ICT Global Executive Development Programme
[ Last Updated 14 October 2005 ]
The ICT Taskforce identified the single biggest constraint to the growth of New Zealand ICT companies as being the shortage of skilled leaders and marketing/sales executives with the experience appropriate to take a company global.
Without these skills many ICT companies appear to grow rapidly to the $10 to $15 million sales level (and up to $30 million for electronics companies) and then hit a barrier. The nature of the barrier is two fold:
- The small size of the New Zealand market means that New Zealand companies have to expand into international markets in order to maintain growth, while still very small by global standards; and
- Continued growth beyond the barrier requires a transformation of the company requiring a more formal management structure and a more sophisticated set of skills.
The taskforce recommended that the ICT industry design and implement a leadership and executive development programme, with a strong mentoring focus, for executives that were approaching their barrier.
A global executive development programme has been developed by the NZTE-selected training company The Icehouse, to provide business leaders in the ICT industry with the skills needed to take their companies international. The "GoGlobal" programme includes the development of a facilitated online community.
The programme is tightly targeted at the chief executives of high-growth, globally-oriented companies that have a turnover of typically less than $30 million per annum. A pilot programme will begin in November 2003.
Total cost: $500 000 over three years
Contact: ICT Sector Specialist - Craig Taylor, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise 04-910 4657
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