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Meet your Driving Strategic Innovation Program Directors

A powerful alliance to change your approach to innovation

Our Faculty members are recognized world authorities in their fields. Dividing their time between teaching, research, and working with international companies, they remain on top of the latest management trends. You can expect timely, innovative learning activities, materials, and content in all IMD programs.

Driving Strategic Innovation is offered jointly by IMD and MIT Sloan. This powerful alliance, which began in 2003, is designed and led by IMD Professor Bill Fischer and MIT Sloan Professor Charles Fine, award-winning faculty members and world authorities in their fields. You will get to work with both of them during this fully immersive learning experience.

Bill Fischer

IMD Emeritus Professor of Innovation Management

Bill Fischer specializes in the art and practice of successful innovation, and the effective expression of talent. An engineer by training, American and Swiss by citizenship, and New Yorker by birth and attitude, Bill has lived much of his life in Asia and Europe. He co-founded the IMD partnership program on Driving Strategic Innovation in cooperation with the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Named as “one of the most influential business tweeters” by UK newspaper The Independent, he is also one of InnovationExcellence.com’s Top 50 Innovation Tweeters and InnovationManagement.com’s Top 40 Innovation Bloggers.

Charles Fine

MIT Sloan Professor of Operations Management

Charles Fine is the Chrysler Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Since 2015 he has also served as CEO, President, and Dean of the Asia School of Business (in Kuala Lumpur), established in collaboration with MIT Sloan.

His research focuses on supply chain strategy and value chain roadmapping, with a particular focus on fast-clockspeed manufacturing industries. His work has supported design and improvement of supply chain relationships for companies in electronics, automotive, aerospace, communications, and consumer products.

Why we can’t innovate

By Emeritus Professor William A. Fischer

Let’s look at some of the most familiar reasons that we are told account for innovation not being pursued or not being possible to do.

The death of strategy

By Emeritus Professor William A. Fischer

“So many things that used to have a beginning, a middle and an end, no longer have a middle or an end.”

We are failing at failing

By Emeritus Professor William A. Fischer

As a leader and innovator, you need to get comfortable with failing. Bill Fischer explains why.

Every innovation needs a story

By Emeritus Professor William A. Fischer

It is the story that often makes the innovation, rather than the other way around.