experience
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93%
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N/A
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N/A
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Total revenues generated by "nondegree" executive education programs
(including open enrollment and custom programs)
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$4,210,400
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N/A
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N/A
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Total budget for nondegree executive education
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$4,210,400
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N/A
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N/A
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Percent of overall executive education revenue that comes from custom programs to a single company
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22%
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N/A
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N/A
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Percent of total revenues coming from custom programs to a specific group of companies or a consortium
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0%
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N/A
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N/A
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Number of custom programs run
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67
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N/A
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N/A
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Total revenues generated from custom programs
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$936,960
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N/A
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N/A
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Percent of participants from organizations with whom school has done business for three or more years
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51%
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N/A
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N/A
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Full course title
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Management of Technology and Innovation
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Type of course
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Exec. Leadership, R&D, Engrng., Program/Prod.Mgt.
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Course length
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5 days
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Class times
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February, June, October
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Description
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This program explores: leading and motivating R&D teams; staffing the innovation process; technology transfer and management of technical communications and information; managing long-term technical efforts; organizational design and culture for innovation and technology change; managing the marketing/technology interface; enhancing the commercialization of R&D; effective decision making under uncertainty; product life cycle management; patterns of product and process innovation; and management through periods of organizational discontinuity.
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Full course title
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Streamlining the Product Development Process
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Type of course
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R&D, Engrng., Prod.& Ops, Prod. Dev.,Gen. Mgt.
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Course length
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2 days
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Class times
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5 times/year
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Description
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This course explores: quantifying the value of cycle time reduction and other process objectives; developing decision rules to guide the process; understanding process queues; product development as a system; establishing organizational roles and responsibilities for product development; using product architecture for process improvement; generating useful product specs; process measurement; and managing uncertainty and risk.
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Full course title
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Strategic Marketing of Technology Products
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Type of course
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Marketing, General Management, Product Management
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Course length
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2 days
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Class times
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6 times/year
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Description
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This course tackles the market leadership process; target customer identification; whole product concept; market differentiation and segmentation; market "camp" development and feedback; and the strategic customer relationship.
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Full course title
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Integrated Strategic Planning
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Type of course
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Gen. Mgt., Strat. Planning, R&D, Production, Mktg.
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Course length
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2 days
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Class times
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4 times/year
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Description
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This course explores strategic thinking and vision; building functional strategies; tying functional plans and overall strategy into an integrated whole; tools for developing an integrated plan; focusing on opportunities; determining the competitive edge; and implementing the process and translating into operating plans, actions and budgets.
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Full course title
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Strategic Pricing: a Value-based Approach
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Type of course
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Marketing, Strategic Planning, General Management
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Course length
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2 days
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Class times
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4 times/year
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Description
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This course examines the fundamentals of pricing and capturing value; the role of costs, competition and customer value in setting price; managing price through the technology or product life cycle; market segmentation and measuring customer value; improving price, especially during periods of low inflation and under global price pressure; stemming price erosion; integrating pricing decisions with strategic business and marketing objectives; and pricing workshop.
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Full course title
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Manufacturing Cost Strategies
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Type of course
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Finance and Acct., Production, General Mgt.
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Course length
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2 days(extended days)
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Class times
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4 times/year
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Description
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This course explores the elements of a comprehensive cost management strategy; identifying major cost drivers; finding and eliminating non-value adding activities; costing a product in a virtual factory environment; better methods of allocating burden and overhead; finding a product's real cost; and activity based costing (ABC) and management.
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Full course title
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Supplier Mangement
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Type of course
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Procurement, Prod.& Ops., Materiel, Gen. Mgt.
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Course length
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2 days
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Class times
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5 times/year
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Description
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This course looks at integrating core competencies and outsourcing; effectively managing suppliers for mutual benefit; developing commodity team approaches to strategic sourcing; performance measurement; supplier quality management; benchmarking; best practices in supplier management; and motivating and rewarding best suppliers.
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Full course title
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Successful Project Management
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Type of course
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Project Mgt., Engineering, R&D, Product Dev.
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Course length
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3 days
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Class times
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4 times/year
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Description
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This course evaluates project organization; roles, responsibilities and work breakdown structures(WBS); project planning and control tools; risk and uncertainty management; monitoring progress and problems; earned value techniques; managing changes and replanning; using contingency allowances; and obtaining commitment from management, team and support organizations.
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Full course title
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Strategic Alliances
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Type of course
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Executive and General Mgt., Program Management
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Course length
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2 days
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Class times
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4 times/year
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Description
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This course explores defining the strategic alliance; linkage to corporate strategy; assessing partner strategic fit and mutual objectives; matching and balancing core competencies; determining success criteria; creating an implementation plan; the candidate search and selection process; and integrating and managing the alliance, adjusting to relationship changes over time.
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Full course title
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Customer Focused Technology Management
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Type of course
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Gen. Mgt., R&D, Engrng., Product/Prog. Mgt.
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Course length
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2 days
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Class times
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3 times/year
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Description
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This course explores technology as a strategic resource; increasing the value of technology investments; using customer focussed technology planning(CFTP) to identify market opportunities; prioritizing R&D projects and balancing the technology portfolio; and leveraging technology investments in internal and external ventures.
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New Open-Enrollment Programs
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New courses launched within past 2 years
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Strategic Pricing: A Value-based Approach
Flow-based Operations
Taking Technology Products to Market
Selling Technology Products: A Systems Approach
Excelling in Customer Support Operations
Partnering with Chinese Business
Merger and Acquisition Integration
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Overseas Programs / Partners
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Program
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Cal Tech does not currently run any overseas programs; It has run numerous in the past, however.
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Country
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Israel, Mexico, Ireland, Australia, N.Z.
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Partner
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No partners
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Year established
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None
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Non-University Partnerships
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Program
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None at present
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Partner
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None
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Year established
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None
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Distance courses offered or planned
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Cal Tech has no immediate plans to integrate the Internet into its programs. The school believes that the Internet is best suited at present for individual learning; it is not yet widely used or applicable to "peer" or team learning.
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Nondegree functional
programs
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The Boeing Company
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Northrop Grumman Corp.
Lucent Technologies, Inc.
Southern California Edison Co.
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Nondegree general
programs
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Northrop Grumman Corp.
Sverdrup Corp.
Amgen, Inc.
Analog Devices
Harris Semiconductor
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Custom programs to a single company or consortium
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Northrop Grumman Corp.
Southern CAlifornia Edison Co.
The Boeing Company
Sandia National Laboratories
Metropolitan Water District
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Organizations school has done business with for three or more years
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Sandia National Laboratories
The Boeing Company
Southern California Edison
Lucent Technologies
Cisco Systems
Unisys Corp.
Seagate Technology
AT&T
Allied Signal Co.
Rockwell Corp.
Textron Aerospace
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Walt Disney Imagineering
Amgen, Inc.
plus 400 more companies
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Date of
construction
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1962
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Number of classrooms
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5
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Cost
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$489,000
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Comments
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New Courses: Plan to open 3-4 per year in the areas of emerging executive interest e.g. Internet commerce, global operations, strategic marketing, technological innovation, and software project management.
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