Companies large and small are seeking non-linear growth and hence driving innovation has become a priority. Yet, many companies struggle to bring their big ideas to life. This is because the real innovation challenge lies beyond just the idea, in the long journey from imagination to business impact. In this course, participants understand how to manage the competing demands of running today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. This course is developed by one of the world’s leading authorities on innovation, professor Vijay Govindarajan, or “VG”. The framework for successfully managing innovation is simple, yet powerful, and it’s called the 3 Box Solution.

1. STRATEGY IS INNOVATION:
HOW THE LEADERS OF TOMORROW
CREATE THE FUTURE
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2. Companies large and small are seeking non-linear
growth and hence driving innovation has become
a priority. Yet, many companies struggle to bring
their big ideas to life.
This is because the real innovation challenge lies
beyond just the idea, in the long journey from
imagination to business impact.
In this course, participants understand how to
manage the competing demands of running
today’s business while creating tomorrow’s.
This course is developed by one of the world’s
leading authorities on innovation, professor
Vijay Govindarajan, or “VG”. The framework for
successfully managing innovation is simple, yet
powerful, and it’s called the 3 Box Solution.
OVERVIEW
In particular, the course is designed to allow participants to gain knowledge, insight, and
analytical skills and apply the 3-Box Framework for Leading Innovation, which includes:
2) Selectively Forgetting
the Past
1) Managing the Present:
Core Competencies
Concept of Business
Model
Dominant Logic
3) Creating the Future:
Strategic Intent
Next Practices
Innovation Execution
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3. 6
Discussions
11
Real World
Applications
2
Case
Studies
43
Interactive
Lectures
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
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4. SYLLABUS
MODULE 1 - Strategy is Innovation
Framework
Introduction to 3-Box Framework
Good Examples of 3-Box Thinking
Bad Examples of 3-Box Thinking
Strategic Balance and Examples
Application
3-Box Time Allocation to Your Company
Evaluate Box 2 and 3 Frameworks for Your Company and Industry
MODULE 2 - Strategic Intent and Core Competencies
Pre-Work
Watch: Apollo 13 movie
Framework
Strategy Architecture and Strategic Intent
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5. 04
Strategic Intent – Apollo Program and Marathon Race
Core Competencies and Honda Example
Application
Create and Evaluate Your Company’s Statement of Strategic Intent
Evaluate Your Company’s Core Competencies
MODULE 3 - Ideation
Framework
Reverse Innovation – Introduction
Example of Reverse Innovation –GE Healthcare, Narayana Hridayalaya,
Artificial Leg, $300 House
How to Select Box 3 Ideas
How to Scope Each Idea
Application
Generating Box 3 Ideas – Non-Linear Shifts and Weak Signals
Selection of Box 3 Ideas
Scoping out Selected Ideas
Box 3 Idea’s Potential in New Markets
Modifications to Serve New Markets

6. MODULE 4 - Innovation Execution
Framework
Understanding Innovation Execution and Challenges
Overcoming the 6 Innovation Challenges
Critical Assumptions
Designing Innovation Experiments
Avoiding Common Errors
Application
Applying the 6 Challenges Framework to Your Innovation Idea
Identifying Critical Assumptions
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7. BENEFITS TO
THE LEARNER
Intellectual Capital
Global IVY Education
Rigorous and experiential curriculum
World-renowned faculty
Globally connected classroom:
peer to peer learning
Action learning: learn by doing
Social Capital
Build new networks through peer
interaction
Benefit from diverse class profiles
Brand Capital
Certificate from EMERITUS in collaboration
with Tuck School of Business At Dartmouth
Career Capital
Professional acceleration through
our enriched leadership toolkit
Learn while you earn
Get noticed. Get ahead.
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8. Upon successful completion of the program, participants will be awarded a certificate
by EMERITUS Institute of Management, in collaboration with Tuck Executive Education
at Dartmouth.
CERTIFICATE
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9. DURATION AND
COURSE FEE
FACULTY
FEES $1,400 USD
2 Months
*Course fee is exclusive of GST applicable to
Singapore residents
Vijay Govindarajan
Coxe Distinguished Professor
of Management
Vijay Govindarajan, known as VG, is the Coxe
Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck
School of Business and a Marvin Bower Fellow at
Harvard Business School. VG, a New York Times
and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, is an
expert on strategy and innovation. He was the
first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation
Consultant at General Electric. The Thinkers50
management awards that identify outstanding
global thought leaders has consistently named
VG as one of their top thinkers, and chose him
as the winner of the 2011 Breakthrough Idea
Award for his $300 house concept.
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10. TUCK SCHOOL
OF BUSINESS AT
DARTMOUTH
Reputed with having one of the most selective
MBA programs in the world, Tuck ranks #2 for
the Best Full-time MBA programs. Graduates
from the school rank high as leaders in their
domain, with over 70 percent achieving
management positions in their chosen fields.
With approx. 9,750 (living) alumni residing in
about 65 countries, it ranks #1 Most Useful
Network among MBA programs.
Dartmouth College, a member of the Ivy League,
has been one of the world’s great educational
institutions since its establishment in 1769.
The Tuck School of Business, one of the three
professional schools of Dartmouth College, was
founded in 1900 as the world’s first graduate
school of management.
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