FT Ranking:TiasNimbas Business School 1st Place in the Benelux
29 May 2008
This week the Financial Times presented the 2008 ranking of business schools offering tailor-made programmes. With its Company Specific Programmes (CSP), TiasNimbas Business School lists #1 on the ranking in the Benelux and #36 worldwide. The business school has moved up 20 places during the last two years.
Other business schools within the Benelux are RSM Erasmus University on #53 and Vlerick Management School on #45.
Zero-based thinking
The FT ranking is determined on the basis of the weighted average in a couple of different categories. The Business School achieved 6th place worldwide in the category ‘Future Use’ (an indication for client satisfaction) and in ‘Overseas Programmes’ they ranked 4th worldwide. Prof.dr. Filip Caeldries, associate dean of TiasNimbas Business School and since 1997 responsible for the tailor made programmes, links its success to the continuous efforts of TiasNimbas to deliver “just that extra step”. Prejudice does not befit this: “When we engage in conversations with organizations, we start with an empty piece of paper and ask those questions essential for each organization. What moves you? Where do you want to go? We call this zero-based thinking. Even though we are led by our experience and capacities, we do not come with standard solutions. And we see this in the rankings.”
A Strategic Ruler
Ivo
van Bilsen MSc, Vice President Management & Talent Development
Rabobank Nederland, understands the acknowledgement of TiasNimbas
Business School in the rankings: “More than a year ago we set up a
programme together with the business school and it works very well. The
programme is made on the basis of academic backgrounds and specific
cases based on our own organization. A selected group of managers
follows a Company Specific programme. With the acquired knowledge they
will proactively take a close look at the organization and search for
possibilities for further improvements. In this way we continuously
measure ourselves with a qualitative ruler and with the help of
TiasNimbas.”
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