General

The Managing Food and Beverage Innovation (MFBI) Diploma program builds capabilities in managers and organizations that enable them to generate sustainable, organic growth through innovation.
The program delivers measurable and effective impact for the individual and the organization through:

• Industry relevant content
• Relevant and real home company assignments, with the potential to deliver economic value and develop your ability to use new knowledge repeatedly in your job
• Support of your career development
• Provision of frameworks for innovation in a strategic context, including how to build and implement an innovation strategy, resulting in innovation efforts that are strategically aligned, different from the competition (delivering relevant, new consumer benefits supporting brand value), planned over time and in resources, and are effective, efficient and transparent to the organization
• Building of capabilities and supporting tools for driving innovation through the organization, not only through functions
• Development of understanding of and capability to manage the change process involved to implement innovation internally and externally

The program builds immediate value for the sponsoring company because participants work on company specific projects. These projects provide an opportunity to use learning from the program to benefit the home company. This process is facilitated by faculty and SIMI under strict confidentiality.

Course structure: 4 modules of 3 - 4 days

Duration & Program structure: Dates to be determined, please contact SIMI for further information