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Program Overview:
This course provides professionals a firm basis to determine whether the startup business has sufficient merit to continue into more detailed phase. This is achieved by means of a feasibility study. A well-developed feasibility study is an essential foundation to allow business analysis and design activities to commence in a focused manner. It either refines a business case by examining the range of possible options and potential issues or forms a basis for its development.
Feasibility studies address issues that could influence the success of a potential business or projects and assess the advantages and disadvantages of each option so they can be ranked. The end product of the study is a clear, concise report which presents the proposed project’s objectives, with conclusions and recommendations for the next phase.

Target Audience: 
This course is designed for anyone involved with projects, business ventures or new business ideas. If you need to understand how to streamline the process of evaluating a feasibility study’s outcomes to aid towards solid decision making, you will benefit from attending.

Program Learning Outcomes:
•    Solid understanding of the need, function, and types of Feasibility Studies
•    Understanding of the Market Analysis 
•    Understanding of the Technical Analysis 
•    Understanding of the Financial Analysis 
•    Reporting writing skills requirements for Feasibility Report

Program Overview
The SIDF Lean Manufacturing Program aims the provide training and then practical application of the Lean Manufacturing Tools & Techniques. Starting with classroom training to build understanding of the Lean Manufacturing tools and techniques, then helping the participants to apply these learnings to their own factory and to improve their own process through application of the tools and support and coaching to maximize both the learnings and benefits. 

Target Audience 
Manufacturing Companies wanting to improve their Operational Performance.
Content aimed at Owners, Production Managers, Operations Managers and SIDF Employees

Program Outcomes
1.    Participants will build the capability to Optimize, People, Processes & Assets is essential to build sustainable & competitive industry. Lean Manufacturing enhances the capability to develop operations that use performance intelligence to improve agility, reliability, and efficiency building operational resilience and competitiveness by improving productivity and quality whilst reducing waste & costs. 
2.    Participants will then be supported in the practical application of these tools and techniques to generate real improvements for their own business. It is the foundation for automation and digitization.

Program Overview
Operational Excellence combines proven methodologies with modern digital tools to achieve superior manufacturing performance. This workshop covers the fundamentals of process optimization and waste reduction, Lean Six Sigma concepts, and how digital technologies including MES and real-time analytics that accelerate operational improvement. Participants will leave with a clear roadmap for implementing technology-driven excellence initiatives with measurable return on investment.

Target Audience
Manufacturing professionals & Engineers in operations, quality, maintenance, or production roles
Individuals seeking to integrate Industry 4.0 technologies into their operational frameworks

Program Outcomes
1.    Operational Excellence Fundamentals: Understand the core principles of Operational Excellence, including process optimization, waste reduction, and continuous improvement culture
2.    Digital Transformation & OpEx: Recognize how digital technologies transform operations and drive excellence
3.    MES Functions & Impact: Understand how MES capabilities support real-time decision-making and operational improvement
4.    Lean Six Sigma Methodologies: Apply foundational Lean Six Sigma concepts to identify and eliminate waste
5.    Technology Roadmap & ROI: Develop a strategic roadmap for technology adoption with measurable return on investment

     

Program Overview
This executive program aims to elevate participants’ expertise in sales and marketing and delivers a holistic understanding of market dynamics, strategic marketing, and sales force optimization, fostering strategic thinking and tactical proficiency to lead their organizations towards growth and success.  

Target Audience
Senior Manager at general management level or heading sales or marketing functions in their organizations. 
Executives working in professional service organizations wish to improve their ability to design and deliver outstanding customer experience. 
Executives in B2B industries are seeking to develop successful business strategies in today’s agile and digital world.

Program Outcomes
1.    Understand the fundamentals of market and sales analytics, marketing strategies, branding, and sales excellence.    
2.    Ability to use learnt methods and tools to analyze the market, brand, and sales metrics and dynamics. 
3.    Understand the essentials of a customer-centric organization 
4.    Understand the essentials of performance management and resource deployment

Program Overview
Effective project management skills are becoming increasingly important to everyone regardless to their position or background. Organizations need employees with great project management skills at all levels to successfully deliver the projects that will enable the business to grow and achieve its strategic objectives. This introductory course builds a solid foundation by providing an essential overview of the core project management skills that required to deliver successful small to medium size projects professionally.

Target Audience
Team lead, Managers, potential project managers, or team members who wish to gain insight into the world of project management.

Program Outcomes
1.    Increasing projects success rate by Understanding the use of many projects management tools
2.    Ability to estimate and organize any assignment, task, or project accurately and professionally
3.    Define the differences between project and operational work
4.    Understand and Utilize Prince2 Change Model
5.    Identify a structured project activities using WBS
6.    Understand how to build a project schedule using Gantt Chart
7.    Identify project risks and assign mitigating actions
8.    Conduct full Stakeholder Analysis
9.    Understand how to control a project and handle requests for change
10.    Understand the basics of motivating team members
11.    Boosting soft skills to be better representative for your organization
12.    Learn about employee engagement and its impact on performance

Program Overview
The Organizational Excellence Program has emerged in response to the growing need to enhance organizational performance and improve operational and administrative efficiency. This ensures the achievement of sustainable results that strengthen competitiveness and the quality of services. The program focuses on enabling participants to understand the concepts of organizational excellence and modern models, and to apply best practices in strategic planning, performance management, process improvement, and results measurement. This contributes to building an organizational culture rooted in quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Target Audience
Professionals in strategic planning and performance management.

Program Outcomes
1.    Comprehend and practically apply the concepts and models of organizational excellence.
2.    Analyze the current situation of the organization and identify strengths and improvement opportunities.
3.    Contribute to preparing improvement plans based on clear methodologies.
4.    Link organizational initiatives to measurable performance indicators.
5.    Support work teams in implementing excellence and continuous improvement practices.
6.    Enhance service quality and increase the satisfaction of beneficiaries and stakeholders.

Program Overview
The Market Study Program is comprehensive training designed to equip participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct effective market research. Spanning three days, the program covers foundational concepts, advanced research techniques, practical applications, and case studies. Participants will learn how to design and implement market studies, analyze data, and translate findings into actionable business strategies.  

Target Audience
Marketing professionals and analysts, Business analysts, Managers use data insights to make business decisions, Account managers, Product managers.  

Program Outcomes
1.    Understand the key concepts and importance of market studies. 
2.    Design and implement effective market research methodologies. 
3.    Conduct qualitative and quantitative data collection. 
4.    Analyze market data using appropriate statistical tools and techniques. 
5.    Translate research findings into actionable business strategies. 
6.    Collaborate on practical market studies and case analyses. 
7.    Present insights and recommendations effectively to stakeholders.

Program Overview
CMA® (Certified Management Accountant) is a professional certification awarded by the prestigious IMA® (Institute of Management accountants), dedicated to the management accounting profession. It has become the benchmark for measuring an individual’s knowledge and skills in the field of management accounting and is globally recognized. CMA professionals play a key role in the financial sector of any organization hence contributing to its growth. 
SIDF Academy, being IMA’s approved platinum CMA course provider, ensures the highest quality of exam preparation to earn your certification. 

Target Audience
CMA course is suitable for professionals who wish to acquire advanced skills in strategic financial management, thereby opening a door for multiple career opportunities.
Fresh graduates having the dream of becoming management accounting professionals.

Program Outcomes
1.     Financial decision & analysis 
2.    Strategy, planning & performance. 
3.    Professional ethics & values

Program Overview
Budgeting and cost controls are imperative   for the management of contemporary organizations. In order to stay competitive, firms make sure that their sought-after strategies have sufficient resource allocation and performance measurement. To achieve this objective, cost control through efficient budgeting is of paramount importance. In addressing these issues, this training course provides participants with the budgeting process and management and draws upon the cost control mechanism with appropriate accountability.  In a friendly person to person style, this program deals with tactical issues in budgeting, includes examples and covers all aspects of budgeting & control: income, expense, production, projects and the like.

Target Audience
 Junior managers, supervisors and analysts who prepare or use financial budgets.

Program Outcomes
1.    Understand budgeting fundamentals in small enterprises
2.    Build a solid foundation in how budgeting supports financial stability, decision making, and growth in small business environments.
3.    Examine budgeting methodologies and practical approaches
4.    Explore different budgeting methods such as incremental, zero based, and activity-based budgeting, and understand when and how to apply each.
5.    Apply budgeting techniques for effective cost control
6.    Use learned tools and methods to plan budgets, monitor expenditures, analyze variances, and improve cost management in real work scenarios.

Program Overview
 Demand forecasting involves using historical data to estimate and predict future demand by predictive analytics. Thus, it helps individuals to make better - informed decisions in the areas like sales & marketing, budgeting, production planning, inventory and supply chain management for the organization. This course is intended towards understanding the basic and advanced techniques of time-series forecasting and their use in industries. Participants will learn how to read time-series data to build appropriate models for demand forecasting and to optimize the model parameters for forecast accuracy.

Target Audience
This program is primarily meant for senior specialist and supervisors working in planning, sales & marketing, budgeting and supply chain management areas to enable them to take data-driven decisions. 

Program Outcomes
1.    Develop an analytical mindset
2.    Building spreadsheet forecast models based on historical data 
3.    Optimization model parameters for forecast accuracy 
4.    Identify areas in organization where forecasting can be used for improvement

Program Overview
Understanding of Finance and accounting are needed for professional working in non- finance areas of organization for overall decision support. This knowledge is at the heart of every organization and is helpful to all decision makers. This learning path covers Fundamental knowledge of basic concepts at an introductory level of finance and accounting.  Focus of training is on understanding how financial accounting data needed at  an organization and how essential concepts can help to create familiarity with basic financial statements and that  this  data can be included in various reports. Discussion will include how financial statements are generated, reported, and used for financial analysis, decision making and control purpose. It is helpful to all professionals with little and no knowledge of finance and accounting to understand finance and accounting concepts to be more aware of performance matrices used by organizations.

Target Audience 
Professionals and functional managers who need know how of Accounting/Finance Terminology for developing needed concepts for understanding and evaluating performance on financial metrics and study reports with finance and accounting information

Program Outcomes
1.    Understand components of financial statements.
2.    Analyse the three financial statements: Balance sheet, Income statement and cash flow.
3.    Understand the essentials of budgeting and Working Capital Management
4.    Understand the essentials of the investment process. NPV and Capital Budgeting
5.    Understanding of Cash flow management for non-financial professionals

Program Overview
Understanding of Finance and accounting are needed for professional working in non- finance areas of organization for overall decision support. This knowledge is at the heart of every organization and is helpful to all decision makers. This learning path covers Fundamental knowledge of basic concepts at an introductory level of finance and accounting.  Focus of training is on understanding how financial accounting data needed at  an organization and how essential concepts can help to create familiarity with basic financial statements and that  this  data can be included in various reports. Discussion will include how financial statements are generated, reported, and used for financial analysis, decision making and control purpose. It is helpful to all professionals with little and no knowledge of finance and accounting to understand finance and accounting concepts to be more aware of performance matrices used by organizations.

Target Audience 
Professionals and functional managers who need know how of Accounting/Finance Terminology for developing needed concepts for understanding and evaluating performance on financial metrics and study reports with finance and accounting information

Program Outcomes
1.    Understand components of financial statements.
2.    Analyse the three financial statements: Balance sheet, Income statement and cash flow.
3.    Understand the essentials of budgeting and Working Capital Management
4.    Understand the essentials of the investment process. NPV and Capital Budgeting
5.    Understanding of Cash flow management for non-financial professionals

Program Overview
A practical training program that focuses on integrating sustainability into the business model by understanding its different dimensions and linking them to organizational strategy.

Target Audience
Professionals interested in sustainability in the industrial sector
Employees of the Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF)

Program Outcomes
1.    Understand the concept of business sustainability and its importance for modern organizations
2.    Differentiate between sustainability and philanthropy
3.    Link sustainability to organizational strategy
4.    Ability to read and understand sustainability reports

Program Overview
Finance and accounting are at the heart of every organization. This learning path covers the essentials of finance and accounting and how financial data is generated, reported, and used for financial analysis, decision making and control and is helpful to all professionals with little and no knowledge of finance and accounting. This course focuses on explaining the main SME finance principles, mainly focusing on credit risk analysis, the lending decision process and appropriate risk-taking intermediation as well as customer relationship management.

Target Audience
 Individuals who want to gain a basic understanding of finance and accounting concepts to know the core fundamentals of how money flows in a business and how to ‘read’ the financial statements.

Program Outcomes
1.    Understand the fundamentals of finance, investment, risk, budgeting, and accounting.
2.    Analyse the three financial statements: Balance sheet, Income statement and cash flow.
3.    Understand the essentials of budgeting.
4.    Understand the essentials of the investment process.
5.    Using different methods to analyse financial statements of a corporation.

Program Overview
CMA® (Certified Management Accountant) is a professional certification awarded by the prestigious IMA® (Institute of Management accountants), dedicated to the management accounting profession. It has become the benchmark for measuring an individual’s knowledge and skills in the field of management accounting and is globally recognized. CMA professionals play a key role in the financial sector of any organization hence contributing to its growth. 

Target Audience
CMA course is suitable for professionals who wish to acquire advanced skills in strategic financial management, thereby opening a door for multiple career opportunities.
Fresh graduates having the dream of becoming management accounting professionals.

Program Outcomes
1.     Financial decision & analysis 
2.    Strategy, planning & performance. 
3.    Professional ethics & values

Program Overview
The Change Management Program equips participants with essential concepts and frameworks for effective change management. It covers key models like Kotter’s 8-Step, ADKAR, and Lewin’s Change Model, focusing on leadership role, employee engagement, and evaluation of change initiatives. Through practical activities, including simulations and case studies, participants will learn to apply these principles in real world scenarios.  

Target Audience
A leader of change initiatives, a manager involved in a change initiative, or supporting your team in executing the strategy and spearheading a transformation. 

Program Outcomes
1.    Understand key change management concepts and frameworks. 
2.    Demonstrate effective leadership skills in managing change. 
3.    Engage employees in the change process. 
4.    Evaluate change initiatives using key performance indicators (KPIs). 
5.    Develop strategies for continuous improvement. 
6.    Create a personal change management plan tailored to organizational needs.