Course Highlights

• Gain insights from two powerhouse institutions, MIT Sloan and IMD
• Apply powerful frameworks for organizational transformation across multiple dimensions—from customer-centricity and business model innovation to ecosystem collaboration and strategic agility in complex environments
• Understand how organizations and teams can embrace innovation while maintaining operational strength and adaptability
• Learn how to navigate complexity with confidence, leveraging actionable strategies from front-line experts on managing AI integration, geopolitical volatility, and emerging global challenges
• Participate in immersive site visits, including MIT’s innovation ecosystem and Asia’s leading organizations, to witness future-ready strategies in action.
• Earn an MIT Sloan Executive Certificate in Strategy & Innovation

Why attend the Future-Ready Enterprise Academy?

The Future-Ready Enterprise Academy is an immersive learning experience that equips senior executives with the strategies, frameworks, and insights needed to design and execute business strategy, navigate uncertainty, and lead their organizations with agility. Offered jointly by MIT Sloan Executive Education and IMD in Singapore, this program leverages expertise from two world-renowned institutions to help leaders prepare for and thrive in an unpredictable business environment. 

This deep dive course will be delivered in two parts—one week at MIT in October and a second week at IMD in February. The core of this program is focused on mastering the essential leadership paradox: delivering exceptional results today while strategically transforming for tomorrow—the defining capability for leaders driving sustainable growth in uncertain times.
During the course, you will explore cutting-edge frameworks to help your organization thrive in a digitized universe, balance strategic risk, and seize emerging opportunities. Through a combination of theory, cases, exercises, and self-reflection, you will learn how to architect and lead a nimble company by freeing people to innovate while maintaining strategic alignment and accountability—without imposing bureaucracy.

You will also engage with dynamic innovation ecosystems firsthand—exploring Boston’s Kendall Square and key innovation hubs in Asia—to gain insights into how leading organizations navigate technological disruption, geopolitical shifts, and evolving customer expectations. You and your global peers will leave this course equipped with practical tools for embedding innovation within your organization’s culture, scaling new ideas across teams, and enhancing collaboration within ecosystems. Throughout the course, you will develop a personalized future-readiness roadmap—a concrete plan to implement these insights effectively.
 

Course Experience

Throughout the Future-Ready Enterprise Academy, you will explore a robust set of frameworks, case studies, and immersive experiences, including:

Week/Module 1: Boston (October)

• Identifying and acquiring new capabilities: Learn how to uncover organizational blind spots and proactively build new competencies for sustained success.
• Cultivating nimble organizations: Discover how distributed leadership empowers agility and responsiveness.
• The four pathways to capturing digital value: Identify key strategies for successful digital transformation.
• Developing your leadership signature: Explore leadership archetypes and how to shape your influence as a future-ready leader.
• Enhancing customer and employee experiences in the AI era: Gain strategies for integrating data-driven decisions with human-centric design.
• FutureTech and AI’s impact on workforce dynamics: Understand how AI can enhance human productivity and redefine roles.

Week/Module 2: Singapore (February)

• The Singapore economic miracle and US-China rivalry: Examine how Singapore’s economic strategy offers insights into thriving in complex global markets.
• Agile organization in action: Learn from DBS Bank’s transformation into a world-leading digital bank.
• Democratizing expertise across the enterprise: Discover strategies for breaking down knowledge silos and fostering cross-team innovation.
• Simplifying coordination and cutting through bureaucracy: Master techniques for using microservices and APIs to scale capabilities efficiently.
• Developing a strategic mindset for continuous innovation: Gain practical tools to foster experimentation, test ideas, and manage risk.
• Accelerating growth by empowering others: Learn how to build an “ecosystem flywheel” that drives sustainable competitive advantage.

Course Experience

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Applying to the Course

We accept enrollments until the offering reaches capacity at which point, we will maintain a waitlist. Many of the courses fill up several weeks in advance, so we advise that you enroll as early as possible to secure your seat.

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