Your Driving Strategic Innovation learning journey
Move ideas forward strategically
Over six days on campus, you will engage in a wide range of situations, conversations, and exercises as you explore innovation holistically. You will ideate new solutions to your business problems, develop these ideas with rapid prototyping, and learn how to pitch your ideas in the context of the optimal business models. Here are some of the main themes you will explore.
- Understand the contexts in which innovation takes place so you can anticipate the managerial choices you face to sustain innovation activities.
- Discover how to increase the likelihood of stakeholders adopting an innovation project.
- Deepen your understanding of business model innovation.
- Examine the innovative business model possibilities that exist in every facet of an organization.
- Consider where your industry is on its innovation trajectory, and at what point it may become vulnerable to profound disruptive forces.
- Explore how key innovation needs to occur throughout the customer journey and well beyond the acquisition transaction (re-use and recycling of discarded objects).
- Zoom in on innovation ventures that have benefited communities and social activities.
- Consider how innovation can become a better tool of social well-being and advancement.
- Understand the importance of defining value-capture strategies to accompany innovation activities.
- Examine how the rise of ecosystems is leading to an additional concern of value distribution among partners.
Program schedule 2023
Sunday March 19 | Monday March 20 | Tuesday March 21 | Wednesday March 22 | Thursday March 23 | Friday March 24 |
08:30 - 09:30 Learning Synthesis | 08:30 - 09:30 Learning Synthesis | 08:30 - 09:30 Learning Synthesis | 08:30 - 09:30 Learning Synthesis | 08:00 - 09:30 Innovation & Teams | |
09:30 - 12:30 Introduction to the DSI Framework | 09:30 - 12:30 Business Model Innovation & Organizational Culture | 09:30 - 12:30 Lessons from Silicon Valley: Innovation & Leadership | 09:30 - 12:30 Creating and Capturing Value with Strategic Partners | 09:30 - 11:00 Organizational Transformation | |
Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | 11:00 - 12:00 Program Closing | |
15:00 - 17:00 Introduction: Observe, Admire and Adapt | 13:30 - 16:30 Innovation Dynamics | 13:30 - 16:30 Innovation for Sustainability | 13:30 - 17:30 Why Great Innovations Fail | 13:30 - 17:30 Social Innovation | 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch |
17:30 - 19:00 Entrepreneurial Dynamics: How to Nail it | 16:45 - 18:15 Entrepreneurial Dynamics: How to Scale it | 17:00 - 18:30 Entrepreneurial Dynamics: How to Sail it | 17:45 - 18:30 Eccentricity Ecosystems & Leadership | 17:45 - 18:30 Synthesis: Pulling it all together | |
Cocktail & Opening IMD | Swiss Fondue Dinner | Closing Dinner |