Your online learning journey

Designed to ensure innovations are implemented to maximum effect.

Program overview

Understand how innovation drives industry change through S-curves.
Learn to think like a disrupter via business model innovation.
Understand that the best innovations stem from homing in on the customer journey.
Map out your customers’ journey and use S-curves to predict the future of your industry.

Understand that for your organization to be sustainable, it must move into the future and address the unknown, which is different from the uncertain.
Acquire the tools required to jump S-curves and stay ahead of the pack.
Learn to leverage talent from others already living in the future.
Understand Roger’s 5 factors for rapid adoption of your ideas.

Discover practical ideas and tools to help you confront challenges and seize opportunities in an unknown future.
Dive into the core principles of design thinking.
Become familiar with the Business Model Canvas as a tool to think about your business.
Apply design thinking principles to identify innovation potential in your business.

Understand how high-performing teams and a supportive culture drive innovation.
Become familiar with the concept of conversation re-engineering to reach your full innovation potential.
Apply this concept to your own business context.

Reflect on how to adopt an explorer mindset to lead and nurture innovation.
Learn how to beat legacy thinking.
Recognize that to brace for the future, you need to develop new leadership competencies and become a role model within your organization.

One-on-one coaching

Throughout your online learning, an experienced IMD executive coach provides personalized support tailored to your goals and context. Your coach challenges your thinking, helps you navigate implementation barriers, and ensures you extract maximum value from the program. Interactions take place via video, in writing, and over the phone—flexible to fit your schedule.

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Your expert coach helps you:

Navigate your specific challenges

Address the real obstacles you’re facing in your organization.

Translate concepts into action

Move from theory to practical application in your work.

Maximize your impact

Stay focused on outcomes that matter to your role and goals.

Maintain momentum

Keep progressing even when priorities compete for your attention.

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Power your learning with IMD’s AI Advisor

Personalized AI support integrated into your learning experience — guiding you as you set objectives, complete assignments, journal insights, and apply concepts to your work.

Smart support, available 24/7

Real-time feedback, reflection prompts, and guidance— tailored to your role and work situation.

100% aligned with your program

Prompts tied directly to your curriculum and connected through all modules, helping you create an integrated outcome by the end.

Two adaptive support modes

Step-by-step for structured support, Adaptive for high-level guidance.

Real outcomes, real impact

Guidance to develop actionable plans grounded in your reality and ready to implement immediately.