Online Course

Strategy Powered by Innovation

Executive education course, designed to help leaders and senior managers advance strategic goals and unlock organizational potential through innovation.

Who should join?

Senior executives and other leaders within large or small organizations who are interested in finding new ways to improve their business impact. Senior managers with an official innovation role in their organization will also find this program exceptionally beneficial.

Our world-class faculty, from SIT and Columbia University Business School, joined by strategy and marketing experts, brings to this course years of academic research combined with field experience helping leaders across thousands of organizations in 75 countries drive their companies to success.

Why choose this course?

Practical tools:

Adopt an innovative “inside the box” mindset, alongside a practical toolset from the Systematic Inventive Thinking® approach – a unique, research-based methodology designed to provoke novel thinking and manage the organizational change needed for its implementation.

Get it from the source:

This is the only course available through with you can learn the Systematic Inventive Thinking® method directly from those who developed it 28 years ago and have been delivering it ever since in thousands of projects across every imaginable sector.

Live workshop:

It is not a pre-recorded classroom; it’s live and it’s interactive. This delivery style and the dialogue that it promotes, keeps you engaged both with the faculty and with your peers, creating a true cohort with long-term networking potential.

The experience

The course’s modularity caters to all learning styles and enhances its impact in the context of your busy schedule. Four 90-minute remote workshops explore different areas in which innovation tools can advance your strategic goals. Two individual learning modules have you collaborate with one of our mentors and further develop your skillset at your own pace, helping you transition your new skills to your own role and specific organizational context.

Our approach will help you to adopt and “inside the box” mindset to innovation and problem solving by using your current resources, as a strategic starting point to deliver superior customer value and solve some of your toughest problems.

Participants from previous cohorts had this to say:

“Many times when you come to a problem or question you can be limited in developing solutions from past knowledge and prior constraints. The tools shared in the SIT Innovation Strategies course were extremely beneficial to help you reframe your problem or question to better realize possible solutions that you otherwise wouldn’t have even considered. This could then lead to increased value or critical differentiation for your product or process.”

"The SIT course was highly engaging and provides a very practical framework. I felt ready to employ the new tools at my organization immediately."

“I found the concepts useful. We only look at one aspect of our strategic questions, but these concepts help us challenge that. The format was very good and effective: Use of media was good. Delivery was good. Breakout rooms were good. In general, the short course was quite effective.”

"I really enjoyed the online SIT Exec Ed course, which allowed me to put some of the principles of creative constraints and innovation into action. By working with the SIT faculty as well as peers, SIT came to life in a new, more meaningful way that was really valuable."