Hult Alumni Magazine | Page 60

ON CAMPUS What our alumni and course director say about the program: Felipi Barros Head of Strategy CFLD International MBA, Class of 2016 Dirk Wilfling Head of Product Management Alexa Germany/Austria Amazon Masters in International Business, Class of 2012 Anne Hirvonen Director, Manufacturing and Site Logistics Process Strategy BASF MBA, Class of 2017 My course highlights My course highlights My course highlights • The futurist exercise to understand trends and drivers for key industries • The diversity of represented industries and a great mix of Hult alumni and other senior executives • • Being given different creative insights and implementation strategies to tackle current challenges The opportunity to refresh my skills on how to approach today’s digital challenges and to be given a framework for the practical aspects of proceeding with digital strategy • It was a fantastic refresher of concepts taught at Hult presented from a new angle • The diversity of participants and the various professional backgrounds added • The opportunity to be inside Ferrari • The team did an amazing job of integrating an extra dimension to the discussions and and feel what the brand really stands for Ferrari’s world and experience with the provided excellent learning opportunities course curriculum by creatively exposing “As my company develops cities, the insights us to Ferrari’s history and future • Ferrari was a wonderful host. I learned from the course will be used to understand about very interesting aspects of the future dynamics for urban planning and city “We were presented with a framework to Ferrari manufacturing approach and their development. The course helped us upgrade develop innovative ideas that can be easily superior product quality our level of digitization and allowed us to applied to everyone’s professional life and understand what our stakeholders and existing team structures. Having this tool will “For an engineer like myself, it was a highly industry partners need in the future. The help me to more easily find the right narrative exciting experience. One of the key course gave us the opportunity to remove going forward. The program is a great way to messages was to avoid obsessing about ourselves temporarily from the day to day step back from your busy professional life for reaching 100% when crafting execution routine and think real strategies by exercising a very short period of time and to refresh strategies. It is much better to work in smaller, scenario planning, futurism, and problem concepts and strategies that are beneficial to more digestible steps. Above all, get solving. It also brought the students close to work in the long run. It also provides a great consumer feedback early so you can the Ferrari world, showing how a company networking opportunity to widen your continually improve. One can only visualize achieves incredible standards and stays horizons and create new innovative ideas.” how things will look and what customer on top.” needs will be in 15 years, so you have to come up with the best digital strategy and build that alternative scenario for the future.” “Ferrari is a very curious organization and we want to learn from the best practices. The program not only allows us to share our insights and learnings from Ferrari, but also enables us to receive course participants’ recommendations. It’s the Yin and Yang that makes this partnership with Hult work.” Dennis de Munck Head of Talent Acquisition, Ferrari S.p.a 60