Innovation in the Age of AI

Innovation, as a source of competitive advantage, has never been more critical or complex. Meanwhile, rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping how organizations generate ideas, make decisions, design work, and create value. Yet technology alone does not produce innovation, and that is true in the age of AI. Leaders must also build the organizational systems, cultures, and capabilities that turn promising ideas into meaningful impact.

Innovation in the Age of AI is an immersive four-day program designed to help leaders approach innovation strategically in a period of accelerating change. Drawing on MIT research and practice across innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership, organizational design, and artificial intelligence, the course examines how organizations can innovate repeatedly, effectively, and at scale.

Participants will explore both “Big I” Innovation—the transformative initiatives and emerging technologies that can create significant new value—and “little i” innovation—the everyday practices, experiments, and improvements that make an organization more adaptive. Through faculty-led sessions, collaborative exercises, practical assessments, and engagement with the Kendall Square innovation ecosystem, participants will develop a more integrated approach to leading innovation in the age of AI.

Breakfast and Registration

Innovation Systems and Ecosystems

The Power of AI-Accelerated Inquiry

Welcome Reception

Breakfast

Dynamic Work Design and Continuous improvement

Generative AI: Building Sustainable AI Capabilities

Group Dinner

Breakfast

Distributed Leadership: Leading Organizations through Change

The Path Forward: Lessons from the Ecosystem, Articulating Your Innovation Strategy

The Venture Café

Breakfast

Human First AI

The Path Forward: Lessons from the Ecosystem, Articulating Your Innovation Strategy

Closing Remarks

This course is designed for senior leaders as well as those preparing for senior roles in public- and private-sector organizations who are responsible for shaping strategy, driving transformation, or building innovation capabilities.

It is particularly relevant for executives leading innovation, strategy, technology, digital transformation, organizational development, or cross-functional initiatives. Participants may come from multinational corporations, government agencies, growing enterprises, universities, nonprofits, or regional innovation organizations.

The course is well suited to decision-makers who want to understand how AI is changing the innovation landscape without treating AI as a standalone technical topic. Participants should come prepared to examine their own organizational practices, engage with peers from different sectors and regions, and develop practical approaches they can apply after the program.

Frameworks

Utilize MIT Sloan research-based frameworks to assessing your organization’s innovation practices

Action Plan

Leave with an innovation handbook to help apply course concepts to your own organizations and shape a practical path forward

Mens et Manus

Engage external ecosystems in Kendall Square to expand innovation capacity and observe how entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, corporations, and other stakeholders connect to exchange knowledge and accelerate innovation

Certificate

Earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management