IMD Annual Report 2019

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IMD enjoyed a record year delivering world-class and award-winning custom programs for organizations that seek expert help and knowledge to address specific challenges. In 2019, IMD continued to design and deliver high- impact customized learning journeys through face-to-face and online learning, coaching, discovery expeditions, innovation interventions, mega-dives and experiential leadership exercises. As the trusted learningpartner of choice for ambitious individuals and organizations, IMD fully tailors learning journeys that are delivered in the location of choice. Co-creating the journey with the client, IMD accelerates strategy implementations and drives change in organizations through a unique methodology and world-class faculty, coaches and learning managers - building individual and organizational capabilities needed to be successful today while preparing for the future. In a highly-competitive and fast-moving global business environment, where the up-skilling of executives is

position as the go-to partner for custom program support.

regarded as imperative, IMD maintains an edge by being a trusted and proven non- profit institution focused on corporate learners. IMD works on multiple fronts to help set the transformation agenda, develop leaders and achieve lasting impact through a holistic range of activities that tap into IMD’s whole learning ecosystem, such as: • Top team retreats • Board boosters • Large-scale innovation mega-dives • Pathbreaker and Pathfinder journeys • Discovery expeditions • High impact capability building journeys • Executive coaching and advisory services • Online programs Growth in revenue and new markets For themore than 15 consecutive years, IMD has been ranked in the top three executive education providers for its combined offering of open and custom programs. This sustained recognition of excellence has helped to drive and enhance the institution’s reputation and

As such, by taking on a slightly smaller number of programs this year, IMDwasable todevelop more in-depth and broader collaborations with a range of organizations and to increase earnings from custom programs by 10 percent compared to the previous year. IMD delivered 248 custom programs, with 55 percent at the client’s location and 45 percent on campus, to address its clients’ strategy acceleration and develop essential competencies to face the business challenges of today and tomorrow. As IMD continues to expand its global footprint, growth in programs in the Middle East jumped by 35 percent. Siam Commercial Bank - detailed in the case study Accelerating Digital Transformation at Thailand’s Oldest Bank - won the 2019 EFMD Excellence in Practice Gold award in the organizational development category. IMD’s work with