Diploma in Decalogue Management Program

The entrepreneurship journey involves constant problem solving and navigating uncertainties – building the entrepreneurial team, attracting resources, turning ideas into opportunities, rapid prototyping, and testing business models that can achieve scale profitably. 
If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and dream of working for yourself, our Entrepreneurship Management diploma program might be the perfect fit to help you achieve your goals. During the program, you’ll develop, accelerate or help mature your business and get feedback to launch your dream results. 

CGSE supports entrepreneurial spirit development and offers resources to help you start your own sustainable business using the Decalogue Management Methodology.

Course Outlook

This course is designed for entrepreneurs already, or soon to be entrepreneurs. Our Entrepreneurship Management program will help you in two years, to learn everything you need to know about creating a systemic business that succeeds even against the current trends.

Our faculty and community will support you every step of the way as you get ready to take your business or idea to the next level.

Here are some skills you’ll be able to show off after completion of the Entrepreneurship Management program:

  • Quality – what allows organisations to take a place of prominence, which is grounded in the belief that management in any shape or form is prediction. 
  • Flow is the results of our actions; flow of materials, information and money. It is associated with the pace of change.
  • Involvement of people enables quality and flow. The foundation for any involvement is the teamwork that allows organisational systems to function. 

In this 2 year program, we accept students coming in after completion of high school, from  College/University, Work or entrepreneurs currently running their own businesses. 

Our students are part of the generation that is solving the world’s greatest challenges.

Expert Faculty
Taught by two leading entrepreneurship researchers with decades of experience in the field.

Hybrid Options (In-Person & Online)
Learn alongside global peers during inperson and live online sessions, and benefit from weekly office hours with faculty.

Unique Learning Opportunities Found ONLY at CGSE

Beyond the classroom, your learning extends through conversations with aspiring entrepreneurs and innovative entrepreneurial leaders who are having a positive impact around the world.

Global Network: In an increasingly global world, CGSE believes it is important to have a student population that reflects international diversity. You will meet students with a wide range of cultural perspectives and experiences.

World-class Faculty: Participants will have the unique opportunity to learn from CGSE faculty, who are not only educators but also entrepreneurs and experts in their fields. CGSE professors have their finger on the pulse of the industries and opportunities that CGSE students care about. .

Management Ecosystem: The world needs robust managers now, more than ever before. As jobs and entire industries disrupt and evolve, people at all stages of their lives and careers must think and act like entrepreneurs in order to thrive. 

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Course Schedule

Module One: Building an awareness of systems: (Semester I)

  1. An introduction to business complexity
  2. The systems view of a business as an organization
  3. An introduction to business systemic thinking processes
     – Conflict cloud – resolving any business conflict
     – Solving day-to-day conflicts
     – Solving dilemmas
  4. Processes of and learning build your business as a system
  5. Describing business processes using the Transition Tree (TRT) tool

Module Two: Managing the system to build quality, involvement, and flow: (Semester II)

  1. Understanding business variation (what it is and what causes it)
  2. Measuring and monitoring business variation through statistical process control
  3. Managing your business as an organization through a constraint (the simulator)
  4. Developing a Buffer management for your business
  5. Systemic project management: Use the Critical Chain tool
  6. Planning and succeeding in your business as a project using the PRT and TRT
  7. Systemic business management and thinking skills:
    Core conflict cloud: from undesirable effects to the core conflict resolving the core conflict with systemic solutions (injections)

 

Module Three: Measures and measurement system for creating value through the value chain: (Semester III)

  1. Understanding value and profitability: Product P & Q
  2. Accounting for growth: throughput accounting (as previously stated,
    throughput accounting is not a replacement for traditional accounting but needs to be understood and applied in parallel in order to inform strategy and decisions)
  3. Creating value through marketing and sales by selling the capacity of the system: external constraint
  4. Continuous breakthrough and new product innovation: using the core
    conflict cloud to build innovation and new products

 

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Module Four: Planning and managing the transformation:(Semester IV)

  1. Building the path for business transformation: Future Reality Tree FRT tool
  2. Avoiding business pitfalls in Business: Using Negative Branch NBR Tool
  3. Highlighting the project-based nature of the Transformation through the application of all the Thinking Process Tools to the realization of a project.
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Module Five: Project Start a sustainable business (Semester V)

  1. Use the 10 steps of the Decalogue Management Methodology to launch or grow an existing business 
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What You Need to Know

Create an account and follow the General Application instructions. 

Admission Requirements
A Bachelor’s degree or demonstrated relevant work experience (resumé and references required).

How to Apply
Domestic and International students should apply through CGSE Application Portal

Tuition
The program cost is USD $1295 (+ $50 application fee). The program is delivered physical and online.

A 5% discount is available for CIRMI  members. 

Applicants must submit a nonrefundable $50 application fee when they submit their application. 

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Interested in applying to CSE Program?
Below are some frequently asked questions from students, parents, and educators.

Is the program in-person?
The program has options for both fully in-person and for virtual and delivered online. There is housing available for those interested in in-person option where as online students do not need accommodation  and there is no on-campus component.

Who can apply to CSE ?
The program is designed for entrepreneurs, rising entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs to be. Each applicant must be age 21 or older by the start of the program. Unfortunately, we are unable to make exceptions to the eligibility requirements.

What is the English proficiency requirement for international students?
Generally, international students are required to submit one of the following on the “Test Scores” page of our application:

  • The online Duolingo English Test
  • TOEFL
  • IELTS
  • Cambridge Assessment English Qualifications

    The minimum score is 90 for TOEFL or 110 for Duolingo (or the equivalent on a different test)

You are NOT required to submit an English test score if any of these apply to you:

  • You are a Kenyan domestic student
  • You are an international student, but English is your native language
  • You are an international student, but English is the language of instruction at your school

Can I apply without official transcripts?
In the application, you will provide contact information for a school official who will be notified and asked to upload your official transcript. Your application is not complete until your transcript has been received. Transcripts must be received by the application deadline.

What will my day look like?
Our online format provides a rich opportunity to engage with peers from around the world. We provide the same quality instruction that you would receive in the classroom, with greater flexibility for you to interact with your team and instructors. Through live class sessions, asynchronous learning, and group meetings with professors, you will work on projects with your peers, completing both team and individual homework assignments. Assignments are spaced throughout the month, and regular check-in meetings with professors and near-peer mentors will help keep you on track. The program is designed to serve our global cohort of students.

If I don’t get accepted into CSE Program, can I still apply to CSE’s  diploma program?
Yes, absolutely. Please don’t let this deter you from applying to the CSE certificate & diploma Program.

Can I get a refund on my Application fee?
The application fee and deposit are nonrefundable.

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