Beyond the Classroom: How Cogdel Education Empowers Large State-Owned Enterprises

What can lecturers from a top international education group bring to a large-scale industrial giant? Recently, a special cross-border empowerment initiative delivered an impressive answer.

Experts from KaiBo Education, the premium financial education brand under Cogdel Education Group, were invited to the headquarters of a large state-controlled national supply chain enterprise. Facing over 70 core backbones from key departments including finance, human resources, marketing and general management, they completed an in-depth upgrade of the enterprise's "management neural network".

Lead Trainer

Echo Zhao

- Master of Business Administration, University of Birmingham, UK

- Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA)

- 13 years of experience in Fortune Global 500 enterprises, serving successively as Financial Director of Branch Companies, Financial Director of Category Department, Senior Financial Manager of Sales Channels and Senior Financial Manager of Supply Chain. She has accumulated rich practical experience in financial analysis, budget management and internal control.

- 8 years of full-time ACCA teaching experience in universities, having taught at Shandong University, Northeastern University, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Wuhan Institute of Technology, etc. Courses include Strategic Business Leader, Advanced Performance Management, Advanced Audit and Assurance, etc.

PART 01 ：Addressing Chronic Pain Points in Corporate Budget Management

Currently, comprehensive budget management has become a core tool for refined corporate operations, yet its effectiveness is often compromised in practice due to common pain points such as the disconnection between strategy and execution, difficulties in inter-departmental collaboration, formalistic budgeting, and ineffective linkage with performance assessment.

This training directly tackled these prevalent challenges. With profound academic expertise and an in-depth understanding of international management accounting concepts, Ms. Echo Zhao broke away from conventional financial perspectives and started from the root – "the cornerstone of budgeting: strategic planning and business planning". She clearly pointed out that budgets lacking clear strategic decoding and business consensus are doomed to ineffectiveness from the very beginning.

In the core sessions covering budget formulation processes, methods and key challenges, the course fully integrated the systematic and framework-oriented thinking advantages of university teaching with practical corporate cases. Ms. Echo Zhao not only taught tools, but also focused on guiding participants to understand the management logic and behavioral drivers behind the numbers, helping backbones from various business departments learn how to translate market targets and project plans into actionable and monitorable financial language.

For the most frustrating pain point of budget analysis and problem diagnosis among managers, the course introduced dynamic simulation and scenario analysis teaching methods. It guided participants to go beyond static data variances, identify underlying issues in business processes, efficiency and even organizational collaboration, and transform budget analysis from a post-hoc explanatory tool into a management instrument for pre-event early warning and in-process correction.

PART 02 ：Empowering Organizational and Talent Development

After the training, the enterprise highly recognized its outcomes. The relevant person in charge specifically commented: "The lecturer brought not only methods, but also a systematic upgrade of financial thinking. It helped non-financial department managers truly understand the connection between budgeting and their own businesses, and enabled the finance department to see how to shift from 'controllers' to 'value partners'. Such training, rooted in a rigorous academic system and closely integrated with practice, is exactly what we need most right now."

Participants generally noted that the course featured clear logic and a strong framework, with "both theoretical height and direct relevance to work". It provided direct enlightenment for breaking down inter-departmental barriers and driving the effective implementation of budget management.

PART 03：Provider of Industrial Intelligence Solutions

This highly acclaimed training is far more than a successful commercial cooperation – it serves as a vivid illustration of Cogdel Education Group's strategy of "moving from the classroom to the industry".

Over the long term, various business sectors under Cogdel Education Group have accumulated profound international education resources, top-tier faculty and rigorous academic research capabilities. We continuously explore customer needs by integrating an international perspective with local realities, and tailor high-quality training programs by aligning future industry trends with corporate actualities, providing systematic and one-stop learning solutions.

Empowering industries and shaping the future – Cogdel Education Group is systematically transforming its core educational capabilities and international, forward-looking knowledge systems into "industrial intelligence solutions". We look forward to partnering with more industrial counterparts, injecting the power of education into the fabric of corporate management, jointly addressing challenges in the complex economic environment, driving business value growth, supporting the high-quality development of China's economy, and fulfilling the deeper industrial and social responsibilities of an education group.

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