Creating High Velocity Organizations

Why attend Creating High Velocity Organizations?

Some firms outperform competitors in many ways at once—cost, speed, innovation, and service. How can some companies perform so well that their industry counterparts are competitors in name only? What makes these organizations not just succeed but consistently excel?

The answer has to do with the ability to systematize innovation—taking it from the occasional, unpredictable stroke of genius to something you and your team do daily to outdistance rivals.

Creating High Velocity Organizations

demonstrates what sets market-dominating companies apart and provides a detailed framework you can leverage to surge to the lead in your own industry. The course examines the internal operations of dominant organizations across a wide spectrum of industries, from technology and design to manufacturing and health care.

While the course investigates several great operational triumphs, like top-tier teaching hospitals' fantastic improvements in quality of care, Pratt & Whitney's competitive gains in jet engine design, and the US Navy's breakthroughs in inventing and applying nuclear propulsion, the course is not just about the adoration of success. It also takes a critical look at some of the operational missteps that have humbled even the most reputable and respected of companies and organizations.

Through presentations, case studies, and hands-on learning activities, you will learn principles that form the basis for structured continuous learning and improvement and walk away with a better understanding of how to:

Build a system of “dynamic discovery” designed to reveal operational problems and weaknesses as they arise

Attack and solve problems when and where they occur, converting weaknesses into strengths

Disseminate knowledge gained from solving local problems throughout the company as a whole

Create managers invested in developing everyone's capacity to continually innovate and improve

Generate faster, better results using less capital and fewer resources

Course Topics

This course will enable participants to:

Create an organization where work is done by harnessing the best-known approaches available and signaling the need for new knowledge

Solve problems as they arise and to develop new understanding that prevents the problems from recurring

Multiply the impact of local discoveries by making them useful systemically throughout the organization

Lead an organization where discovery is encouraged, supported, and promoted at all times.

Upon successful completion of your course, you will earn a certificate of completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management. This course may also count toward MIT Sloan Executive Certificate requirements.