The search for knowledge, better working methods, and profitability in order to survive in this competitive world is what all successful businesses are striving for. To achieve this, organisations have invested heavily training and developing their operational and managerial staff.

In the past, this has been done mainly by short-term courses that would last from a single day to a month or more. The effectiveness of such programmes is in many cases short-lived. Organisations realised the need of continuous improvement especially in their strategic and tactical management thinking. Here is where organisations started to focus on tertiary education for their middle and senior management cadres.