6 Oct - 6 Dec 2023
8 Weeks
5-7 hours per week
£2,600
Innovation: A Design Thinking Approach is an immersive, live virtual learning experience which will contribute to a mindset change, inspire you to innovate in all functions and give you the practical tools to develop your ideas into a viable business proposition. The main objective of the programme is to understand how to become entrepreneurial within your own organisation and to inspire your teams and colleagues to innovate together.
Through this immersive and interactive programme you will:
- Hone your entrepreneurial spirit
- Have the opportunity to practice innovation
- Learn how to develop viable business ideas
- Inspire and enthuse others within your organisation
- Gain innovation project input from world-class experts
- Benefit from the immediate transfer of skills
- Learn to improve cross-department collaboration
- Engage with peers from around the world
Managers from anywhere in the world, in any industry, who aspire to innovate within their organisation and enable teams to innovate. Technical backgrounds are expected but not essential.
At Imperial College London, our world-leading experts have combined scientific rigour with practical experience and the latest research to develop immersive virtual programmes – delivered in real time – in several areas of commerce, leadership and innovation so you can define the very future of business. Let us meet you where you are – and take you where you want to be.
- Learn in real time through live interactive sessions from Imperial faculty and industry leaders
- Intensive approach that fits into your busy schedule
- Up to two live sessions per week, 90 minutes with Q&A
- Engaging, cutting-edge learning platform with mobile access
- Limited seats available; secure your seat early
- All live sessions are recorded so you can view them again at any time during the programme
Complete more than eight programme days or equivalent hours (56) for online and virtual programmes to claim 'Associate Alumni' status and join our active alumni community. Some of the benefits of becoming an Associate Alumni include:
- 25% discount on future Imperial College Executive Education open programmes for up to three colleagues from your organisation per year
- Access to the Imperial College Business School Alumni LinkedIn group
- Invitations to Executive Education and Business School events and webinars
- Invitations to worldwide alumni events
- Receive the monthly IB Knowledge newsletter
There is a one-week orientation period from the programme start date where you will have the opportunity to familiarise yourself with the learning platform, meet fellow participants and prepare for the programme ahead. We continue to accept bookings during the orientation period until live teaching sessions begin.
Note: Live teaching sessions begin after the orientation period. Sessions are normally held twice a week between 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. UK Time. Please download the brochure for full session schedule.
Module 1: Introduction and Overview & Disruption, Innovation and Uncertainty
Learn about the programme agenda and hear the programme director set the stage on different types of innovation, the challenges and uncertainty they present for incumbent firms in terms of their innovation strategy and competitive advantage, and how firms can overcome these challenges.
Design Thinking is a human centred approach for solving complex problems and identifying opportunities to innovate. Learn how to apply it to solve your challenges and see how this approach can help you innovate even in difficult environments. In this core part of the programme you will look at four key phases that will help you frame and understand how design thinking can drive innovation in your organisation.
In this session, Anu Wadhwa explains how to respond to uncertainty in an optimal way. Hear how to use uncertainty to your advantage through adopting an experimentation mindset and learn how creating an ambidexterous organisation will help you innovate.
Bart will discuss how corporate entrepreneurship is organised and help you understand how Unicorns are born in this context. You will also explore how to turn risk and uncertainty in your own context into an advantage that can help mobilise resources.
Successful innovation requires capturing the attention and generating the enthusiasm of important stakeholders. Learn how to craft an ‘Innovation Narrative’ and understand how to communicate and operationalise through teams. Organisational innovation depends on well-functioning teams. Learn about common team dysfunctions and how to avoid them, as well as the importance of first meetings and the value of a team charter. Then apply your learning to real life scenarios using your programme peers as coaches.
Foundations of Risk Finance Theory
Robert Kosowski, Associate Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School
This module deals with two fundamental problems in finance and risk management:
Robert Kosowski, Associate Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School
Financial Markets and Instruments
Robert Kosowski, Associate Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School
Bond pricing and interest rates
Robert Kosowski, Associate Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School
Introduction to Option and Swap Markets
Robert Kosowski, Associate Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School
Market Risk Management
Enrico Biffis, Associate Professor of Actuarial Finance at Imperial College Business School
Analytical VaR case studies
Enrico Biffis, Associate Professor of Actuarial Finance at Imperial College Business School
Portfolio VaR case studies
Enrico Biffis, Associate Professor of Actuarial Finance at Imperial College Business School
Market Risk Management
Enrico Biffis, Associate Professor of Actuarial Finance at Imperial College Business School
Other approaches to the computation of risk measures
Enrico Biffis, Associate Professor of Actuarial Finance at Imperial College Business School
Practical insights from a Chief Risk Officer in the non-financial sector
John Ludlow, CEO of AIRMIC (Association of Insurance and Risk Managers in Industry and Commerce)
Credit Risk Management
Damiano Brigo, Chair in Mathematical Finance at Imperial College London
Firm Value Models
Damiano Brigo, Chair in Mathematical Finance at Imperial College London
Intensity Models
Damiano Brigo, Chair in Mathematical Finance at Imperial College London
Multi-name Products and Models
Damiano Brigo, Chair in Mathematical Finance at Imperial College London
Counter-Party and Funding Risk
Damiano Brigo, Chair in Mathematical Finance at Imperial College London
Counterparty and Funding Risk
Damiano Brigo, Chair in Mathematical Finance at Imperial College London
Introduce CVA, DVA, FVA, KVA, and XVA
Anu is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. Her research helps established organisations examine patterns and processes of entrepreneurship, the impact of corporate entrepreneurship on organisational innovation, how entrepreneurial actors make decisions under extreme uncertainty and how pre-entry experience and knowledge impact post-entry innovation choices and outcomes.
Ileana Stigliani is Associate Professor of Design and Innovation at Imperial College Business School. She received her PhD in Management from Bocconi University, Milan. Her research focuses on the cognitive aspects of innovation. In particular, she studies how material artefacts and practices influence cognitive processes – such as sensemaking and sensegiving, categorisation, and perceptions of organisational and professional identities – within organisations.
Sankalp researches organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB), leadership, and interpersonal trust. He also examines the nature-nurture debate with regard to organisational behaviour. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organisational Behaviour & Human Decision Processes, Strategic Management Journal, Leadership Quarterly and the Journal of Management.
Bart is a founder of several tech start-up businesses involving digital cinema, mobile internet and venture incubation. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the annual Babson Kauffman Entrepreneurship Conference and Proceedings. He is also a member of both the Board of Advisors at the Royal College of Art accelerator ‘InnovationRCA’ and digital research centre ‘iMinds’.
At EPFL, Marc holds the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization (ENTC). Marc also acts as Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), the highest ranked empirical research journal in the management domain, and serves as a member of the research council at the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), Division 1.
Futurist to the Technology Foresight Practice at Imperial College, Richard is an acclaimed author, innovation blogger and the founder of nowandnext.com a website that documents global trends. Richard strives to help organisations prepare for current and future trends and scenarios affecting various industries by focusing on strategic foresight and scenario planning. Richard is the author of Future Files, which has been published in 15 languages, and the publisher of What’s Next, a website that documents global trends and speculates about future risks and opportunities.
Futurist to the Technology Foresight Practice at Imperial College, Richard is an acclaimed author, innovation blogger and the founder of nowandnext.com a website that documents global trends, Richard is an expert on all aspects of the future. Richard Watson strives to help organisations prepare for current and future trends and scenarios affecting various industries. Pulling together information from multiple sources, he focuses on strategic foresight and scenario planning. Richard is the author of Future Files, which has been published in 15 languages, and the publisher of What’s Next, a website that documents global trends and speculates about future risks and opportunities.
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Upon completion of the programme, participants will be awarded a verified Digital Certificate by Imperial College Business School Executive Education.
Note: As a live executive education programme, participant attendance and contribution is key to the learning experience and value of the programme. As such, participants are required to attend 80% of the live sessions to receive their Certificate.