IMD business school is holding its Orchestrating Winning Performance executive program from November 28 to December 2, 2016 at the luxurious Capella resort on Singapore's Sentosa Island. The program will culminate in a Mega Dive, a team brainstorming and prototyping exercise to develop solutions to business challenges. The intensive program covers topics like digital business, leadership, innovation, and strategy. It will include keynote speakers from SMRT and Bank Mandiri and the release of the third annual World Talent Report. IMD chose Capella to intensify the focus on learning away from everyday work issues.

1. Why Mega Diving with IMD at this Island Resort in November Doesn’t
Require a Wetsuit
SINGAPORE – September 28, 2016 – There’s a deep dive taking place where participants don’t get
wet. In fact, they don’t even get in the sea. Rather, they submerge themselves in a kind of business
knowledge that, much like underwater diving, promises new discovery while requiring some
decompression of old ideas and ongoing challenges. IMD business school announces a unique Mega
Dive experience to culminate its 2016 Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP) program in
Singapore.
Happening at Capella, a luxurious resort on Singapore’s Sentosa Island, IMD will hold its inspiring and
impactful OWP executive program from November 28 to December 2, 2016. The program’s finale will
be a Mega Dive: a giant team approach to developing solutions to challenges or opportunities by
combining brainstorming and prototyping. Capitalizing on the concentrated learnings of the prior days,
it will help the more than 100 executives participating to apply and retain their new knowledge.
Leading up to the Mega Dive, OWP Singapore offers an intensive and diverse schedule with topics
including digital business, leadership, innovation, strategy and family business. The program includes
two keynote speakers – Desmond Kuek Bak Chye, President and Group CEO of Singapore’s public
transport operator SMRT, and Kartika Wirjoatmodjo (Tiko), President Director and CEO of PT Bank
Mandiri, Indonesia. In addition, Professor Arturo Bris, Director of the IMD World Competitiveness
Center will release the third annual World Talent Report, presenting a ranking of countries on their
ability to develop, attract and retain talent.
This is the fourth year IMD runs OWP in Singapore and the second consecutive year at Capella.
Holding the program at Capella is done to intensify the focus on learning. “Executives need a place
where they can disconnect from the issues of everyday in order to fully focus on leading tomorrow,”
said IMD professor Mike Wade, co-director of the OWP program. “Capella makes for an inspiring
retreat location, much like the IMD campus in Lausanne.”
IMD delivers programs and services from key locations around the world. Since 2013, Singapore has
become an important hub for IMD’s executive education offering.
ABOUT IMD
IMD is a top-ranked business school with learning facilities in Switzerland and Singapore. We are the
experts in developing global leaders through high-impact executive education. We are 100% focused
on real-world executive development; we offer Swiss excellence with a global perspective; and we
have a flexible, customized, and effective approach.
Contact
Matthew Mortellaro
IMD business school
Lausanne
+41 21 618 03 52
matthew.mortellaro@imd.org
www.imd.org