Driving Strategic Innovation: Achieving High Performance Throughout the Value Chain

"Learning the frameworks had an immediate impact on my day-to-day work, and weeks later, Im still using them and sharing the insights with others. The professors are engaging and make the material clear and easy to internalize. The global cohort added real depth to the experience, and the content resonated equally well for entrepreneurs and those from larger organizations."

Hrag N

"It was a high impact week at MIT Executive Education with an inspirational learning experience on Driving Strategic Innovation. The coverage of relevant themes was extensive - with great case studies and relatable personal experiences from the professors. The diverse participants from around the globe offered immense potential for knowledge exchange. A course on Strategic Innovation can easily become a bit philosophical, with a great opening up of the mind but leaving one clueless on how to implement what was learnt in the real world . The course was specifically designed to prevent this potential pitfall and instead delivered on how to carry forward the learning into the real world and help us become more effective in our respective roles in enterprises seeking to transform and drive strategic innovation. This course helped me re-think on topics related to Virtuoso Teams, Organisation Change, the importance of smart skills , and how to create strategic value , capture value in ecosystem and deliver value to customers. Many thanks to professors, Bill Fischer, Charles Fine, Zhike Lei and Duncan Simester for helping us learn the art and science of achieving high performance through out the value chain. Thanks to the DSI cohort of diverse thinker-doers from around the world for the intense collaboration, congenial competition and inspiration!"

Sandhya Ramachandran A

"Overall, an excellent and well-structured MIT program with strong analytical depth. I appreciated the quality of instruction and case material. My only suggestions are to broaden the economic perspectives beyond the U.S. and China to include more diverse and emerging markets, and to consider ending the program slightly earlier to allow participants time to explore Bostons academic and innovation ecosystem. One note on Professor Duncan: while he is a brilliant and engaging storyteller, he tended to sidestep participant questions, which limited deeper discussion."

Yousif A

"The course offers an immersive and hands-on experience in innovation and strategy through a value-chain perspective. The professors deliver outstanding content and actively leverage the cohorts experiences to generate powerful insights. Highly recommended."

Rafael V

"Professors Bill Fischer Charles Fine were great pair modelled to impact knowledge. The experience was memorable and thrilling in every ramification. The training and equipping were classy and invaluable. Special thanks to the IMD team that did a great job. I recommend this program even to leaders that may not afford it."

Okechukwu J

"great overall learning experience, even though the scheduling of the classes could be better"

Ahmed B

"The course provided a holistic perspective of innovation in industries, the strategic decisions that need to be made in order to create, capture and deliver value, as well as the many factors needed to foster it and make it a continuous capability. It was an inspiring one week journey with lots of learnings and new connections, I am happy I was able to participate in it. The lecturers were all very experienced and a pleasure to work with."

Rodrigo B

"Most of the presented material was not new or unknown. However, if we take time from daily work and zoom out with an elevation of 40k feet things would come into perspective and would have meaning."

Faisal A

"Indeed, DSI was very informative, interactive, and interesting course. i have personally learned a lot. i would like to extend my thanks to Prof. Charles Prof. William for the excellent job done. i would also like to thank Prof. Zhike and Prof. Duncan for the interesting insights shared during the course."

Ahmed K. A

"I gained a lot from the DSI programme for my new role in my company. The lectures and practical cases, as well as the guest speakers, were very good to excellent. Two of the lectures were very basic if you already had an MBA background, but the professor responded to participants' requests and adapted the content. Overall, I can highly recommend Driving Strategic Innovation as a joint programme of MIT and IMD."

André R