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Access the very latest in management thinking with these intensive 1.5-day workshops led by IMD Faculty. Gain practical insights from real-world experience and cutting-edge research, network with other global executives and leave with fresh ideas you can implement in the business straight away.

Recent event themes include:

Digital business transformation: creating opportunities, defending against digital disruption
Global leaders in emerging markets: India’s economic agenda
The competitiveness challenge and the world economy
Private equity 4.0: reinventing value creation
Big data strategy for your company value chain
Global leaders and global teams
Taking charge in new leadership roles
Below you will find the schedule of our forthcoming events.

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Upcoming Discovery Events

January 2018

CHANGING EMPLOYEE BEHAVIOR

As a manager you have to be able to support the professional development of your direct reports, in order to foster organizational change and personal transformations. During this event, Prof. Shlomo Ben-Hur and Nik Kinley will guide you through their research on the subject, and give you a wealth of practical applications for your managerial career.

Who: Executives who are responsible for managing the performance and contributing to the development of their direct reports.

February 2018

DISSONANT LEADERSHIP

This event is an opportunity to explore the deep personal challenges of leading in today’s dynamic business context. It is a chance to discover and make sense of the capacity to read and respond to complex situations. Every person who attends this event will experience some discomfort or dissonance in the pursuit of learning, so expect a challenging, insightful and thoughtful experience.

Who: Executives, HR and L&D professionals who are hoping to challenge assumptions, explore new leadership horizons and reflect on their own experiences.

March 2018

UNDERSTANDING BIG DATA AND ANALYTICS

Big Data and Analytics (BDA) have become buzzwords in recent years, and both have the potential to disrupt business processes and decision-making across all industries. But still, there are vast differences in adoption and implementation across businesses. During this event, managers will have a chance to see how BDA is transforming businesses and how strategic implementation can drive managerial decision-making.

Who: Any executive impacted by digital transformation or dealing with issues related to BDA.

April 2018

BUILDING AN INTRAPRENEURIAL ORGANIZATION

The world around us is rapidly changing. Disruptive technologies and innovative business models are transforming entire industries and threaten to replace those firms that are not agile enough to react to these changes. This event will show you how you can respond to the changes, and foster an environment where innovative thrives through intrapreneurial ventures.

Who: Executives with a willingness to transform their organization

May 2018

GETTING DIGITAL BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION RIGHT...HOW TO OVERCOME THE EXECUTION CHALLENGE

Emerging digital technologies are transforming most companies and business models. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, augmented reality, mobile applications, the sharing economy and platform economics are shifting the competitive dynamics across many industries. So how can traditional organizations keep up with these threats, and turn them into opportunities? This event will help traditional companies to address the digital execution challenge and help them forge ahead in uncertain times.

Who: Any manager or executive who is struggling with how to respond to digital disruption in their industry or sector

September 2018

GLOBALIZING IN THE FACE OF DISRUPTION

The traditional approach to internationalization and managing foreign operations has come under pressure as a result of changes in technology (technological disruption), changes in industry dynamics (industrial disruption), and changes in the macro-environment (political disruption). We will explore what these disruptions mean for business models when it comes to managing foreign operations.

Who: Business Development Managers, Strategy Managers, Country Managers, HQ managers in charge of overseeing foreign subsidiaries.

September 2018

DIGITAL DISRUPTION IN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY

The Financial Services industry represents a digital paradox. It is a prime target for digital disruption. But many people predicted a sharp decline for traditional banks, investment firms, and insurance companies, which, for the most part, has not occurred. This event will explore the dynamics of digital disruption in financial services, and response options for industry incumbents.

This Discovery Event will be supported by research from IMD’s World Competiveness Center and IMD’s Global Center for Digital Business Transformation.

October 2018

THE DIGITAL TSUNAMI: HOW IT IMPACTS YOUR BUSINESS

All sectors of activity are massively impacted by the digital revolution, which includes 5G, the internet of things, robotics, big data & analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain. These technologies have the potential of profoundly affecting all aspects of economic activity and present unprecedented security concerns. The event will explore the opportunities and threats of this digital revolution as well as security and privacy issues.

Who: All managers and executives

October 2018

THE PERSON EFFECT: THE SECRET INGREDIENT IN LEADERSHIP

During this dynamic and highly interactive event, Professor Kohlrieser will illustrate how business leaders and managers can develop their inner state to engage in productive dialogue, to create trust, and to drive change with a positive mind-set for themselves, others, and their organizations. Using some of the latest developments from neuroscience, participants will be engaged in a personal journey, exploring how their unique Person Effect is a secret ingredient in leadership, driving change, and inspiring their people.

Who: Senior and mid-level managers

November 2018

INNOVATION RULES!

There is a new world of innovation, and you should never be surprised by surprise. Going into the unknown requires fundamentally new managerial and leadership approaches, and new Business Models and Organizational Platforms are the models of the future for us all. This event will teach you to reengineer your conversations to move ideas forward, faster.

Who: Any manager who feels as if the world is moving faster and less predictably than in the past, and who is worried about how to respond in both an organizational and personal professional role.

November 2018

MOVING UP TO BUSINESS LEADERSHIP

One of the most important challenges of management development concerns the transition from leading a particular function or single specialty, to leading a business. During this event, Professors Michael Watkins, world renowned expert on leadership transitions and author of The First 90 Days, and Phil Rosenzweig, professor of strategy and author of The Halo Effect, will offer insights for individual managers facing new challenges, as well as address the ways that organizations can create a context for successful transitions.

Who: Mid-career managers, facing their own challenge of business leadership; Senior executives, concerned with building a strong executive team; Human resources executives, tasked with effective succession

Past Discovery Events

November 2017

THE NEW SILK ROAD – TRANSFORMING VISION INTO REALITY: BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & IMPLICATIONS

Discover how the New Silk Road project, the most ambitious and exciting business and economic project of the 21st century, will impact your business.

Who: Aspiring business leaders of the 21st Century!

October 2017

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF NEGOTIATION

Discover how to achieve win-win outcomes and manage the tension between creating value versus claiming value in negotiations.

Who: Leaders who represent their organization to stakeholders within the organization or to the external world

October 2017

POWER, STATUS, STRESS, AND YOUR LEADERSHIP

Discover how power and status might be negatively affecting your health and leadership behavior, and what you can do to retain only the positive and buffer yourself from the potentially insidious effects

Who: Managers at all levels of their career who feel like their hierarchical position at work might be causing them some negative physical, psychological, or behavioral effects

September 2017

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN HEALTHCARE

Discover how the digital revolution is changing the healthcare sector. Explore how innovative start-ups are capitalising on wearable devices and custom tech, whilst the existing players continue to fight for their niche within ever changing e-health ecosystem. With the dual-purpose of improving health at the same time as reducing costs, there is much to be gained from these successes and developments.

Who: Leaders from a diverse range of industries who is interested the healthcare and technology sectors, and who would like to better understand how digital disruption is transforming them

September 2017

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN FINANCIAL SERVICES

If you’re from the financial services industry, learn how to make your organization more agile and innovative in response to digital opportunities and threats.

Who: Anyone working within the financial services industry interested in better understanding how digital disruption is affecting the sector, and curious to learn about how to respond

May 2017

LEADING THROUGH EMOTION: ART AS A TOOLBOX FOR LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS

Use art to improve the way you observe and interpret emotional states in your business environment and how to strengthen personal and professional relationships in a meaningful and authentic way.

Who: Middle managers responsible for a team of direct reports

April 2017

YOUR STRATEGY NEEDS A STRATEGY

Discover how strategy development and execution is best done in complex and fast changing real world settings.

Who: Executives with strategic responsibilities, as well as Board members

March 2017

LEADING IN HIGH TURBULENT TIMES

Discover how to lead and drive change in high-turbulence environments, and what it takes to to create and run an ambidextrous organization.

Who: Corporate leaders (including chair persons, board members and C-suite) and top managers both from business and non-profit organizations

March 2017

DIGITAL BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION: LEADERSHIP IN AN AGE OF DIGITAL DISRUPTION

Become a better, more agile leader and discover the knowledge, skills, and behaviors required of leaders in companies facing digital disruption.

Who: Leaders within firms affected by digital disruption, from all industries and geographies

February 2017

FROM VENTURE CAPITAL TO VENTURE CLIENTS: HOW COMPANIES ARE REVOLUTIONIZING THE WAY THEY INTEGRATE START-UPS INTO THE INNOVATION PROCESS

Discover a new approach, the Venture Client approach to unlock new opportunities for leveraging the power of start-ups for corporate innovation.

Who: Leaders from a diverse range of industries who are interested in finding out more about how to integrate start-ups into corporate innovation

To download the full schedule with event descriptions please click here.

Testimonials

Discovery Events are like a one-day MBA. It’s a great opportunity to get out of your comfort zone and learn about subjects you don’t necessarily work with. It’s also a chance to meet and network with people from very different backgrounds.

Bruno Sales

Credit Risk and Internal Controls Manager, Vale International

Bruno Sales

Credit Risk and Internal Controls Manager, Vale International

Discovery Events are like a one-day MBA. It’s a great opportunity to get out of your comfort zone and learn about subjects you don’t necessarily work with. It’s also a chance to meet and network with people from very different backgrounds.

I picked up a lot of things that I want to try and apply in my job. Sometimes you go to events and it’s so B-to-C that you really shut off and don’t try to see how you can adapt it in your company. But here, even if the examples tend to be more B-to-C, it has been lifted to a level that is I think relevant for all.

Marièlle Butter-Timmermans

General Manager Marketing, Market Intelligence/Wärtsilä Corporation

Marièlle Butter-Timmermans

General Manager Marketing, Market Intelligence/Wärtsilä Corporation

I picked up a lot of things that I want to try and apply in my job. Sometimes you go to events and it’s so B-to-C that you really shut off and don’t try to see how you can adapt it in your company. But here, even if the examples tend to be more B-to-C, it has been lifted to a level that is I think relevant for all.

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