EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
Engage with Imperial faculty live online
28 May 2021
7 weeks
5-7 hours per week
Special pricing up to 20% discount is available if you enrol with your colleagues. Please send an email to group-enrollments@emeritus.org for more information.
Innovation: A Design Thinking Approach is an immersive, live virtual learning experience which will contribute to a mindset change, inspire you to innovate in all functions and give you the practical tools to develop your ideas into a viable business proposition. The main objective of the programme is to understand how to become entrepreneurial within your own organisation and to inspire your teams and colleagues to innovate together.
Through this immersive and interactive programme you will:
SOURCE: PA CONSULTING INNOVATION MATTERS REPORT, 2019
At Imperial College London, our world-leading experts have combined scientific rigour with practical experience and the latest research to develop immersive virtual programmes – delivered in real time – in several areas of commerce, leadership and innovation so you can define the very future of business. Let us meet you where you are – and take you where you want to be.
Managers from anywhere in the world, in any industry, who aspire to innovate within their organisation and enable teams to innovate. Technical backgrounds are expected but not essential.
This seven-week virtual programme features 90-minute live faculty lectures with a Q&A at the end of each session. The sessions include engaging “try-it” and crowdsourcing features that help create an interactive, personalised and supportive learning experience.
Learn about the programme agenda and hear the programme director set the stage on different types of innovation, the challenges and uncertainty they present for incumbent firms in terms of their innovation strategy and competitive advantage, and how firms can overcome these challenges.
Design Thinking is a human centred approach for solving complex problems and identifying opportunities to innovate. Learn how to apply it to solve your challenges and see how this approach can help you innovate even in difficult environments. In this core part of the programme you will look at four key phases that will help you frame and understand how design thinking can drive innovation in your organisation.
In this session, Anu Wadhwa explains how to respond to uncertainty in an optimal way. Hear how to use uncertainty to your advantage through adopting an experimentation mindset and learn how creating an ambidexterous organisation will help you innovate.
Bart will discuss how corporate entrepreneurship is organised and help you understand how Unicorns are born in this context. You will also explore how to turn risk and uncertainty in your own context into an advantage that can help mobilise resources.
Successful innovation requires capturing the attention and generating the enthusiasm of important stakeholders. Learn how to craft an ‘Innovation Narrative’ and understand how to communicate and operationalise through teams. Organisational innovation depends on well-functioning teams. Learn about common team dysfunctions and how to avoid them, as well as the importance of first meetings and the value of a team charter. Then apply your learning to real life scenarios using your programme peers as coaches.
Learn about the programme agenda and hear the programme director set the stage on different types of innovation, the challenges and uncertainty they present for incumbent firms in terms of their innovation strategy and competitive advantage, and how firms can overcome these challenges.
Bart will discuss how corporate entrepreneurship is organised and help you understand how Unicorns are born in this context. You will also explore how to turn risk and uncertainty in your own context into an advantage that can help mobilise resources.
Design Thinking is a human centred approach for solving complex problems and identifying opportunities to innovate. Learn how to apply it to solve your challenges and see how this approach can help you innovate even in difficult environments. In this core part of the programme you will look at four key phases that will help you frame and understand how design thinking can drive innovation in your organisation.
Successful innovation requires capturing the attention and generating the enthusiasm of important stakeholders. Learn how to craft an ‘Innovation Narrative’ and understand how to communicate and operationalise through teams. Organisational innovation depends on well-functioning teams. Learn about common team dysfunctions and how to avoid them, as well as the importance of first meetings and the value of a team charter. Then apply your learning to real life scenarios using your programme peers as coaches.
In this session, Anu Wadhwa explains how to respond to uncertainty in an optimal way. Hear how to use uncertainty to your advantage through adopting an experimentation mindset and learn how creating an ambidexterous organisation will help you innovate.
Note: Sessions are held on Tuesdays and Fridays, 9:00 a.m. UK time. For full session schedule, please download the brochure.
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Anu Wadhwa
Ileana Stigliani
Sankalp Chaturvedi
Bart Clarysse
Marc Gruber
Anne ter Wal
Richard Watson
Anu Wadhwa
Programme Director
Anu Wadhwa is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and the Programme Director of the Imperial Idea to Innovation Programme at Imperial College Business School. Anu’s research helps established organisations examine patterns and processes of entrepreneurship, the impact of corporate entrepreneurship on organisational innovation, how entrepreneurial actors make decisions under extreme uncertainty and how pre-entry experience and knowledge impact post-entry innovation choices and outcomes.
Ileana Stigliani
Imperial College Business School
Ileana Stigliani is Associate Professor of Design and Innovation at Imperial College Business School. She received her PhD in Management from Bocconi University, Milan. Her research focuses on the cognitive aspects of innovation. In particular, she studies how material artefacts and practices influence cognitive processes – such as sensemaking and sensegiving, categorisation, and perceptions of organisational and professional identities – within organisations.
Sankalp Chaturvedi
Imperial College Business School
Sankalp researches organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB), leadership, and interpersonal trust. He also examines the nature-nurture debate with regard to organisational behaviour. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organisational Behaviour & Human Decision Processes, Strategic Management Journal, Leadership Quarterly and the Journal of Management.
Bart Clarysse
Imperial College Business School
Bart is a founder of several tech start-up businesses involving digital cinema, mobile internet and venture incubation. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the annual Babson Kauffman Entrepreneurship Conference and Proceedings. He is also a member of both the Board of Advisors at the Royal College of Art accelerator ‘InnovationRCA’ and digital research centre ‘iMinds’.
Marc Gruber
Imperial College Business School
At EPFL, Marc holds the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization (ENTC). Marc also acts as Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), the highest ranked empirical research journal in the management domain, and serves as a member of the research council at the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), Division 1.
Anne ter Wal
Imperial College Business School
Anne ter Wal is an Associate Professor of Technology and Innovation Management in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship. His research, often in collaboration with leading multinational companies as well as start-ups, focuses on the role of networks in innovation and entrepreneurship. Specifically, Anne studies how individuals access new knowledge and ideas through networks within and between organisations and the challenges they face when seeking to apply these ideas to the creation of novel products and services. He leads a large-scale EU-funded research project titled “Networking for Innovation”, studying how networking enables entrepreneurs and innovators to build valuable networks that help them achieve business and innovation success. He also has an interest in the management of creativity.
Richard Watson
Imperial College Business School
Futurist to the Technology Foresight Practice at Imperial College, Richard is an acclaimed author, innovation blogger and the founder of nowandnext.com a website that documents global trends, Richard is an expert on all aspects of the future. Richard Watson strives to help organisations prepare for current and future trends and scenarios affecting various industries. Pulling together information from multiple sources, he focuses on strategic foresight and scenario planning. Richard is the author of Future Files, which has been published in 15 languages, and the publisher of What’s Next, a website that documents global trends and speculates about future risks and opportunities.
Upon completion of the programme, participants will be awarded a verified Digital Certificate by Imperial College Business School Executive Education.
Note: As a live executive education programme, participant attendance and contribution is key to the learning experience and value of the programme. As such, participants are required to attend (or watch recordings of) 80% of the live sessions to receive their Certificate.
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