Course Objective(s):

The participants will acquire the following dimensions:

• The nature of international business
• The rapid changes of international Business
• Who are the major actors in international business
• The relationship between trade and foreign direct investments and economic and social developments
• The success stories and their lessons in International Business and how they could be applied to the IGAD region
• How international and regional business management could become a driving force of innovations within the market and internally
• The sky is not the limit in a global world

Course Outcomes:

The participant will be able

• to integrate a strategic  development team,
• to ask the right questions,
• to identify strengths and weaknesses before entering into a new market and learn the risks /threats if nothing is done,
• to propose an organisation for covering the IGAD region
• The participant will acquire the experience of others who succeeded in growing within the IGAD region
• the analytical capacity of monitoring  the regional expansion and budgeting the investment