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Innovation and Transformation in the Age of AI
AI’s value gap: closing the distance between pilots and performance
Only 5% of companies report extracting significant value from their AI initiatives. The gap is not in the technology. It is in the pipeline, the governance, and the leadership capabilities needed to make it real.
AI technology alone does not confer a durable competitive advantage. Your competitors will have access to the same models, tools, and vendors. The advantage comes from how well your organization chooses, governs, deploys, and continuously improves AI across the enterprise. Doing this effectively requires leadership alignment, operating discipline, a portfolio mindset, and the human systems that make adoption stick.
Every custom business learning solution is built around three components, configured to your organization’s specific context, maturity, and strategic priorities.
These components draw on Shadoka’s proprietary OPEN and CARE methodologies published in Harvard Business Review, combined with IMD’s world-leading expertise in designing custom executive education for large, complex organizations.
Three stages. Scoped to your organization.
This is not a prepackaged solution. Every engagement is designed around your organization’s specific context. Scope, depth, and duration are determined collaboratively.
A focused diagnostic of your organization’s AI maturity, leadership alignment, capability gaps, and risk posture. The Assessment stage culminates in an Art of Possibilities session that equips leadership to systematically identify and prioritize AI opportunities. This stage creates alignment, establishes a baseline, and shapes what comes next.
Custom programs designed and delivered by IMD faculty and Shadoka practitioners that build a common language across your leadership team for AI strategy, innovation, risk, and human-AI collaboration. Programs are tailored to your business context and designed to deliver measurable, scalable outcomes.
The methods, playbooks, advisory support, and digital platform your teams need to build and manage portfolios of AI initiatives from ideation through scaled deployment. The goal is to equip your organization to run this system independently, rather than creating the kind of expensive dependency that consulting often encourages.
Digital platform
Each engagement includes a purpose-built digital application that turns frameworks into live management systems. The app serves as both the hands-on lab where teams do the work and the management layer that keeps programs on track.
Hands-on labs
Transformation management
Enterprise-grade deployment. For organizations requiring a dedicated transformation management platform, an optional upgrade to a fully customized enterprise deployment is available — using the same architecture previously deployed at Fortune 100 companies and government agencies.
IMD brings academic rigor, a genuinely global perspective, and world-leading experience designing custom leadership programs for large, complex organizations. Shadoka brings decades of hands-on enterprise transformation experience, along with proprietary frameworks and technical implementation expertise. Together, IMD and Shadoka translate research-backed insights directly into practice.
Most business learning solutions deliver insight but leave the translation into action entirely to you. Most consulting engagements create dependency, performing transformation work on your behalf without building any lasting internal capability.
We combine the strengths of both approaches without their limitations. We provide the diagnostic clarity, frameworks, processes, and methods that allow your leadership team to take genuine ownership of AI transformation and build a compounding advantage over time.
Ranked #3 worldwide for custom executive programs (Financial Times, 2026). Headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. IMD trains 20,000+ executives from 120+ countries annually and has focused exclusively on executive education for over seven decades.
Shadoka’s team has delivered enterprise-wide transformation at PepsiCo, CACI, JPMorgan Chase, GE, American Express, MasterCard, Northrop Grumman, IBM, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Department of Homeland Security. Their frameworks for AI transformation have been published in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Fast Company, and Forbes.
Who this is for
CEOs, boards, AI governance councils, and business unit presidents – particularly in regulated industries such as banking, insurance, pharmaceuticals, energy, and defence.