Introduction

How to compete for visitors and resources in an increasingly complex and changing market?

What elements should be encouraged to create your own identity and market your cultural brand?

How to develop the relationship between arts and business to create a stable partnership that benefits both.

IESE has designed and is now launching an international program aimed at cultural institutions and those businesses that invest in culture. The objective is to establish a new form of relationship between the worlds of business and culture with the emphasis on the ability of cultural activity to generate wealth and social cohesion.

These days, leading a cultural institution involves providing visitors with a wide range of activities whilest managing business areas far removed from the traditional artistic disciplines and in competition with other entities. The program provides a distinct methodology for examining the resources, the mission, opportunities and challenges of cultural institutions to allow participants to set goals and implement new strategies.

Public administrations and companies are actively involved in the development of the arts. A better understanding of the cultural framework will allow them to work together to develop profitable projects whose contribution is in line with their strategies whilest ensuring greater impact and recognition by society.

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Key Take-Aways

Global trends in the arts
Analysis of the major factors that are affecting the situation of culture in the world, including demographics, wealth distribution, economic and urban development and sponsorship.

Strategic alternatives for the future
We will analyze the future identity that cultural institutions might adopt. What is the service they can offer? How can you offer this?

Branding of cultural institutions
The brand of many cultural institutions has a great potential to generate revenue. This module will focus on brand management of cultural institutions.

How to be self-sufficient in funding. Companies and Sponsors
The acquisition of one’s own resources allows for greater capacity and autonomy of action. Through real-life cases we will be studying strategies for self-financing and thus new formulas for business participation.

Reinventing operations
This section deals with everything related to public needs and development of those technologies related to visitors and the management of their visit.

Artists and managers
We will focus on the management of staff of high intellectual level, including career development, compensation systems and management styles.

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Methodology

The program will employ the case method, using specially developed materials relating to specific cultural institutions in order to examine the very latest management trends.

In addition, we will analyze future trends in a global and international context with panels of experts who will discuss these issues with participants.

Learning from experience

The case method is a system of active learning widely used in management training. The participant will receive a description of a real situation for which they must make a decision. Via their own analysis, they will need to propose alternative courses of action, choose the most appropriate, and then design a realistic plan for its implementation.

The central thread of the program will be the exchange of ideas between the business world and the world of culture.

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Benefits

The participants will:

• interact with innovative individuals from  business and culture drawn from the international scene.

• be introduced to new ideas and techniques to improve the operation of their institutions.

• learn effective strategies to build innovative partnerships between culture and business, as well as how to encourage creative work environments and communities.

• have access to the latest trends and strategies to become more competitive and improve the services they offer.

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Who Should Attend

The program will be of greatest benefit to those occupying positions of responsibility in the arts and creative industries: directors and other senior managers of cultural institutions, corporate foundations, public administrations, consultants, promoters and producers.

SCR managers and directors, and non-profit sector organizations that develop action programs through investment in culture.

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Sponsors

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Faculty

	Beatriz Muñoz-Seca  Academic Director  Professor of Production, Technology and Operations Management, IESE Ph.D., University of Navarra. Masters in Education (Organizational Behavior), Harvard University.
	Josep Riverola  Academic Director  Professor Emeritus of Production, Technology and Operations Management, IESE Ph.D. in Textile Industries, ETSII Terrassa. PhD and Masters (Operations Research), Stanford University.
	Santiago Álvarez de Mon Professor of Managing People in Organizations, IESE Ph.D. in Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca. Masters in Economics and Business Administration, IESE, Universidad de Navarra.
	Adrian Caldart Professor of Strategic Management, IESE Ph.D. in Management, IESE.  M. Sc. in Management and Economics, ESEADE. BA in Management, Universidad Católica Argentina.
	Francisco Iniesta Professor of Marketing, IESE Ph.D. in Business Administration, Boston University. Masters in Economics and Business Administration, IESE, Universidad de Navarra.
	Philip Moscoso Professor of Production, Technology and Operations Management, IESE Ph.Dd. in Industrial Engineering and Management, ETH Zurich. Masters in Chemical Engineering, ETH Zurich.
	Antoni Subirà Professor Emeritus of Financial Management, IESE Ph.D.d in Industrial Engineering, E.T.S.I.I. Terrassa. Masters in Industrial Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	Elvira Marco  Program's Director  Elvira Marco has a degree in Law from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a degree in Political Science and PublicAdministration from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. With extensive experience in the arts field, she has worked for long periods with the Spanish Government, where she served as Secretary General of the Spanish Agency for Cultural Action Abroad (SEACEX), promoting Spanish culture in cooperation with major international cultural institutions. She currently works as a consultant, lectures on arts management and cultural diplomacy, and is a regular contributor to specialized cultural journals.

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