The Part-time MSc programmes, also known as the Integrated Graduate Development Scheme (IGDS), offered by WMG have been designed in partnership with engineering, manufacturing and other technology based businesses to meet the needs of professional managers, engineers or scientists. The programmes provide participant companies with the opportunity to bridge the divide between specialist technical MSc courses and traditional MBAs in order to develop an employee's effective management capability. The part-time MSc programmes are continually updated to meet the varying aspirations and ambitions of participant companies as well as those of the individual delegates who join them.

To remain competitive, all operational activities must reach world-class standards in terms of quality, quantity, timeliness and cost. However, by their very nature, these activities are visible and are liable to competitor imitation.

The accepted competitive future of companies is in developing and exploiting through knowledge management the intellectual capital of the organisation. This capability is both difficult to capture and copy, but it is the future competitive differential.

Understanding these concepts and how to use them to commercial advantage underpins the WMG MSc Programmes. The programmes provide a hard focus on developing and deploying IC in an Industrial Value Chain, through the core value adding activities of:

• New Product and Process Development
  
• Operational Excellence
  
• Core and Emerging Technologies