IMD Annual Report 2019

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IMD ANNUAL REPORT 2019

Twomore strategically important realizations in 2019 IMD NEXUS - a new flexible, customizable platform One of the ideas we inherited from IMI, one of the two schools that merged 30 years ago to become IMD, was the Corporate Learning Network. The CLN, as it became known, gathered a group of companies with whom we had sustained relationships – a group of corporate partners. These corporate partners subscribed to a certain level of sponsorship and received a range of corresponding benefits. This was an excellent idea that, we realized in 2017 and 2018, needed to be re-energized. 2019 became the piloting and testing phase of our new IMD NEXUS platform - the updated, reimagined and enhanced successor to our Corporate Learning Network. IMD NEXUS, which will go live in 2020, is designed to offer its members a fully customizable, flexible and long-termaccess to our entire ecosystem of capabilities through blended, online and face-to-face learning experiences and events, covering: • ADVISORY • EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT • GLOBAL NETWORK • RESEARCH • IMPACT SUITE

Over the last few years, several of our large corporate partners have told us that they intend to concentrate their activities on a smaller number of suppliers/partners. To be one of these few trusted advisors, we need to continue to approach our partners with honesty and generosity, of course, but we also need to be able to offer a sufficiently wide and coherent set of products and services. IMD NEXUS will provide us with this platform.