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APICS Certified Manager Program

  APICS SCVC

Presents

THE PHILOSOPHY AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF

BUSINESS COMBAT
TRAINING

Come see how Master Black Belt Certification in Business Combat Management can drive your career and your business to new levels of success.


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Pure, Primal, Profitable

Location: APICS Santa Clara Office


(There are 5 modules total)
Each module consists of 30 hours.


Module 1 - Yellow

 


Module 2 - Green

 


Module 3 - Brown

 


Module 4 - Black

 


Module 5 - Master Black

                 

Our Price:

Each Training Module:

Members: $550.00
Non-Members: $600.00

please contact us for info on schedule

 

More Information about Business Combat Training

Business Combat Training prepares today's business manager by developing the financial planning, business development and operational skills needed to achieve success in today's hostile business environment.

Business Combat was developed and successfully tested over 30 years of hardcore engineering, manufacturing and management experience in Silicon Valley. The system was developed by creating an "intersection" consisting of the following cultural and functional elements:

 

1) The Principles & Philosophies of Martial Arts

2) The Creativity & Innovation of Silicon Valley Entrepreneurism

3) The Management & Execution of an Executive MBA

 

Business Combat focuses on developing the people and business processes required to launch and manage high growth/high profit companies. The following attributes and skills are key components of our training curriculum:

 

1) LEADERSHIP - The Leadership & Philosophy of a Warrior

2) INNOVATION - The Lean Thinking & Creativity of an Entrepreneur

3) PURPOSE - The Efficiency & Execution Skills of an Executive

4) SUCCESS - The Shareholder Advocacy Skills of a Champion

 

Come see how Black Belt Certification in Business Combat Management can drive your career and your business to new levels of success.

INSTRUCTOR PROFILE

Robert de Neve is the founder and chief instructor of the Business Combat Training and Management System. He has over 30 years of technical, entrepreneurial, and executive management experience in Silicon Valley. He has founded 4 successful start-ups and is a 5 Time Honoree of INC. Magazine's 500 Fastest Growing Company List. He is also founder of the Business Warrior Foundation, a non-profit organization using Business Combat Training as a vehicle to help disabled veterans of the War on Terror successfully integrate back into society.

Robert has had a life long interest in martial arts and philosophy. He is a Black Belt in the Hawaiian martial art of Kajukenbo and is a Certified Defensive Tactics Instructor in Reality-Based Martial Arts under Jim Wagner. Robert also cross-trains in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) under 5 Time UFC World Champion Frank Shamrock.

Robert is a graduate and former instructor of the Project & Program Management certificate program at UC Santa Cruz's School of Business Management. He is a graduate of the Contemporary Optics & Lens Design certificate program at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics and studied Electronic Engineering Technology and Laser Technology at Cogswell Polytechnic College and San Jose City College.