MIT Sloan Business School

Transforming Your Leadership Strategy

This program is built around MIT's unique Distributed Leadership Model―a powerful, innovative approach to executive leadership that lies at the core of leadership development at MIT, and the result of an intensive, four-year research project at the MIT Leadership Center to identify more effective strategies for leading in a networked economy. Tested in diverse, real-world settings, the model allow managers to succeed as leaders by being flexible and adaptive in new and unexpected ways. For more information, click here.

Creating High Velocity Organizations

Creating High Velocity Organizations employs several teaching techniques—presentations, case discussions, video dramatizations, and an in-class simulation —emphasizing a participatory style to maximize the opportunities for “learning by doing”. The program material is organized into thematic modules designed around the four key principles of building the discovery capability in an organization—smart work design, creative problem solving, continuous knowledge sharing, and developing of discovery skills among employees. Each module consists of several sessions, which demonstrate, first, the positive impact through successful application of those key principles, and then provides examples of negative results when those principles were clearly needed but not applied. Each session is punctuated by facilitated small-group exercises, in which participants can actively apply the ideas and examples offered in class to their own specific, real-life situations. For more information, click here.

Leading Change in Complex Organizations

The 21st century organization is enormously complex, difficult to understand, and even more difficult to manage. A volatile mix of dynamics is triggering changes in the workplace. As the complexity increases, effective managers must have a strong knowledge of the people in the organization and the tasks they perform. And they must have the skills to use that knowledge in practical and flexible ways. This program will present innovative perspectives on managerial problems and offers practical ways to solve them. The issues examined apply across organizations, national boundaries, and technical domains. For more information, click here.

Building, Leading, and Sustaining the Innovative Organization

This program is designed to help spark the breakthrough ideas business leaders need to create successful competitive products for the future. Drawing on the latest MIT Sloan research, the program will offer a set of strategies for growing companies in the face of changing markets, technologies, and consumer demand. Specifically, participants will be presented with tactics for dealing with the internal politics and resistance to change that can threaten innovation initiatives and early-stage developments, techniques for building innovation streams, processes for collecting competitive intelligence, forecasting technology change, and gathering information on user needs, methods for identifying better innovations more quickly, including the lead-user method for discovering breakthrough products, services, and strategies; and innovation toolkits that enable managers to design their own mass-customized products and services. For more information, click here.

Developing a Leading Edge Operations Strategy

In this program, senior managers will learn new approaches to operations strategy that were developed at MIT and based on best-practice research conducted among the world's leading service and manufacturing companies. Participants will gain an analytic view of operations and strategic insights intovertical integration and the factors that affect strategic decisions, process design and process engineering, integration of people systems with technical systems, global facility network strategies and the future of supply chain management, strategic implications of process technologies, capacity and risk management, including capacity factors, supply and demand management, and outsourcing, supplier power, and trends in supplier management. For more information, click here.Reviews 

Dynamics of Globalization

This new program will explore how various countries and firms are successfully meeting the challenge of increasing globalization. The material will be presented from three complementary angles— economic, sociological, and political science—that together will help managers develop a broad perspective on the issues of globalization. Faculty and participants will trace the implications of global competition on the economy, politics, and emerging markets. Examples that represent different regions and types of organizations—multinational and local firms from both developing nations and industrialized countries—will be presented throughout the program. For more information, click here.

Energy Innovation: MIT's Approach to Discovering and Realizing Energy Opportunities

Energy is the challenge as well as the opportunity of our generation. This innovative new four-day program is designed to enable business executives, entrepreneurs and government officials to more effectively encourage, lead and manage the entire venture creation process for energy-be they stand alone new ventures or pioneering undertakings inside of larger organizations. The process includes identifying opportunities, generating new ideas, designing a holistic solution, and building a viable, significant, and sustainable new energy-oriented business. For more information, click here.

Revitalizing Your Digital Business Model

As the world continues to digitize and grow in complexity, virtually every enterprise will need to have a great digital business model, one that creates value by engaging customers digitally. The digital marketplace is redefining customer relationships, the way employees work, and how companies build and exploit internal and external capabilities. This new program is designed to guide senior executives as they attempt to meet the complex challenges of competing in the digital marketplace. Based on extensive MIT research, it provides insights into how firms can achieve competitive advantage by providing unique digital content, an exceptional customer experience, and superior digitized platforms. For more information, click here.

Strategy in a Global World