Innovation for Growth
Innovation for Growth explores a framework for making strategic planning more robust amidst an increasingly changing and volatile business environment. As you progress through the course, you will gain insight into the various degrees of leadership that allow innovation to be harnessed and nurtured in organizations. By understanding the challenges that businesses face today, identifying the kind of organizations that are currently providing access to the most innovative landscapes, and recognizing the new kind of intelligences that are required to succeed, this course will challenge your own understanding of the role innovation plays in a company’s growth strategy.
Why this program?
Use scenario planningIdentify the critical uncertainties that face modern-day businesses and how to respond to them.
Develop disruptive frameworksIdentify what characterizes innovation-driven organizations and develop a framework for their creation.
Create Action PlansAnalyze and create an action plan for a real-world enterprise for its transformation into an innovation-driven enterprise (IDE).
Understanding Social IntelligenceIdentify the characteristics of social intelligence and understand why it is a necessary component for leadership in innovation.
Make Critical AssessmentsMake a critical assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of leaders in a given organization.
Action Design ThinkingAssess how Design Thinking forms an integral part of leadership.
Academic Director
Mark Esposito
Adjunct Professor of Strategy at IE University
Professor at Hult International Business School
Adjunct Professor of Strategy at IE University
Professor at Hult International Business School
Leading Megatrends
“We cannot plan for a chosen future, we can only respond to what happens. Megatrends are pathways to help you see further into uncertainty.”
Mark is a technology futurist and AI pioneer, and currently a strategic advisor to the UAE Government Office of AI on digital strategy. Canadian by birth and now living in France and Spain, he is co-founder of Nexus FrontierTech. He is also co-leader of the Microeconomics of Competitiveness program at the Institute of Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, with specialist interests in corporate sustainability, economic complexity, and the circular economy. His books include Understanding How the Future Unfolds and The AI Republic.
YOU WILL ALSO LEARN FROM GUEST SPEAKERS COMING FROM:
The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition
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The Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition brings together Member States, companies, social partners, non-profit organisations and education providers, who take action to tackle the lack of digital skills in Europe. IE University has pledged to carry out actions to reduce the digital skills gap in Europe by developing digital skills to enable all citizens to be active in our digital society and by transforming teaching and learning of digital skills in a lifelong learning perspective.
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Leadership And Strategy In The Age Of Disruption
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SPECIAL CONDITIONS
Alumni
As an IE alumni you are part of our community, and we want to support your passion for Lifelong Learning. Therefore, all IE alumni receive 25%* off tuition fees for all Executive Education programs.
*Alumni from Intensive Programs (less than a week duration), Summer Schools or High Impact Online Programs will receive 15% off.
Neither scholarship is compatible with other deductions.
Corporate
At IE, we are committed to encouraging companies to enroll teams of their employees. We believe this allows them to explore new perspectives together and speak a shared language of change. Companies that sign a Corporate Agreement are eligible for a 15% off the tuition fee for Executive Education programs for group of employees. Additional services and support may also be available for a Corporate Partner Agreement.
Neither scholarship is compatible with other deductions.