Key Takeaways
In this 6-week program, you will have the opportunity to:
- Prepare your organization to adapt to change before disruption occurs.
- Identify opportunities for growth within your organization.
- Recognize potential threats to your industry and organization.
- Create a community that fosters innovation, creativity, and productivity.
- Develop uses for AI based on its impact on business and the economy.
- Understand the consequences of climate change for business profitability and brand equity.
Who Should Join This Program?
Business Leadership in the Age of Disruption Program from Kellogg Executive Education at Northwestern University will help senior leaders, functional managers, entrepreneurs, and consultants in any industry learn to help navigate their organizations and clients through uncertain times with creativity, flexibility, and innovation.
This program will be particularly valuable for those who are looking to develop a strategic framework for assessing organizational risk, prepare a strategy to harness business threats and opportunities, and leverage innovation for growth.
Program Curriculum
Over the course of six weeks, this program will guide you in creating an actionable business strategy you can use to lead your organization through any type of disruption, known or unknown. Each week builds on the previous one, giving you the opportunity to create a comprehensive plan to foster resiliency and growth in an unpredictable business environment.
Module 1:
Disruption in the Workforce
Understand how globalization has changed the world’s economy and identify potential workforce disruptions so you can develop a plan to protect your organization.
Module 2:
The Polarization of Consumer Demand
Explore consumer behavior and discover how insights can be used to design a strategy that helps your organization thwart disruption. Then, dive into the segmentation of value versus luxury, emerging markets, and new pathways to growth.
Module 3:
The Second Wave of Globalization: Digital Platforms and Direct to Consumer
Survey the second wave of globalization and the effects and growth opportunities of digitization and disintermediation.
Module 4:
Remote Work — Opportunities and Impacts
Examine the potential for remote work to impact productivity, creativity, innovation, and management.
Module 5:
Artificial Intelligence Disruptions
AI can be a useful tool, but it can also be a source of disruption. Learn the history of AI, its traditional applications, and how, with supervision, it can be leveraged to solve business problems.
Module 6:
Climate Change
The effects of climate change are far-reaching. Learn about the scope of the climate crisis, and its potential impact on industry and the global economy.
Module 1:
Disruption in the Workforce
Understand how globalization has changed the world’s economy and identify potential workforce disruptions so you can develop a plan to protect your organization.
Module 4:
Remote Work — Opportunities and Impacts
Examine the potential for remote work to impact productivity, creativity, innovation, and management.
Module 2:
The Polarization of Consumer Demand
Explore consumer behavior and discover how insights can be used to design a strategy that helps your organization thwart disruption. Then, dive into the segmentation of value versus luxury, emerging markets, and new pathways to growth.
Module 5:
Artificial Intelligence Disruptions
AI can be a useful tool, but it can also be a source of disruption. Learn the history of AI, its traditional applications, and how, with supervision, it can be leveraged to solve business problems.
Module 3:
The Second Wave of Globalization: Digital Platforms and Direct to Consumer
Survey the second wave of globalization and the effects and growth opportunities of digitization and disintermediation.
Module 6:
Climate Change
The effects of climate change are far-reaching. Learn about the scope of the climate crisis, and its potential impact on industry and the global economy.
Real-World Situations
There is no better way to learn than to apply your knowledge and skills. This program offers a number of opportunities to reinforce core concepts by simulating real-world situations.
Navigating value versus luxury: Evaluate your organization's position between value and luxury, and determine whether moving in a new direction would be beneficial.
Innovative hiring: Identify opportunities to hire workers displaced from other industries.
The paradox of choice: Should your organization slim down and focus on what it is good at, or should it expand into new opportunities?
New ways of working: Compare the pros and cons of remote work.
Leveraging AI: Identify uses for AI in your organization.
Guest Contributors
No industry is immune from the effects of disruption. Benefit from the knowledge of three thought leaders, all hailing from different industries, and their unique experience navigating disruption. Whether you are a CXO, senior or functional leader, entrepreneur, or consultant, you will come away with pivotal insights you can immediately put into practice.
Certificate
Certificate
Upon successful completion of the program, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management grants a verified digital certificate of completion to participants. This program is graded as pass or fail; participants must receive 80% to pass and obtain the certificate of completion.
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Note: This online certificate program does not grant academic credit or a degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. After successful completion of the program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you in the name you used when registering for the program. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
