On campus program
Driving Strategic Innovation

Don’t be left behind. Rethink your innovation strategy

On campus program

Driving Strategic Innovation

Don’t be left behind. Rethink your innovation strategy

Location

Lausanne or Boston

Length
6 days
Fee

CHF 11,500 / USD 12,700

Next program starts

4 May 2025

Change the way you think about innovation

Innovation is required in all areas of activity today. It needs to be driven by leaders who understand how it comes about, what makes economic or social impact possible, and how an organization’s culture might be developed to support such activities.

Driving Strategic Innovation changes the way that you as a business leader think about innovation and technology strategy. It gives you a toolbox for new solutions and business model innovation, and an approach to implementing them strategically.

You explore business model opportunities, value chain design, project execution, and talent management in an end-to-end roadmap for achieving breakthrough performance.

You leave the program knowing how to influence corporate culture, alter the way your organization responds to the challenge of innovation, and strengthen your relationships with partners along the value chain.

Driving Strategic Innovation is a powerful alliance between IMD and MIT Sloan that was launched in 2003. Participants benefit from the Program Directors’ decades of experience teaching innovation and from each other’s professional insights and ideas.

Manage innovation more effectively

Successfully manage the (often unclear) front end of the innovation process with new tools and a framework for how to think about innovation in your organization.

Identify opportunities

Understand how to navigate increasingly unpredictable value chains and identify risks and strategic opportunities.

Ideate new solutions

Foster innovative ideas, practice rapid prototyping, engage in business model innovation and benefit from feedback from faculty and other program participants.

Influence corporate culture

Examine how to achieve a more innovative organizational culture and increase the likelihood of your stakeholders adopting innovation projects.

Gain fresh perspectives

Interact with participants from different countries, functions, and industries, and learn from their different approaches, experiences, and ideas.

You and your class

You are a senior executive, team, or entrepreneur involved in developing innovation, technology, and value-chain strategies and implementing them in your business. Ideally, you play an influential role in innovative activities, being able to look up and down the value chain to identify promising strategic opportunities.

Your class is carefully selected to ensure a truly diverse group of global peers. Your class will become a trusted resource and network through your career. Read more about the admission criteria.

Recent participant profiles include:
Chief Technology Officer, Corporate VP Industrial Growth Markets, Global Head of Innovation Strategy, Managing Director, Head of Business Development, Innovation Manager, Cybersecurity R&D Manager, Marketing Innovation Associate Director, Chief Development Officer, Financial Markets Sales Director, Director of Marketing & Communications, Board Member.

2022-2023 class profile (average data)

20

Years of experience

79%

Senior & C-level

46

Average age

10

Nationalities

What our participants say
Pradipt Kapoor

Vice President, Products and Solutions Engineering, Sita, UK

Successful innovation depends on the quality of your conversations.  This management training program gives you stimulating topics, inspiring teachers, and a fantastic group of participants raising the level of conversation.

Beatrice Nurdin

Marketing Manager, Procter & Gamble, Switzerland

Driving Strategic Innovation program is great. Faculty helped me build a decisive mindset, a daring vision and gave me the tools to turn innovation into success.

Tomás Restrepo Pérez

Vice President, New Business Development, Inversiones Argos SA, Colombia

You come into the program with ideas; you leave it with a clear vision and strategy of how to make innovation a vector of growth back in your company.

Anette Rosengren

Vice President Head of Communication, Sustainability and R&D, Lantmannen Axa AB, Sweden

I brought back a great toolbox for driving innovation with a broad perspective in my organization. Intense days that require some weekends to digest.

Symeon Spathis

SAP Technology and Innovation Architect, Richemont International, Switzerland

The program was a perfect cocktail of innovation and inspiration served by highly experienced professors. I left with many ideas and a higher level of strategic thinking.

Driving Strategic Innovation is a powerful alliance between IMD and MIT Sloan

You will develop innovation strategies that are purposeful, that achieve the goals of your organization and are not just innovation for innovation’s sake. You will become the leader confidently driving the change in your business.

Read more

Bill Fischer Program Co-Director
Next start & fee

Length: 6 days

Dates
4 May – 9 May 2025
Location
Lausanne
Length
6 days
Price
CHF 11,500
Dates
26 Oct – 31 Oct 2025
Location
Boston, US
Length
6 days
Price
USD 12,700

Price for the Driving Strategic Innovation program in Boston will increase to USD 12,700 as of September 2024.