Chicago Booth School of Business

Build an Innovative Organization

Chicago Booth School of Business

Strategy and Innovation Programs

About Programme

Turn Bold Ideas to Scalable, Disciplined Innovation

Build an Innovative Organization gives executives a practical playbook for improving processes, responding to customers, and scaling new offerings into sources of growth.

Innovation isn't only new technology—it's how an organization builds its next sources of value, whether in business models, products and services, operations, or customer experience. As AI gives organizations more ideas to pursue and more ways to execute, the advantage belongs to leaders who can determine what's worth pursuing and scale what delivers measurable impact.

This four-day program helps executives build that innovation discipline, equipping them with the judgment, structure, and evidence-based frameworks to make innovation a reliable driver of growth.

Drawing on real-world practice, behavioral science, human-centered design, and Nobel Prize–winning insights from portfolio theory and decision-making, the program offers a practical playbook for scaling innovation, in any industry.

This program serves as an elective to:

Learn Directly from a Leading Industry Practitioner This program often features world-class guest speakers from globally recognized organizations. Participants gain firsthand insights from senior leaders who share real-world perspectives on strategy, leadership, and organizational transformation.

Programme Content

Build a Discovery-Driven Enterprise

Institutionalize observing, questioning, testing, and connecting behaviors.
Hardwire curiosity and exploration into operating norms.
Convert individual habits into enterprise culture.
Target growth arenas using demand-side customer progress.
Direct investment toward validated jobs-to-be-done.
Translate insights into a prioritized opportunity roadmap.

From Insight to Evidence

Orchestrate rigorous discovery at scale across functions.
Define advantage through differentiated customer experiences.
Set strategic design criteria for market separation.
Establish “must be true” thresholds for ideas.
Govern learning with staged experiments and kill or pivot criteria.
Redirect resources using evidence over intuition.

Organize for Repeatable Innovation

Architect the three-speed innovation engine.
Separate exploration from exploitation with clear governance.
Allocate portfolios by strategy, not politics.
Link learning metrics to financial outcomes.
Build stage-appropriate leading and lagging indicators.
Create corporate innovation leader-ready dashboards for portfolio visibility.
Craft evidence-backed strategic narratives that compel action.
Align stakeholders and unlock resources at scale.
Sustain momentum through clearly aligned value paths.

Programme Objective

Across seven sessions, you will master discovery habits to uncover real customer needs, validate concepts through fast, disciplined experimentation, and design a three-speed innovation system—Exploration, Validation, and Acceleration. You'll learn to diagnose organizational roadblocks, clarify governance and accountability, align stage-appropriate KPIs to C-level outcomes, apply AI as an accelerant, and build the storytelling capabilities needed to mobilize stakeholders and sustain momentum. You’ll leave with a clear blueprint—governance, metrics, and methods—to build a repeatable, high-performing innovation engine.

By attending this program, you will explore key themes in:

Diagnosing Barriers to Innovation

Identify organizational, cultural, and process barriers to execution.
Apply diagnostic tools to uncover root causes and targeted solutions.

Organizational Design, Governance & Alignment

Build structures, roles, and decision rights that support innovation and speed.
Create systems that keep innovation focused and aligned.

Executing & Scaling Innovation

Translate ideas into measurable, repeatable results.
Enable innovation to scale across functions and business units.
Use AI to rapidly surface and pressure-test opportunities.

Culture & Leadership for Innovation

Foster environments where creativity and disciplined execution reinforce one another.
Lead teams to promote collaboration, trust, and sustained engagement.

Strategy, Transformation, and a Repeatable Innovation Engine

Integrate innovation into long-term strategy and organizational goals.
Develop a scalable approach to sustained competitiveness.

Programme Audience

Mid- to senior-level executives responsible for creating value and driving growth through new offerings, processes, or business models, especially within established organizations. They typically lead cross-functional teams in roles involving strategy, operations, product, marketing, or general management. Leaders from all industries can benefit.

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