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    Reimagining Strategy: Applying Design Thinking to Your Organization

    Reimagining Strategy: Applying Design Thinking to Your Organization
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    • Format: In-Person
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    • The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.
    Cynthia Montgomery

    Make design thinking a core strategic priority.

    Cynthia A. Montgomery
    Faculty Cochair
    Srikant M. Datar
    Faculty Cochair
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    Cynthia Montgomery

    Make design thinking a core strategic priority.

    Cynthia A. Montgomery
    Faculty Cochair
    Srikant M. Datar
    Faculty Cochair
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    Email: executive_education@hbs.edu
    Varghese Thomas

    "I learned a great deal from Professor Datar's discussion about breaking away from functional fixedness."

    Varghese Thomas
    Director of Operational Excellence &amp
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    Varghese Thomas
    Director of Operational Excellence &amp
    Read His Story
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    Program Announcement
    The information below is based on the prior program session and does not reflect potential changes to faculty and course content for future program offerings. For a list of upcoming programs, visit our program finder.

    Summary

    Design thinking is a powerful tool for rethinking and revitalizing strategy—and for driving organizational performance. By placing customers' needs at the center of a product, service, process, or business model, you can reframe strategic challenges and develop more effective solutions. Drawing on right-brained creativity and left-brained analytics, this design thinking program enables you to broaden your strategic perspective, find novel opportunities for innovation, and keep your business moving forward.

    This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More

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    Summary

    Design thinking is a powerful tool for rethinking and revitalizing strategy—and for driving organizational performance. By placing customers' needs at the center of a product, service, process, or business model, you can reframe strategic challenges and develop more effective solutions. Drawing on right-brained creativity and left-brained analytics, this design thinking program enables you to broaden your strategic perspective, find novel opportunities for innovation, and keep your business moving forward.

    This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More

    Key Benefits
    Led by HBS professors Cynthia A. Montgomery and Srikant M. Datar, Reimagining Strategy explores strategy through a new lens. As you apply the latest design thinking techniques and tools to the complex problems facing your organization, you will foster a culture of creative change, spark breakthrough innovation, and boost your company's competitive advantage.

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    • Practice systematic inventive thinking (SIT) to overcome functional and relational immobility
    • Create models and deploy rapid prototyping to explore complex problems
    Build design thinking capabilitiesBuild design thinking capabilities
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    • Tolerate risk and failure in order to boost creative thinking—and promote learning
    • Foster a culture of creative critique and openness to change
    • Create design-thinking practices core to your strategic approach
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    • Build empathy with end users by observing their behavior and drawing conclusions based on qualitative information
    • Ensure that business decisions are driven by the user as you consider innovations in business models, products, services, or processes
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    • Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
    • Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions

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    Led by HBS professors Cynthia A. Montgomery and Srikant M. Datar, Reimagining Strategy explores strategy through a new lens. As you apply the latest design thinking techniques and tools to the complex problems facing your organization, you will foster a culture of creative change, spark breakthrough innovation, and boost your company's competitive advantage.
    Details

    Move quickly to develop innovative solutions

    • Practice systematic inventive thinking (SIT) to overcome functional and relational immobility
    • Create models and deploy rapid prototyping to explore complex problems

    Build design thinking capabilities

    • Tolerate risk and failure in order to boost creative thinking—and promote learning
    • Foster a culture of creative critique and openness to change
    • Create design-thinking practices core to your strategic approach

    Consider the needs of end users in every strategic decision

    • Build empathy with end users by observing their behavior and drawing conclusions based on qualitative information
    • Ensure that business decisions are driven by the user as you consider innovations in business models, products, services, or processes

    Expand your personal and professional network

    • Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
    • Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions

    Who Should Attend

    This design thinking course is appropriate for C-suite leaders and other senior executives who play a key role in the formulation and execution of strategy within their organizations, such as:

    • Presidents, chief executive officers, chief operating officers, chief strategy officers, and chief financial officers
    • Heads of business units, divisions, regions, or functions
    • Managing director, general manager, and director

    Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program’s impact on the organization. An executive team should include at least one C-suite executive and other senior executives.

    Program for Leadership Development participants earn 3 PLDA Points on completion of this program.

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    Global perspectives > Leadership growth > Organizational impact.
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    Who Should Attend

    This design thinking course is appropriate for C-suite leaders and other senior executives who play a key role in the formulation and execution of strategy within their organizations, such as:

    • Presidents, chief executive officers, chief operating officers, chief strategy officers, and chief financial officers
    • Heads of business units, divisions, regions, or functions
    • Managing director, general manager, and director

    Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program’s impact on the organization. An executive team should include at least one C-suite executive and other senior executives.

    Program for Leadership Development participants earn 3 PLDA Points on completion of this program.

    Dive Deeper into the Experience
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    Inside the Classroom
    See how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video
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    We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?
    Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video
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    Discover more about business. And yourself.
    Global perspectives > Leadership growth > Organizational impact.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video

    Learning and Living at HBS

    When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.

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    Learning and Living at HBS

    When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.

    Admissions Criteria and Process

    We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.
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    Answering Your Questions

    Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., call +1.617.495.6555).

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at +1.617.495.6226.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.

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    We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.

    Answering Your Questions

    Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., call +1.617.495.6555).

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at +1.617.495.6226.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.

    What You Will Learn

    Throughout this design strategy course, you and your peers will dive into the methodology of design thinking and explore its applications to business strategy. Through a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, case studies, small-group workshops, discussions, and hands-on exercises, you will expand your perspective on strategic issues, discover ways to redesign your organization's strategy, and learn how to apply design thinking to drive and sustain business success.

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    What You Will Learn

    Throughout this design strategy course, you and your peers will dive into the methodology of design thinking and explore its applications to business strategy. Through a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, case studies, small-group workshops, discussions, and hands-on exercises, you will expand your perspective on strategic issues, discover ways to redesign your organization's strategy, and learn how to apply design thinking to drive and sustain business success.

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    Understanding the innovation processUnderstanding the innovation process
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    • Gaining a big-picture view of the innovation process
    • Defining creativity and its essential role in innovation
    • Building the foundation and structure for innovation success
    Exploring human-centered designExploring human-centered design
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    • Identifying and understanding what customers need and want in a product, service, or process
    • Understanding who your target users are and how to reach them
    • Examining techniques for achieving deep customer understanding
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    • Overcoming barriers to innovation through problem framing
    • Identifying problem frames using webbing, abstract ladders, and strategy frameworks
    • Opening up new paths of thinking, redefining problems, and finding areas of opportunity
    Generating innovative ideasGenerating innovative ideas
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    • Exploring new approaches to innovative thinking and techniques for idea generation
    • Examining the tools of Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT), including task unification, division, attribute dependency, and inversion
    • Applying methods of structured ideation, such as the Nominal Group Technique, Round Robin, Creative Matrix, and Alternate Worlds
    Developing conceptsDeveloping concepts
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    • Focusing on the critical role that prototyping, experimenting, and iteration play in developing ideas
    • Understanding how failed experiments can reveal new options and lead to better final outcomes
    • Examining methods of prototyping, such as wire framing, body storming, think-aloud testing, and simulation
    • Exploring attribute-value mapping, design heuristics, concept poster, rose-thorn-bud, and critique

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    Understanding the innovation process

    • Gaining a big-picture view of the innovation process
    • Defining creativity and its essential role in innovation
    • Building the foundation and structure for innovation success

    Exploring human-centered design

    • Identifying and understanding what customers need and want in a product, service, or process
    • Understanding who your target users are and how to reach them
    • Examining techniques for achieving deep customer understanding

    Discovering areas of opportunity

    • Overcoming barriers to innovation through problem framing
    • Identifying problem frames using webbing, abstract ladders, and strategy frameworks
    • Opening up new paths of thinking, redefining problems, and finding areas of opportunity

    Generating innovative ideas

    • Exploring new approaches to innovative thinking and techniques for idea generation
    • Examining the tools of Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT), including task unification, division, attribute dependency, and inversion
    • Applying methods of structured ideation, such as the Nominal Group Technique, Round Robin, Creative Matrix, and Alternate Worlds

    Developing concepts

    • Focusing on the critical role that prototyping, experimenting, and iteration play in developing ideas
    • Understanding how failed experiments can reveal new options and lead to better final outcomes
    • Examining methods of prototyping, such as wire framing, body storming, think-aloud testing, and simulation
    • Exploring attribute-value mapping, design heuristics, concept poster, rose-thorn-bud, and critique

    Your Individual Project

    Upon acceptance into Reimagining Strategy, you will be asked to provide a short description of a current strategic problem or challenge facing your organization. Throughout the program, you will have the opportunity to work on a strategy to address this issue and seek input from HBS faculty and peers—a process that can help to clarify the root cause of strategic issues and produce a more effective solution.

    Optional Post-Program Virtual Follow-Up Session

    Three to four months after the program ends, you can participate in a virtual gathering with HBS faculty members and program participants. During this session, you and your peers will have the opportunity to discuss the status of your strategic projects and the implementation challenges you have encountered. You will share and receive feedback from faculty and peers as you rethink your strategic approach.

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    Your Individual Project

    Upon acceptance into Reimagining Strategy, you will be asked to provide a short description of a current strategic problem or challenge facing your organization. Throughout the program, you will have the opportunity to work on a strategy to address this issue and seek input from HBS faculty and peers—a process that can help to clarify the root cause of strategic issues and produce a more effective solution.

    Optional Post-Program Virtual Follow-Up Session

    Three to four months after the program ends, you can participate in a virtual gathering with HBS faculty members and program participants. During this session, you and your peers will have the opportunity to discuss the status of your strategic projects and the implementation challenges you have encountered. You will share and receive feedback from faculty and peers as you rethink your strategic approach.

    The HBS Advantage

    Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by HBS faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.

    Faculty Cochairs
    Srikant M. Datar
    Srikant M. Datar
    Srikant M. Datar

    Srikant M. Datar

    Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration

    HBS Unit:
    Accounting and Management

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    Cynthia A. Montgomery
    Cynthia A. Montgomery
    Cynthia A. Montgomery

    Cynthia A. Montgomery

    Timken Professor of Business Administration

    HBS Unit:
    Strategy

    Read Full Bio

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    The HBS Advantage

    Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by HBS faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.

    Faculty Cochairs
    Srikant M. Datar
    Srikant M. Datar
    Srikant M. Datar

    Srikant M. Datar

    Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration

    HBS Unit:
    Accounting and Management

    Read Full Bio

    Cynthia A. Montgomery
    Cynthia A. Montgomery
    Cynthia A. Montgomery

    Cynthia A. Montgomery

    Timken Professor of Business Administration

    HBS Unit:
    Strategy

    Read Full Bio

    Your Peers Expand Your Learning


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    Entertainment Technology Partners
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    Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages
    Johnson & Johnson
    Nuance Communications
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    Insights from a range of industries ignite your thinking.
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    Participating Companies Have Included:
    ABB
    Amazon
    Cloudera
    Entertainment Technology Partners
    ERM
    Fidelity
    Glenmark Pharmaceuticals
    Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages
    Johnson & Johnson
    Nuance Communications
    Sandoz International GmbH
    Tata Capital
    Program content, dates, schedule, fees, technology platforms, and faculty are subject to change. In accordance with Harvard University policy, Harvard Business School does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, veteran status, or disability in admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment in its programs and activities.
    Cynthia Montgomery

    Make design thinking a core strategic priority.

    Cynthia A. Montgomery
    Faculty Cochair
    Srikant M. Datar
    Faculty Cochair
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    Cynthia Montgomery

    Make design thinking a core strategic priority.

    Cynthia A. Montgomery
    Faculty Cochair
    Srikant M. Datar
    Faculty Cochair
    Learn More
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    Email: executive_education@hbs.edu
    Varghese Thomas

    "I learned a great deal from Professor Datar's discussion about breaking away from functional fixedness."

    Varghese Thomas
    Director of Operational Excellence &amp
    Read His Story
    Program Finder
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    Program Advising team
    Email: executive_education@hbs.edu
    Varghese Thomas

    "I learned a great deal from Professor Datar's discussion about breaking away from functional fixedness."

    Varghese Thomas
    Director of Operational Excellence &amp
    Read His Story
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    Program Advising team
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