Leading Strategic Growth and Change

Learn how to find opportunities, launch new ventures, and lead necessary organizational changes to revitalize and transform an organization in times of uncertainty.

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Leading Strategic Growth and Change is focused on the process of finding opportunities, launching new ventures, and leading necessary organizational changes to revitalize and transform an organization in times of uncertainty.

Participants will learn how to thrive in rapidly changing and highly uncertain environments and will be able to immediately apply their learning to make rapid progress on an issue they identify.

If you have ever worried about how to drive new growth or how to make a change initiative successful, you will enjoy the insights developed in this live online program.

For a complete program schedule, please download the agenda.

Please contact our Learning Solutions Specialists at +1 212-854-3395 to learn more.

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Faculty Perspective

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This program is more relevant than ever, because it presumes high levels of uncertainty, complexity, and velocity in every tool and technique we present. It further covers both the analytical side of coping with uncertainty (what to do) as well as the human side (how to get people to realize the challenges and respond appropriately). In this program, we insist on driving strategic decision making from the perspective of deep insight and differentiating rather than going along with the crowd.

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Rita Gunther McGrath

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Faculty Director

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Professor Rita McGrath shares insight about what participants gain from peer to peer learning at the Leading Strategic Growth and Change program.

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After taking this course, you will be able to:

Understand and describe the six elements of your new strategy playbook
Rapidly evaluate and prioritize the activities currently in your portfolio
Decide which programs or projects to stop and how to disengage from them
Explore how to lead through change and uncertainty
Reframe problems to spark novel solutions
Smartly plan your digital transformation strategy
Create plans that facilitate learning rather than assuming knowledge
Understand the political and implementation challenges of growth
Identify opportunities to create a ‘platform’ business model
Understand how to create important relationships with ecosystem partners
Gain deep customer insight

Upon completion of this program, you will earn three credits towards a certificate with select alumni and tuition benefits. Learn more.

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Program Structure

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The program is designed to address the levels of unprecedented uncertainty we are all facing.

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Day 1

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Setting the context: an overview of why innovation is no longer optional in the transient advantage economy and the new strategy playbook
Introduction to an alternative to growth-strangling metrics: Real options reasoning
Creating an opportunity portfolio
Optional Project Workshop

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Day 2

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Think Wrong Workshop, an immersion day on Design Thinking showing you how to unfreeze your thinking to create novel solutions
Optional Project Workshop

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Day 3

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De-mystifying digital transformation: how increasingly strategy = innovation = digital
Discovery Driven Planning, a technique for planning to learn quickly, manage risk, and bring down costs when operating under high levels of uncertainty
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Day 4

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An entirely new force in our economy consists of complementors – learn why you can’t avoid understanding this to be successful
Platform strategies: the newest trend in business models
The economics and often counterintuitive behavior of two-sided markets
Why Uber’s original business model has flaws as a platform
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Day 5

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Disengagement: how to gracefully shut down a project or end a business
Create a simple formula for leading organizational transformation, accompanied by a diagnostic
Customers should not be a mystery – 3 techniques for understanding them better

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For a complete program schedule, please download the agenda.

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Bill Labbe

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Senior Vice President, TRC Solutions

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Rita [McGrath] has a deep understanding of the challenges facing an organization’s strategic planning and growth, and provides the necessary framework for disciplined action to affect positive outcomes.

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Fernando Erazo

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Director Strategy & Business Development, Philips Electronics Middle East & Africa

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LSGC translated into a system to manage initiatives for growth: with more discipline, more granularity, better assumptions tracking, clearer consequences, and therefore stronger internal commitment (i.e. funding via the yearly budget cycle) to pursue growth.

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Paul Andre Boxill

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CEO at Bate Boligbyggelag

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The program exceeded my expectations and is highly related to what top management focuses on in today's changing and highly competitive market place.

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Dr. Aziz (Ivan) Khan

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CEO at Khan's Tutorial

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Leading Strategic Growth and Change was the final course to complete my Certificate in Business Excellence at Columbia Business School. I found the course so helpful to make better choices moving forward that I hope to return next year for more programs in the strategy category at Columbia Business School Executive Education.

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Alexandra Helfer

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Vice President of Program Development at Mountainside

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Before coming to Leading Strategic Growth and Change, I thought I was well aware of the change needed in our organization. Within two hours of being in the classroom, I realized I had been looking in the wrong place all along. The tools that were provided are applicable to any organization in any industry.

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Hendro Tjugito

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Director / Owner at Pt.Intimas Chemindo

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No one understands business until you run a business. As an executive, I have the experience but not the framework to tackle the issues I am facing. Columbia Executive Education provides me with that framework. This completes the whole cycle of experience and knowledge.

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Salihu Bakari

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Director at Tertiary Education Trust Fund

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This is one of the most fascinating and thought-provoking programs I have ever attended. A worthwhile program. I am happy and privileged to have participated.

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Participant Profile

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Leading Strategic Growth and Change is designed for upper- to senior-level executives who seek significant growth opportunities for their organizations.

Columbia Business School alumni and up to four of their colleagues are eligible for a 25 percent tuition benefit for this program. More on the Alumni Tuition Benefit.

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