Strategic Leadership Programme For IT Companies [Batch 22]
IIM Bangalore - Executive Education
Strategy
Partner Institution
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Last date to apply: November 30, 2026 · Program starts on December 10, 2026
About Programme
AI is Rewriting the Rules of Competition
For over three decades, the IT services industry competed on scale, talent, quality and execution. Today, those foundations are no longer sufficient.
Generative AI, Agentic AI, intelligent automation, digital platforms, hyperscalers and Global Capability Centres are reshaping how value is created, delivered and captured. Clients are demanding business outcomes rather than technology implementation. Competitive advantage is shifting from execution excellence to strategic reinvention.
The question facing every technology leader is no longer:
“How do we execute better?” It is “How do we reinvent our business before the market reinvents it for us?”
This programme is designed to help senior leaders answer that question.
Why Senior Leaders Choose This Programme
Participants learn how to
Discover the next wave of profitable growth
Build AI-enabled business strategies
Compete in increasingly uncertain markets
Create businesses rather than merely deliver projects
Lead organisation-wide transformation
Translate strategy into measurable execution
Build organisations capable of sustained competitive advantage
A Leadership Journey Built Around Four Strategic Questions
Where Will Growth Come From?
Emerging markets
New business models
AI-enabled services
Platform businesses
Ecosystem strategy
How Will AI Change Competitive Advantage?
Generative AI
Agentic AI
Intelligent enterprises
Strategy in an AI-first world
Business model disruption
How Must Organisations Change?
Leadership for transformation
Organisation design
Strategic agility
Innovation capability
High-performance cultures
How Do Great Strategies Become Great Results?
Strategy execution
Alignment
Resource allocation
Governance
Leading strategic change
Learn Through World-Class Business Cases
Participants analyse contemporary strategic challenges through globally recognised business cases and executive discussions.
Each discussion focuses not simply on what these organisations did, but on how leaders made strategic choices under uncertainty and how those lessons apply to IT products and services companies.
Participants Will Leave With
A practical strategic leadership toolkit for navigating the AI era, including
✓ Frameworks for identifying growth opportunities
✓ Methods for evaluating strategic choices
✓ Approaches to AI-enabled transformation
✓ Tools for organisational alignment
✓ Models for sustainable competitive advantage
✓ Action plans for immediate application within their organisations
Programme Content
Framework of strategic thinking and management for competitive advantage
The process of growth strategy formulation at both corporate and business unit levels in IT companies
Concept of ‘Value Innovation’ and its application for the development of a new market space
Understanding industry dynamics and developing competitive strategy
Changing the organizational structure and internal systems to support strategy
Designing competence management programmes
Incubating and sustaining commitment amongst professionals employed with the companies
Addressing the pay-offs and pitfalls of implementing a performance management system that drives organizational cohesion and individual commitment.
Programme Objective
The purpose of this workshop is to help the participants to successfully manage a growing IT organization. Thus, the following concerns will guide this workshop.
How can managers identify and exploit growth opportunities?
What challenges arise as IT companies grow?
Interactive relationships between the business leader’s job of figuring out
What to do and the task of getting things done
The issue of developing organizational cohesion and individual commitment
Key benefits / takeaways
Developing capability to identify and exploit growth opportunity
Formulating growth strategies at both corporate and business unit levels
Developing a new market space
Aligning organizational structure and systems with support strategy
Pedagogy
Through a combination of lectures, role-plays, round table discussion and case studies.
Programme Audience
This programme is designed for
Business Unit Heads
Delivery Leaders
Practice Heads
Consulting Leaders
Digital Transformation Leaders
General Managers
Account Directors
Technology Leaders
Senior Project and Programme Managers
High-potential executives preparing for enterprise leadership roles
The IIM Bangalore Advantage
Participants benefit from
Rigorous strategic thinking
Frameworks grounded in decades of research and executive practice.
Contemporary relevance
Learning built around the strategic challenges facing technology companies today.
Peer learning
Meaningful discussions with experienced leaders from leading technology organisations.
Immediate applicability
Ideas, frameworks and tools that can be implemented from the first day back at work.
Join Leaders Who Shape the Future
The organisations that will lead the AI era will be those that combine strategic imagination with disciplined execution.This programme is designed for leaders who aspire not merely to manage change—but to shape it.
Programme Benefits
As a participant of this Short Duration Programme, you will be able to enjoy some exclusive benefits other than the outcomes such as skills and knowledge enhancement and building specific competencies that can help shape your career growth.
Some of the exclusive benefits of attending this programme are listed below –
Receive Executive Education eNewsletters
Invitation to share articles to the EEP blog (subject to a shortlisting process)
Participate in EEP webinars on various topics
Invitation to curated events and programs by the EEP office
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