What You Can Expect
Leading Product Innovation improves your ability to execute company strategy by leveraging effective product development. This HBS Executive Education program will help you recognize the opportunities for reinventing your innovation systems, retooling your processes, and thinking outside the box. You will leave with new insights that help you manage innovation-driven development to gain competitive advantage for your company. Specifically, you will be better able to:
- Create focused product plans aligned with your firm's strategy
- Recognize and create new opportunities for product innovation
- Design a development strategy for deciding which projects to pursue
- Leverage disruptive and open innovation models
- Reduce the time it takes to bring new products to market
- Reevaluate your product portfolio as financial and market conditions evolve
- Tap into customers as sources of innovation
- Approach each project as an opportunity to develop new capabilities
- Build and motivate a development team that continues to learn from experience and improve its processes
- Get more value out of sustaining technologies
- Develop experimentation capabilities within your organization
How Will My Organization Benefit?
Executive Education programs at Harvard Business School are a significant investment for both you and your organization. Going far beyond the basic transmission of skills and theories, each leadership development program provides applicable lessons in the classroom that can be implemented successfully within your organization. You will acquire a fresh perspective on global business from our groundbreaking curriculum, world-renowned faculty, and an accomplished group of elite peers from around the world.
"Leading product innovation is a critical component of my job. This course was instrumental in providing me with a toolkit and the theoretical framework to apply immediately in my day-to-day work."
Blackford Middleton, M.D. [Corporate Director, R&D], Partners Healthcare System, Inc., U.S.