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Your online learning journey

Designed to ensure you lead your strategic initiatives to successful implementation.

Your online learning journey

Designed to ensure you lead your strategic initiatives to successful implementation.

Program overview

Define your personal learning objectives, connect with your peers, and attend a live kick-off webinar with your learning manager.
Discover the Seven Insights of Smarter Execution by applying them to the Tetra Pak case study.
Start focusing by formulating your execution challenge and completing your initiative charter.
Understand the importance of alignment of a strategic initiative with overall strategy and strategic priorities.
Download your companion workbook and capture one to three points that you have learned after each unit.
Recall the Seven Insights through adaptive learning.

Understand team members’ roles and responsibilities.
Reflect on best practices in sponsorship.
Understand team dynamics and the pitfalls of team selection and management.
Learn to evaluate team members’ performance.
Study the DIGA mini-case to examine further the role of three leaders driving strategic initiatives.

Engage with your dedicated coach during a 45-minute call to introduce yourselves, discuss your learning objectives, and reflect on your own strategic initiative.

Scope your strategic initiative and understand where to start.
Formulate a compelling and inspirational vision.
Get support in your assignment through IMD GenAI.
Build the roadmap that sequences the execution steps to achieve your vision.
Study the Best Buy case to understand how they manage to drive results within the company.

Create a high-level execution plan for your Initiative.

Assess the magnitude of change and potential risks of your initiative

Think about the type of piloting and select it carefully.
Learn to monitor the progress of your initiative overtime through to completion.
Test your understanding of these two smarter execution insights.
Attend a live webinar with faculty.

Map your initiative’s stakeholders.
Learn to overcome resistance to change and gain support.
Reflect on how to communicate your initiative to different audiences.
Design a high-impact event.
Participate in an interactive simulation with your team.

Debrief the simulation during a live webinar with the program’s learning manager.
Understand which dimensions contribute to high performance in teams.
Assess your team on the six dimensions that contribute to high performance in teams.
Develop your play to win mindset and how to engage with your team.

Assess initiative overload.
Manage a portfolio of initiatives with agility.
Define the governance and processes needed for successful strategy execution.
Apply your learning to a circular economy strategic initiative portfolio through a case study.
Reflect on how to ensure your initiative remains on track.
Engage in your second call with your dedicated coach to discuss your progress and reflect further.

Understand the link between strategy and execution through the six dimensions of an operating model.

Learn how to facilitate the execution by aligning structure, processes, people, incentives and behaviors.
Reflect on the right environment for your strategy execution.
Get a personalized refresher of the Seven Insights through adaptive learning.

One-on-one coaching

Throughout your online learning, you’ll be accompanied by an experienced IMD executive coach who will challenge you, encourage you, and provide valuable feedback on your weekly assignments. Together, you’ll dive deeper into the program content and make it meaningful to your own professional context. Your interactions will take place via video, in writing, and over the phone.

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Achieve your goals

Your expert coach helps you:

Define

Define your learning objectives and stay on track.

Review

Review your progress on a weekly basis.

Overcome

Overcome your challenges.

Apply

Apply what you learn to your own context.

Learn smarter with IMD’s AI-powered adaptive learning

What’s in it for you?

This program uses IMD’s AI-powered adaptive learning tool to help you focus on what truly matters—quickly identifying knowledge gaps and mastering essential skills.

Personalized to your needs

The tool tailors content based on your strengths and areas for improvement, just like a one-on-one tutor.

Optimized learning time

Achieve mastery in up to 50% less time compared to traditional e-learning.

Smart, real-time adaptation

Intelligent technology continuously fine-tunes your learning experience for maximum efficiency and retention.

Explore FAQs for online programs

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Get a personal recommendation

Schedule a call with a Program Advisor to discuss your professional development and see if this is the program for you.

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Earn an IMD Online Executive Certificate

Reinforce and consolidate your expertise in leadership, strategy, or digital acceleration through an immersive, fully online experience incorporating executive coaching.