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The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals.

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Telephone: +1.408.806.9595
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Email: janjua@ctoforum.org
Telephone: +1.408.806.9595
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Summary

World-class companies striving to achieve growth objectives face many hurdles, including the impact of digital disruption. CTO Forum and Harvard Business School (HBS) Executive Education have joined forces to help Fortune 500 companies harness the extraordinary potential of technology with Rethink Strategy and Innovation: Strategic Leadership of Technology and Innovation. This groundbreaking program helps senior leaders identify, examine, and overcome key challenges inherent in developing and leading today's winning businesses. You'll gain insight into strategy, disruption, and innovation, along with gaining a fresh perspective and new strategic approaches essential to sustaining a competitive edge.

Summary: World-class companies striving to achieve growth objectives face many hurdles, including the impact of digital disruption. CTO Forum and Harvard Business School (HBS) Executive Education have joined forces to help Fortune 500 companies harness the extraordinary potential of technology with Rethink Strategy and Innovation: Strategic Leadership of Technology and Innovation. This groundbreaking program helps senior leaders identify, examine, and overcome key challenges inherent in developing and leading today's winning businesses. You'll gain insight into strategy, disruption, and innovation, along with gaining a fresh perspective and new strategic approaches essential to sustaining a competitive edge.

Key Benefits

Focusing on challenges at the intersection of technology, business, and society, this program provides innovative strategies that will help you transform your leadership, deliver value through technology, and differentiate your company. You'll discover new approaches for transforming your organization by building a culture of breakthrough innovation, corporate renewal, and systemic growth.

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Enable long-term relevance and competitiveness Enable long-term relevance and competitiveness

Differentiate ideas, frameworks, and strategies to ensure sustainable innovation
Prevent degeneration and stagnancy
Maintain passion, imagination, and deeper employee engagement for the long run

Create an organization that can innovate on an ongoing basis Create an organization that can innovate on an ongoing basis

Master the design rules for systemic innovation as part of strategy
Prevail against entrenched bias to launch a game-changing agenda
Transform innovation from an occasional act into a predictable capability
Harness "cognitive surplus" in the workforce to create business value

Improve business agility and drive growth Improve business agility and drive growth

Implement strategies to overcome corporate inertia
Grow current and future markets through ambidexterity
Invigorate internal corporate ventures, research and development (R&D), mergers and acquisitions, and incubation

Expand your personal and professional network Expand your personal and professional network

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

Key Benefits

Details

Enable long-term relevance and competitiveness

Differentiate ideas, frameworks, and strategies to ensure sustainable innovation
Prevent degeneration and stagnancy
Maintain passion, imagination, and deeper employee engagement for the long run

Create an organization that can innovate on an ongoing basis

Master the design rules for systemic innovation as part of strategy
Prevail against entrenched bias to launch a game-changing agenda
Transform innovation from an occasional act into a predictable capability
Harness "cognitive surplus" in the workforce to create business value

Improve business agility and drive growth

Implement strategies to overcome corporate inertia
Grow current and future markets through ambidexterity
Invigorate internal corporate ventures, research and development (R&D), mergers and acquisitions, and incubation

Expand your personal and professional network

Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries around 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 program is ideal for senior business and technology executives of Fortune 500 and other well-established global companies, including:

CEOs, presidents, chief operating officers, chief innovation officers, and strategy officers
Chief technology officers, vice presidents (VPs) of engineering and of product, and R&D lab directors
Chief information officers, information technology (IT) CTOs, and VPs of development and of IT

Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact on your organization.

Participating Companies Have Included:

Chevron

Mastercard Incorporated

Pepsi

Schneider Electric

Sephora

State Farm

Verizon

Walmart

Dive Deeper into the Experience

Inside the Classroom

See how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.

We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?

Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.

Discover more about business. And yourself.

Global perspectives > Leadership growth > Organizational impact.

Who Should Attend

This program is ideal for senior business and technology executives of Fortune 500 and other well-established global companies, including:

CEOs, presidents, chief operating officers, chief innovation officers, and strategy officers
Chief technology officers, vice presidents (VPs) of engineering and of product, and R&D lab directors
Chief information officers, information technology (IT) CTOs, and VPs of development and of IT

Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the program's impact on your organization.

Participating Companies Have Included:

Chevron

Mastercard Incorporated

Pepsi

Schneider Electric

Sephora

State Farm

Verizon

Walmart

Dive Deeper into the Experience

Inside the Classroom

See how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.

We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?

Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.

Discover more about business. And yourself.

Global perspectives > Leadership growth > Organizational impact.

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.

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

To register for the 2019 HBS/CTO program, please visit the CTO Forum website.

Admissions Criteria and Process

To register for the 2019 HBS/CTO program, please visit the CTO Forum website.

What You Will Learn

Your rich learning experience will include faculty presentations, small-group discussions, executive roundtables, and industry guest speakers. You'll also take a close look at innovation in action through global case studies on companies like The Walt Disney Company and Pixar, Adobe, General Electric, Jones Lang LaSalle, and Schibsted.

HBS provides study materials and cases prior to the program start date. Given the intensive schedule during the program, your advanced preparation will ensure that you can maximize the value of your time on campus and fulfill your responsibilities to participate actively in discussions with faculty and peers.

What You Will Learn

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Redefining innovation: creating and capturing value Redefining innovation: creating and capturing value

Redefining the locus of innovation
Putting customers at the center of your innovation stream
Encouraging organic growth initiatives to transform culture
Achieving exceptional performance with simple operating systems

Rethink digital strategies: disruptions and opportunities Rethink digital strategies: disruptions and opportunities

Reinventing business through digital transformation
Leading in the age of digital disruption
Managing strategic change
Promoting design thinking and creativity
Understanding innovation streams
Developing digital business models

Rethink strategy: value innovation Rethink strategy: value innovation

Creating value with complementors
Fostering distributed and open innovation
Managing disruptions and uncertainty
Leveraging innovation communities
Formulating and executing a technology strategy
Employing helpful models for spotting new opportunities
Managing exploratory processes for innovation and venturing

Key Areas

Redefining innovation: creating and capturing value

Redefining the locus of innovation
Putting customers at the center of your innovation stream
Encouraging organic growth initiatives to transform culture
Achieving exceptional performance with simple operating systems

Rethink digital strategies: disruptions and opportunities

Reinventing business through digital transformation
Leading in the age of digital disruption
Managing strategic change
Promoting design thinking and creativity
Understanding innovation streams
Developing digital business models

Rethink strategy: value innovation

Creating value with complementors
Fostering distributed and open innovation
Managing disruptions and uncertainty
Leveraging innovation communities
Formulating and executing a technology strategy
Employing helpful models for spotting new opportunities
Managing exploratory processes for innovation and venturing

The HBS Advantage

Offered in collaboration with the CTO Forum, Rethink Strategy and Innovation is 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 Chair

Stefan H. Thomke

William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:

Technology and Operations Management

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Faculty

Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:

Strategy

Read Full Bio

Clayton M. Christensen

Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration

HBS Units:

General Management

Technology and Operations Management

Read Full Bio

Ranjay Gulati

Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:

Organizational Behavior

Read Full Bio

Sunil Gupta

Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:

Marketing

Read Full Bio

Marco Iansiti

David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:

Technology and Operations Management

Read Full Bio

Michael L. Tushman

Baker Foundation Professor, Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus

HBS Unit:

Organizational Behavior

Read Full Bio

Guest Speakers

HBS faculty members have enduring relationships with some of the world's most renowned leaders; many of those who are invited to speak are the actual protagonists featured in the cases studied during the program. These inspiring sessions, often considered once-in-a-lifetime highlights, deepen the learning experience and give you firsthand insights into how top executives have overcome critical business challenges.

Bruce D. Broussard

Humana:
President and CEO

Read Full Bio

Seifi Ghasemi

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.:
Chair, President and CEO

Read Full Bio

ED McLAUGHLIN

Mastercard, Inc.:
President, Operations and Technology

William Ruh

Digital, Lendlease:
Chief Executive Officer

Read Full Bio

Stephan Schenk

TD Group US Holdings, LLC:
President and CEO

Paul Chapman

Gap Inc.:
EVP and Chief Information Officer

Read Full Bio

James Swanson

Monsanto Co.:
CIO

John Ferriola

Nucor Corp.:
CEO

Read Full Bio

Ben Fowke

Xcel Energy, Inc.:
CEO

Read Full Bio

The HBS Advantage: Offered in collaboration with the CTO Forum, Rethink Strategy and Innovation is 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 Chair

Stefan H. Thomke

William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:

Technology and Operations Management

Read Full Bio

Faculty

Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:

Strategy

Read Full Bio

Clayton M. Christensen

Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration

HBS Units:

General Management

Technology and Operations Management

Read Full Bio

Ranjay Gulati

Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:

Organizational Behavior

Read Full Bio

Sunil Gupta

Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:

Marketing

Read Full Bio

Marco Iansiti

David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration

HBS Unit:

Technology and Operations Management

Read Full Bio

Michael L. Tushman

Baker Foundation Professor, Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus

HBS Unit:

Organizational Behavior

Read Full Bio

Guest Speakers

HBS faculty members have enduring relationships with some of the world's most renowned leaders; many of those who are invited to speak are the actual protagonists featured in the cases studied during the program. These inspiring sessions, often considered once-in-a-lifetime highlights, deepen the learning experience and give you firsthand insights into how top executives have overcome critical business challenges.

Bruce D. Broussard

Humana:
President and CEO

Read Full Bio

Seifi Ghasemi

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.:
Chair, President and CEO

Read Full Bio

ED McLAUGHLIN

Mastercard, Inc.:
President, Operations and Technology

William Ruh

Digital, Lendlease:
Chief Executive Officer

Read Full Bio

Stephan Schenk

TD Group US Holdings, LLC:
President and CEO

Paul Chapman

Gap Inc.:
EVP and Chief Information Officer

Read Full Bio

James Swanson

Monsanto Co.:
CIO

John Ferriola

Nucor Corp.:
CEO

Read Full Bio

Ben Fowke

Xcel Energy, Inc.:
CEO

Read Full Bio

Need Help? Contact Us:

The CTO Forum

Mr. Basheer Janjua
Email: janjua@ctoforum.org
Telephone: +1.408.806.9595
CTO Registration

Program Finder

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Email: janjua@ctoforum.org
Telephone: +1.408.806.9595
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Rethink Strategy & Innovation: Strategic Leadership of Technology and Innovation

Summary

Summary

DetailsExpand All Collapse All

Enable long-term relevance and competitiveness Enable long-term relevance and competitiveness

Create an organization that can innovate on an ongoing basis Create an organization that can innovate on an ongoing basis

Improve business agility and drive growth Improve business agility and drive growth

Expand your personal and professional network Expand your personal and professional network

Key Benefits

Key Benefits

Enable long-term relevance and competitiveness

Create an organization that can innovate on an ongoing basis

Improve business agility and drive growth

Expand your personal and professional network

Who Should Attend

Who Should Attend

Learning and Living at HBS

Learning and Living at HBS

Admissions Criteria and Process

Admissions Criteria and Process

Admissions Criteria and Process

What You Will Learn

What You Will Learn

Key AreasExpand All Collapse All

Redefining innovation: creating and capturing value Redefining innovation: creating and capturing value

Rethink digital strategies: disruptions and opportunities Rethink digital strategies: disruptions and opportunities

Rethink strategy: value innovation Rethink strategy: value innovation

Key Areas

Key Areas

Redefining innovation: creating and capturing value

Rethink digital strategies: disruptions and opportunities

Rethink strategy: value innovation

The HBS Advantage

Guest Speakers

The HBS Advantage

Guest Speakers

Rethink Strategy & Innovation: Strategic Leadership of Technology and Innovation

Summary

Summary

DetailsExpand AllCollapse All

Enable long-term relevance and competitivenessEnable long-term relevance and competitiveness Dropdown down

Create an organization that can innovate on an ongoing basisCreate an organization that can innovate on an ongoing basis Dropdown down

Improve business agility and drive growthImprove business agility and drive growth Dropdown down

Expand your personal and professional networkExpand your personal and professional network Dropdown down

Enable long-term relevance and competitiveness

Create an organization that can innovate on an ongoing basis

Improve business agility and drive growth

Expand your personal and professional network

Who Should Attend

Who Should Attend

Learning and Living at HBS

Learning and Living at HBS

Admissions Criteria and Process

What You Will Learn

What You Will Learn

Key AreasExpand AllCollapse All

Redefining innovation: creating and capturing valueRedefining innovation: creating and capturing value Dropdown down

Rethink digital strategies: disruptions and opportunitiesRethink digital strategies: disruptions and opportunities Dropdown down

Rethink strategy: value innovationRethink strategy: value innovation Dropdown down

Redefining innovation: creating and capturing value

Rethink digital strategies: disruptions and opportunities

Rethink strategy: value innovation

The HBS Advantage

Guest Speakers

The HBS Advantage

Guest Speakers

DetailsExpand All Collapse All

Enable long-term relevance and competitiveness Enable long-term relevance and competitiveness

Create an organization that can innovate on an ongoing basis Create an organization that can innovate on an ongoing basis

Improve business agility and drive growth Improve business agility and drive growth

Expand your personal and professional network Expand your personal and professional network

Key AreasExpand All Collapse All

Redefining innovation: creating and capturing value Redefining innovation: creating and capturing value

Rethink digital strategies: disruptions and opportunities Rethink digital strategies: disruptions and opportunities

Rethink strategy: value innovation Rethink strategy: value innovation