Corporate development means corporate development (or business development). This is achieved by creating and maintaining strategic partnerships, business growth and restructuring initiatives. It therefore includes all activities and ideas at a strategic level that can be used to optimize and thus develop a company. Business development, on the other hand, is concerned with business area development and thus the further development of individual business areas. This field of activity is hierarchically subordinate to Corporate Development. This is where the course of the business is set at management level.

The tasks of a business development team in the Corporate Development department are:

• Identify new market opportunities
• Exploiting market opportunities
• Establishing and maintaining strategic partnerships
• Acquisitions through takeovers or mergers
• Disposals and recesses for modeling the valuation capabilities or financial
• Develop innovative solutions for shareholders and hedge fund managers
• Target group-specific messages
• Improvement of customer service
• Achieve financial performance improvements
• Improve operational processes

In corporate development training, various structural types of business development are taught, including the centralized, hybrid (middle ground) and decentralized model (without a fixed team, assembled as required). The centralized model is used most frequently and ensures consistent monitoring of competitive potential and innovative strength. With these models, long-term profitability can be achieved despite constantly growing and changing global markets.

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