New technologies for your business transformation

Pre-program

• You identify a business transformation challenge/ opportunity to work on during the program with support from IMD.
• You get familiar with the latest digital technologies through a designated platform.

Program

You will explore business opportunities in 3 areas:

Design new products, services and solutions

Are you dealing with stagnating sales or even serious disruptions in your market? Perhaps you’ve succeeded in partially streamlining your cost structure. In this session, you will be challenged to design a new customer offering (product, service or solution) that can bring new sources of growth for your business and imagine ways to test your assumptions in the market.

Deliver new user experiences

Technology provides us with amazing new capabilities, but ultimately, the implementation of a new technology depends upon an audience wanting to buy it, use it and be wowed. In this session, you’ll learn about users to better understand their “pain points”, the benefits they’re seeking and the value they’re willing to allocate. 

Develop operational efficiencies

Are you under relentless pressure to make operations more efficient, reduce costs or improve internal services? Technology can improve an organization’s competitiveness by offering people powerful tools to access the right information at the right time, in turn, to facilitate their decision-making. 

Explore exponentially improving technologies

Get the latest from EPFL and other technology experts on:

IoT - watch how to create opportunities with IoT

In this session, you’ll cover the three main themes that enable the IoT to be deployed in any business.

Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence - watch how to create opportunities with A.I

In this session, fast-forward to the near future, discuss the next wave of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and anticipate their impact on data-enabled corporations.

Robotics - watch how to harness the power of robots

During this session, you will take a journey into the workplace of tomorrow and discover intelligent applications for robots.

Develop your technology-enabled business case

Create and refine your pretototype through experiential learning:

• Get first-hand exposure to new technologies with a visit to EPFL labs
• Develop a pretototype with feedback from business, innovation and technology experts. Come as a team to develop a pretotoype for your specific business opportunity.

By the end of the program, you will be ready to test your technology-enabled business case within your organization.

Post-program

Continue technology prototyping for your business transformation initiative and get feedback.

Agenda