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Strategy  >  Driving Organic Top-Line Growth

Driving Organic Top-Line Growth

Related Programs
  Creating a Culture of Innovation
  The Market Focused Organization: Creating and Delivering the Customer Experience
 

Upcoming Sessions
  December 1-4, 2009
$ 5,500
Expanded to include a 4th day
in 2010
  May 10-14, 2010
$ 7,400
  November 14-18, 2010
$ 7,400
 
Key Benefits
During this program, you will learn to:
Understand the potential pitfalls in growth and how to overcome them by using a market-proven process for driving organic growth
Create innovative business designs for initiatives
Proactively manage business risk in innovation and growth
Benchmark your company’s potential to innovate
Overcome obstacles and organizational inertia that hinder growth initiatives
Managing the growth portfolio

“At last, a practical approach to growing innovation cultures within our organizations! Real tools coupled with keen insights presented by world-class practitioners. This is a high-water mark in executive education!”

Director of Strategic Planning, Raytheon

Academic Director Victoria Medvec
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Program Content

The Challenges of Organic Growth
Manage the challenges in driving organic growth
Create an innovation portfolio

Market Driven Framework 
Drive repeatable growth initiatives using the market tested, Market Driven Growth Process

Leadership Decision Making
Critical aspects of decision making in driving organic growth

Innovation Radar
Understand the full landscape of growth opportunities

I3 Business Design Innovation Growth
Create innovative business designs
Gain customer insights
Develop winning value propositions
Deliver and capture value

Managing a Portfolio for Growth
Make the tough portfolio decisions to match your resource allocations to your corporate goals

Business Risk Management
Manage and mitigate business risk in innovation

Driving Growth
Put the growth process into action at your company

Pedagogical Methods

The program will use a combination of lectures, case studies, action learning exercises, and the Growth Initiative Journal - an innovative tool for capturing and contextualizing the learning to each participant’s specific business issues.

Key Highlight

To personalize the experience, participants will be required to bring to the program an in-depth knowledge of a high-priority growth initiative at their company. As they progress through the program, participants will prepare their own Growth Initiative Journal to begin applying the concepts presented in the program. The journals will be critiqued by the faculty during and after the program.

   
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