Cambridge Judge Business School

Managing Innovation Strategically

Cambridge Judge Business School

Innovation and Technology

About Programme

Where do innovative ideas come from? Explore the foundations of innovation and discover how disruptive business models can become valuable corporate assets.

Operationalising innovation and selecting the right innovation projects are increasingly vital skills. The Cambridge Judge Business School 2-day programme, Managing Innovation Strategically, equips participants with the tools and frameworks to drive greater creativity and impact within their organisations. Gain insights into why businesses often struggle with innovation and learn strategies to break down organisational barriers. The programme also explores how disruptive innovation, like AI, can create significant competitive advantages. Discover how AI can unlock new opportunities, improve decision-making, and enhance agility, helping organisations pivot and thrive in an ever-changing business landscape.

Learn how to harness creativity to gain a critical competitor advantage.

Programme Content

Module 1: Why innovation is hard to achieve

Understand the strategic role of innovation in your organisation and how AI can support it in a responsible way.
Explore the systemic challenges of creating new value, including people, structure, culture, and incentives.
Conduct a diagnostic to identify the most critical bottlenecks across these dimensions.
Assess the key elements of strategic innovation capability.

Module 2: Disruptive innovation and capturing value from innovation

Explore different strategic approaches to innovation, including incremental, disruptive, and platform models.
Learn from transformative and disruptive companies, mapping successes and failures to your organisation’s strategy.
Understand how leading organisations approach innovation strategically.
Develop an innovation strategy that enables your organisation to create and capture value.

Module 3: Innovation as a process – Part I: Managing the creative organisation

Apply a process-based diagnostic framework to assess corporate innovation.
Recognise the role of people, structure, culture, and processes in driving idea generation.
Identify barriers to building a more innovative culture and learn how to overcome them.

Module 4: Innovation as a process – Part II: Aligning strategy with implementation

Explore the challenges of selecting the right portfolio of innovations to support your strategy.
Understand the limitations of existing tools and methods for managing innovation portfolios.
Apply the Cambridge Judge Business School Innovation Basket approach to prioritise and balance initiatives.

Programme Audience

This programme is for ambitious professionals looking to embed innovation, including:

Executives leading innovation functions such as CTOs, R&D leaders, and VPs of engineering and technology.
Department leaders responsible for driving innovation within their teams, from marketing to operations.
Strategy leaders focused on shaping and delivering business model innovation.
Managers stepping into, or preparing for, senior innovation leadership roles.

Programme Benefits

Benefits for you
Develop your ability to manage innovation.
Understand the factors required to support creativity and innovation in your teams and in your workplace.
Collaborate with leading members of the University of Cambridge and experience rigorous academic research combined with real-world, professional expertise.
Become part of an international and ambitious peer support network.
Receive a certificate of completion from Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education.
Benefits for your organisation
Learn the frameworks and processes to organise and implement innovation within your organisation.
Ensure your team can apply innovation, adapt to change and secure competitive advantage for your organisation.
Understand the factors needed to support creativity and innovation in your employees.

Testimonials

"I really enjoyed the Managing Innovation Strategically course; many useful takeaways and food for thought! The content was very engaging, the lecturers managed to make the course very interactive even in this virtual environment, and the discussion with the rest of the group was extremely insightful in terms of what other companies and industries out there are doing. Now time to figure out how to apply everything!"

Stephanie Stylianou

Lead Solution Engineer Salesforce

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