Don’t be left behind. Rethink your innovation strategy.
Driving Strategic Innovation
Don’t be left behind. Rethink your innovation strategy.
Innovation has become the defining capability of leaders who want to shape the future. Yet, breakthrough innovation demands more than new tools or processes; it requires a deep understanding of how value is created, how emerging technologies enable differentiation, and how the right organizational culture can support bold, strategic choices.
No matter what role you play in the innovation process, Driving Strategic Innovation empowers you to rethink innovation and technology strategy, offering practical tools to innovate business models, redesign value chains, and implement solutions that deliver measurable impact. It addresses technical trends, organizational and talent issues, corporate strategy, and the likely impacts of AI on all of these.
Through highly-interactive faculty-led sessions, hands-on exercises, and real-world reflections, you’ll explore how ideas form, evolve, and scale within high-performing organizations. Throughout the week, you’ll participate in applied sessions to generate and develop ideas, learn from entrepreneurial practices, and tackle team-based challenges that bring culture, leadership, and strategic thinking to life, helping innovation take hold across your organization.
A fresh lens on the strategic role of AI is woven throughout the experience, including the use of AI-supported tools, helping you explore how leaders can use analytics, data-driven insights, agentic AI, and emerging competitive dynamics to build distinctive capabilities.
By the end of your journey, you’ll leave with a richer understanding of innovation leadership, and the ability to influence corporate culture, orchestrate partnerships across the value chain, and activate innovation as a core strategic capability.
A hallmark of the program is the alliance between IMD and MIT Sloan, a partnership that merges world leading research with practical, executive level insight. Participants benefit from decades of faculty expertise as well as the diverse perspectives of peers from around the world.
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Driving Strategic Innovation explained by program directors Bill Fischer (IMD) and Charles Fine (MIT Sloan).
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Global Head of Strategy and Innovation
Havas Media Network
Spain
This is not just another top management course, it’s a life-changing experience. I didn’t just want to learn about lateral or wishful thinking, I wanted structure – tools and models that would help me guide innovation confidently and strategically.
CEO
Grupo Desarrollo Infrastructura
Mexico
This program offered a great chance to connect and engage in rich discussions with executives facing similar challenges. It opened blind spots I had in executing and strategizing, and gave me a clear plan to start innovating in our sector.
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Vice President, Products and Solutions Engineering, Sita, UK
Successful innovation depends on the quality of your conversations. This management training program gives you stimulating topics, inspiring teachers, and a fantastic group of participants raising the level of conversation.
Marketing Manager, Procter & Gamble, Switzerland
Driving Strategic Innovation program is great. The faculty helped me build a decisive mindset, a daring vision and gave me the tools to turn innovation into success.
Length: 6 days
