New owners bring new ideas and boss of the Irish Management Institute believes its recent acquisition by the Business Post Group will help it stay at the top of Irish corporate learning tree
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‘We did a survey recently with C-suite [top-level executives] and 40pc said organisations needed very significant change for them to survive,’ says O’Sullivan. Photo by Steve Humphreys
Fluttering over the lush 12-acre Sandyford grounds and brutalist campus buildings of the Irish Management Institute (IMI) in south Dublin is a green flag, almost the colour of the masthead of its new owner, the Kilcullen Business Post Group.
But the flag, with Arabic script and a sword, is the Saudi one. It flies over an executive educational establishment that has long been synonymous with corporate Ireland. The flag is there not to greet the arrival to the campus of the staff of the Business Post Group – the IMI’s new owner – but to welcome a group of business people from the Gulf kingdom who are on-site for development and learning.
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