SIT’s newest remote Executive Education course
Innovative strategies
in the face of constraints
Leaders must be even more agile, flexible and inventive in times of uncertainty and when their maneuverability seems to become restricted due to a slew of organizational and environmental limitations. Innovative strategies in the face of constraints is our newest Executive and Corporate Education course, helping senior leaders discover assets and resources that they can leverage, but are oft overlooked, when charting the path forward. This course, delivered in a 100% remote format, provides a structured method and toolset to comprehensively map your resources and assets, and inventively put them to their full use.
With all the focus around customer-centricity and technology-driven mindsets, organizations have lost their ability to be introspective, understanding how they can use their internal resources more flexibly. Truth is, using your current resources as a strategic starting point will help you not only deliver superior customer value, but also solve some of your toughest problems.
Join our world-class faculty from SIT and Columbia University Business School for this Executive Education course designed to combine revolutionary academic research with 25 years’ practical expertise of helping leaders in thousands of organizations in more than 75 countries organically drive their companies to success.
SIT – Systematic Inventive Thinking® is a premier global innovation consultancy, headquartered in Tel Aviv. Over 25 years and 75countries, our clients report more than $25B of YOY value generated from our work. Our research-based method, delivered by our world-class experts, help leaders design their innovation strategies and deploy them across their organizations to ensure that innovation is consistently used as a tool to achieve their business goals and surpass their targets.
Where We Teach
Outcomes
In these unique times, more than ever, a disciplined approach to using existing resources in surprising ways is a skillset that can determine whether a company will come out stronger (or at all), in the COVID aftermath. Through this course you will:
Learn how to create an inventory of your resources, without overlooking those that one would normally miss due to cognitive biases
Develop a mindset, and learn a specific working tool, for identifying how an asset meant for one purpose can becomes a resource for another
Gain confidence in your new skillset, having practiced both on a real use case and on a topic of your own
Create a support system through your cohort peers and your personal expert mentor
Overcome the tendency to tackle tough problems through “compromise and optimize”, as you learn a new strategy to solve seeming contradictions
Syllabus
We know you are busy, so we will keep this short and flexible. Your investment will be 10 HOURS within a timespan of 10 DAYS. All sessions are remote. Half of this time you will be able to schedule at your convenience.
module 1
Setup and orientation
- Provide you with additional details about the course and your cohort
- Invite you to ask any questions that you may still have about the course or to find a solution for a specific challenge that you may have regarding your participation in one of the modules
- Schedule a quick “tech check” to connect you to the system; just to make sure that you don’t have trouble joining to ensure that the first module can begin on-time without having to wait for any colleague who may be experiencing technical difficulties
module 1
Innovation isn’t what you thought it was
- Defining “innovation”
- Why is a systematic and disciplined approach important? Isn’t creativity all about chaos?
- Three principles of Systematic Inventive Thinking and how they combine to make sure that you are using existing resources to find breakthrough solutions
- Cognitive fixedness: how it blinds us to solutions that were there all along and how do we overcome it
module 3
Innovate with what you have
- Thinking inside the box: The Closed World condition and why it leads to more successful and impactful innovative
solutions - Learn to define (and design) your Closed World
- Introduction to a systematic tool for
generating new ideas and solutions from your Closed World
module 4
self-paced online videos and exercises
- Q&A from the self-paced learning
- From thinking tool to work process: the Function Follows Form Flow (FFFF)
- Use case: practice using the tool to find new solutions
- Prepare your own business topic for our personal mentoring session
module 5
Individual activity
30-60 min
- Identify your relevant business topic or challenge
- Apply the thinking tools you have learned, to generate ideas, insights and questions
- Prepare for your one-on-one mentoring meeting
module 6
One-on-one mentoring
30 min
- With an expert, work through a topic from your business life, using the skills that you have acquired to this point
- Discuss your upcoming steps
module 7
Transition your new skillset back to your work environment
90 min
- Uncover the hidden assumptions behind the problem
- Overcome business contradictions without compromise; Rather than optimizing the tradeoff, learn to resolve the contradiction to achieve an ideal solution to the business or technical challenge
- How and where to find opportunities to use your new skills back at work
module 8
Offboarding
30 min – ∞
- Feedback and recommendations
- Use your new skillset to tackle your business challenges
- Let’s keep in touch. We are always happy to stay connected and add people to our innovation communities.
Faculty
Prof. Jacob Goldenberg
Prof. Jacob Goldenberg splits his time as Professor of Marketing at Columbia Business School in New York and at the Arison School of Business Administration at the Inter-Disciplinary Center at Hertzelia. Prof. Goldenberg received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in a joint program of the School of Business Administration and Racach Institute of Physics. His research focuses on creativity, diffusion of innovation, complexity in market dynamics and social networks effects. He is an Academic Trustee of the Marketing Science Institute. Jacob was the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Research in Marketing and now is an area editor for Journal of Marketing Research and Journal of Marketing and serves on the editorial board of Marketing Science. He has published papers in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, JPSP, Management Science, Marketing Science, Nature Physics, and Science.
In addition, he is the author of two books by Cambridge University Press and one by Simon & Schuster. His scientific work had been covered by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, BBC News, and International Herald Tribune.
Yael Manor
Yael specializes in creating large scale innovation programs for multinational organizations. Her corporate training programs, into which she weaves the needed company architecture to support innovation, has won internationally-recognized awards for effectiveness. One of the keys to her programs’ success rate is the correct balance – in design and delivery – between remote and onsite sessions; group dynamics and individual tasks; and customized vs generic support materials.
Yael’s experience with innovation spans two decades. She started with SIT in 2002, took a short hiatus to learn and then practice law, and rejoined us in 2016. After passing the bar, Yael worked at top-tier Tel Aviv firms as a legal consultant for both public and private sectors. Her clients inevitably receive unanticipated value as she brings her strengths as “Renaissance Woman” to every opportunity. Yael holds an MBA (Cum Laude) majoring in Management and Business Psychology, an LLB, and a BA in Psychology.
Erez Tsalik
Erez is a sought-after keynote speaker, frequently invited to share his profound experience in innovation and creativity in conferences world-wide, including TEDx and TED India. You can also find him guest lecturing in graduate and undergraduate programs on virtually any continent, from Columbia University, to London Business School, to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Singapore Institute of Management, MET India, Tel Aviv University…
Before joining SIT 15 years ago, Erez spent 10 years in the field of IT as Systems Manager and then CIO. In parallel, he works as an academic consultant with a rich background in education, specifically the development and production of educational workshops and seminars.
You may have some questions. Here are some (and their answers).
Can’t find the answer you are looking for? Email us: ExecEd@sitsite.com
This course is part of our executives’ programs and is open for mangers (typically D-Level and up) from leading organizations around the world. We expect that meeting new, like-minded people, sharing a passion to innovate in what they do will be valuable and enjoyable that will enhance your learning (and business network).
This specific offering is designed having executives’ characters and needs in mind, infusing SIT’s unique approach to business practices and challenges on a managerial level. If you are working in a corporate or corporate-like organization, this will most likely be a D-Level and up position; in other structures this will mean that you have the mandate to manage people, medium and large scale projects or cross-functional initiatives and that you share budget responsibility. As we see peer learning as an opportunity to boost your individual learning (as well as networking) we will do our best to make sure we have a group of people to echo this approach. If you are not sure this is a good fit for any reason – let’s discuss this together and figure things out.
Happy to have an opportunity to meet again! This is a new and unique course we have designed to help managers to enrich their education, so it is not likely that you will be wasting your time reiterating things you already know. One of our leading facilitators will be happy to hop on a call with you to review the syllabus and make sure this course will enrich your toolbox.
Group session are held live, so please make sure you have your computer connected to Wi-Fi, your microphone and webcam on. From time to time we will be suggesting that you take a note to yourself and capture thought, ideas and questions, so having a notebook and something to write with be very useful.
Definitely. It will also be useful in taking some additional innovation steps forward after you finish the course. If you are interested in bringing this course to your executive team // leadership team, we will be happy to discuss this with; this will allow creating a customized model designed just for you.
English will be used as the main language in group-session as well as course materials; our team will be happy to support you in your one-on-one meeting in English, Spanish, Hebrew and some other useful languages in case it is needed.
We know that sometimes things happen, and we have to change our plans. We are very experienced in finding relevant solutions to bring people up to speed and back with their original group, just let us know wat is going on and we will find a way to make it work.
If you have to cancel your participation for any reason at all 14 days or more before course begins (before the first live sessions) we will refund your payment. Holding most session live dictates limiting the number of participants in each cohort so we cannot refund for last minute cancellations. As you may know by now, we are professional problem-solvers – we are sure we will be able to make things work for you.
Upon completing the course, you will receive your SIT executive user course via email. The format will allow you to download your certificate as a PDF and upload it to LinkedIn to share with the world!
We will be updating this page once we schedule the next cohort so stay tuned. If you have any specific request – feel free to let us know.
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