Overview
What you will study
- Participants will leave the Driving Strategic Innovation - Achieving High Performance Throughout the Value Chain course offered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) armed with the knowledge of how to influence corporate culture, alter the way their organization responds to the challenge of strategic innovation, and strengthen relationships with partners along the value chain.
This intensive learning experience will deliver long-term value, helping business leaders to:
- Meet technology challenges, from R&D to manufacturing, and project management to engineering
- Link technology decisions with business strategy
- Integrate product development, process developments, and value-chain strategy
- Develop organization and supply-chain strategies to position the company for future growth
- Leverage learning and innovation collaboration with customers, lead users, and suppliers, maximizing the value of research
- Understand how technologies and markets evolve and how they are linked
- Outperform the competition by generating breakthrough ideas
- Cope with shorter product life cycles, while delivering greater customer satisfaction
- Optimize sourcing and “make-buy” decisions
- Integrate supply chain design with concurrent engineering
- Engage talent within the organization and across the value chain
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Incremental and discontinuous strategic innovation are not opposites, they are partners
- We love our customers, but we are always out of equilibrium with them
- We might serve our customers better by talking with people who are not our customers, and never will be
- Good ideas do not just rely on experts, they require non-experts as well
- Innovation thrives when ambiguity is both reduced and enlarged
- Creating value is not the same as capturing value
- Wide-ranging creativity requires discipline
- Bottom-up entrepreneurial innovation thrives under strong, self-confident, top-down leaders
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 6 days
Start dates & application deadlines
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- Early application is encouraged and will increase your chances of being accepted.
Language
Credits
Delivered
Campus Location
- Boston, United States
Disciplines
Strategic Management View 122 other Short Courses in Strategic Management in United StatesWhat students do after studying Business & Management
This information is based on LinkedIn alumni data for graduates from 2018 to 2024 and may not fully represent all career outcomes
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- This course is designed for senior executives and entrepreneurs who have significant input into the technology and innovation strategy of their organizations.
- Participants should play a key role within their organizations where they have the ability and perspective to look up and down the value chain to appraise strategic technology options wherever they arise.
Tuition Fees
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents12700 USD / full≈ 12700 USD / full - Out-of-State12700 USD / full≈ 12700 USD / full
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Domestic
Applies to youIn-State12700 USD / full≈ 12700 USD / full
Living costs
Boston
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.