Chicago Booth School of Business

Strategic Innovation in the AI Era

Chicago Booth School of Business

Strategy and Innovation Programs

About Programme

Turn Bold Ideas to Scalable, Disciplined Innovation

Strategic Innovation in the AI Era equips executives with evidence-based frameworks to translate innovation into measurable business growth.

As artificial intelligence gives organizations more ideas to pursue and more ways to execute, the advantage belongs to leaders who can determine what's worth pursuing and successfully scale it.

This four-day program helps executives build that innovation discipline—the rigor to uncover where real opportunity lies, the system to execute the bets worth making, and the credibility to unlock resources that expand momentum.

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 turning ideas and AI intentions into scaled, measurable results.

This program was previously known as Build an Innovative Organization.

This program can serve as an elective to:

Advanced Management Program — Awards Chicago Booth alumni status

Mid- to senior-level executives responsible for creating value by innovating offerings or business models. This includes leaders charged with moving AI pilots into measurable operating impact. Leaders from any industry, including financial services, manufacturing, construction, professional services, tech, retail, and healthcare, can benefit.

Download the brochure for in-depth insights into participant profiles.

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 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

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.
Leverage a three-speed innovation system: Exploration, Validation, and Acceleration.
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 by innovating offerings or business models. This includes leaders charged with moving AI pilots into measurable operating impact. Leaders from any industry, including financial services, manufacturing, construction, professional services, tech, retail, and healthcare, can benefit.

Download the brochure for in-depth insights into participant profiles.

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