The October 2020 session will now take place over three days -- October 15, 16, and 19 -- in a live online format. Scheduled times to be announced soon. Please view the "October 2020 Offering" tab for a additional information on this virtual session.
Why has implementing enterprise-wide transformation proven to be troubling? When challenges persist, it is often because there are embedded tensions or paradoxes that surface and seem unresolvable. This research-driven and practitioner-led program is designed to help senior executives avert failure, create cultures of agility and resiliency, and develop a customized blueprint for large-scale transformation in their organization.
Implementing Enterprise-Wide Transformation
Certificate Track:
Strategy and Innovation
Location:
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Tuition:
$4,300 (excluding accommodations)
Program Days (for ACE Credit) 2
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We know through research and practice that two thirds of enterprise-wide transformation efforts fail to meet their intended objectives. Why? In today’s world, disruption can emerge from any place, any time and in ways unexpected. Leaders often ignore or miss the early warning signals, due to a variety of factors, including cultural inertia, lack of disciplined scanning and decision making processes, and siloed behavior that tends to discount troubling signs that impact other parts of the organization. When unit leaders turn inward to protect their entities, organizational agility becomes that much harder to achieve.
But effective leaders and their teams can beat the odds that their organizations’ transformation efforts will fail. How? They set proactive agendas that create an inspiring future for employees. They build trust-based cultures of openness and transparency, combined with the discipline to spot and solve significant problems collectively as a team. They align the “messaging” of their agendas with the metrics, milestones, and rewards that provide a clear line-of-sight for employees to understand how they can contribute and what behaviors are valued in their organizations.
During this two-day program, you will learn to spot potential derailers that prevent successful transformations; more importantly, you’ll learn how to become a successful transformation leader in your organization. Research based and practitioner led, the program environment is designed to help executives create a blueprint for their organization’s near- and longer-term transformation. Guest speakers will help to further demonstrate important conceptual examples, and significant time will be designated for peer collaboration and plan development.
This program is intended to help you:
The October course will be presented entirely online in a collaborative digital format.
Our faculty, lecturers, guest speakers and staff are busy preparing for an engaging and interactive learning experience designed for our new live online format in Zoom. Our faculty will be sharing presentation slides and utilizing platform tools such as breakouts and polls. We know you value time to connect with your peers, so we plan to facilitate participant introductions, encourage small group work, and give you the opportunity to ask questions throughout your time with us. You will also notice an increased number of breaks to allow for stretching and time away from your screen.
To prepare for your course in Zoom, we recommend a strong internet connection and a web camera. Please make sure to test your system using https://zoom.us/test prior to your program. For the best experience, we suggest connecting via laptop/desktop and only dialing in via phone as a back-up. This will ensure that you are able to fully view the materials and participate in group activities.
As you attend your live online sessions with faculty and other learners, we want you to get as much as possible from the experience. By turning on your webcam when you’re listening to the lesson, participating in breakout rooms, or working together on exercises and activities, you’ll help make the experience more engaging for yourself, your co-learners, and the faculty team. With your help we can make teaching and learning together online an engaging and immersive experience. We look forward to ‘seeing’ and ‘hearing’ from each of you in the course.
Attendance throughout the course is required in order to complete the course and earn any certificate(s).
Please note that this live online course will be credited as an “in-person” program for purposes of an Executive Certificate and the Advanced Certificate for Executives.
Sample Schedule—Subject to Change
| DAY 1 SAMPLE | |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM - 12:15 PM | A Framework for Effective Enterprise Wide Transformations; Lessons from the Field: 30 Years of Transformation |
| 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM | Networking Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM | When Culture Change is at the Heart of Your Transformation Journey |
| 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Mobilizing Your Organization |
| 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Reflection & Dialogue |
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Networking Reception |
| DAY 2 SAMPLE | |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM | The Role of Networks in Implementing Enterprise Wide Transformation |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Networking Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 1:40 PM | MIT Sloan Executive Certificate distribution |
| 1:40 PM - 3:10 PM | Implementing Transformations – Whose job is it anyway? The Board, The CEO, The Top Leadership Team, HR’s Role, Line Champions |
| 3:25 PM - 4:30 PM | Developing Your Next Generation of Transformation Leaders |
| 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Summary Reflection and Action Planning |
| 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Adjourn |
This program is designed for senior executives who are currently engaged in or want to better understand enterprise-wide transformation. Ideal participants include:
Roberto M. Fernandez is the William F. Pounds Professor in Management and a Professor of Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Fernandez currently serves as the co-director of the Economic Sociology PhD Program and served as the head of the Behavioral and Policy Sciences area from 2008-2010. His research focuses on the areas of organizations, social networks, and race and gender stratification. Fernandez has extensive experience doing field research in organizations, including an exhaustive five-year case study of a plant retooling and relocation. His current research focuses on the organizational processes surrounding the hiring of new talent using data collected in 14 organizations. He is the author of more than 50 articles and research papers published in top academic journals in his field.
Fernandez holds a BA in sociology from Harvard University and an MA and a PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago.
Doug Ready is Senior Lecturer in Organization Effectiveness at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
His research into aligning purpose, performance, and principles has led to the popular concept of implementing a company's Collective Ambition. Ready's research and writing also focuses on strategic talent management and enterprise-wide change. He has authored numerous highly popular Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review articles on these topics, including “The Power of Collective Ambition", “Make Your Company a Talent Factory", and “Leading at the Enterprise Level,” among others.
Ready is also the founder and president of the International Consortium for Executive Development Research (ICEDR), an internationally renowned collaborative in talent management and leadership development comprised of many of the world's leading companies and business schools. Ready works with top management teams, helping them to mobilize their leaders to bring about large-scale change. He has led major change and leadership development initiatives for companies including: Continental AG, Ford Motor Company, Four Seasons, Hess Oil, HSBC, LG Group, PwC, Royal Bank of Canada, Samsung Group, and United Technologies Corporation.
Guest speakers for the upcoming session of this program:
Dr. Leonard D. Lane is a Member of the Board Fung Academy and Advisor to the Group Chairman Li & Fung Limited. Prior to taking up his Board role, Dr. Lane was the Managing Director Fung Academy responsible for overall direction and implementation the Group’s Senior Leadership Development and strategy linked Accelerated Learning Programs including overall responsibility for operationalizing sustainability as a competitive advantage across the Groups worldwide businesses. In this capacity he advised the Group’s businesses on how to take advantage of the exponential increases in technology to improve sustainable production and design as well as well as improve the lives of the 3-4 million people that work across the Group’s value chain.
Dr. Lane organized the Academy to deliver a unique value proposition linking organizational and people development processes with a platform of innovation and experimentation focused on convening, trying and incubating action learning across the Group. Dr. Lane also advises the Group Chairman Li & Fung Ltd. on the opportunities to utilize emerging platform driven business models to achieve a competitive edge in rapidly changing markets.
Dr. Lane joined the Group after a distinguished consulting and line management career helping clients build global competitive strategies. Prior to joining the Fung Group in 2008 Dr. Lane ran his own consulting firms; LL Strategic Development Group in Seattle, Washington where he served airlines, global energy and resource development clients and LLA Pacific, Ltd. In Hong Kong where he worked with Li & Fung, DHL, Hong Kong Bank, V-Tech, Caltex, the Airport Authority, Peninsula Hotel Group, China Light and Power and helped with the formation of the Hong Kong Logistics Council.
Dr. Lane also is a Senior Lecturer in Strategy at the University of California, Irvine where he teaches Competitive Strategy, Competitive Intelligence, Sustainability as a Competitive Advantage and Global Business. He is also a guest lecturer at Tel Aviv University.
Mykel Ziolo is currently a Senior Fellow with The International Consortium for Executive Development Research and was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Hess Corporation, a global energy company based in New York City.
Ziolo has lived and worked in Europe, South America, West Africa, Asia, Australia, the United States and Canada over a 30-year career in Human Resources.
He has worked in the Education, Community Development, Mining, Minerals, Oil & Gas, Retail and Power Generation sectors.
He joined Hess in January 2002 as Global Head and Vice President, Human Resources – Worldwide Exploration & Production. He was promoted to Senior Vice President Organization Development & Strategic Staffing in 2007 and was appointed Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer in 2009.
Previously, he spent two years as the Global Director of Human Resources for InterGen, a developer of green field power plants around the world.
Prior to that, he spent 15 years with BHP Billiton, the largest natural resources company in the world, where he held increasingly responsible leadership positions in employee relations, strategic staffing, organization development, international practices and compensation and benefits. He served as Vice President, Human Resources for the company’s copper business in South America and its Petroleum unit in Europe, Russia, Africa, the Middle East and West Asia.
Ziolo is recognized as a central, strategic partner to both the Board and CEO. He is seen as having the ability to both create vision and execute to delivery. Trust, integrity and a strong team player, are all qualities universally recognized as part of his DNA. He has the ability to ask the tough questions and is known for his constructive candor. He is an independent thinker, with a deep understanding of the business, always prepared to take a stance for what’s best for the Corporation. Ziolo holds a bachelor’s degree in Applied Science Electronics from Melbourne University and post-graduate degrees in Education from Monash University and Business from Charles Sturt University.
Alisa B: Great overview of a business transformation framework and application on several case studies. The faculty and staff facilitated thoughtful dialogue on the subject and addressed many questions that applied to specific participant situations as well as across industry context.
Tommy D: Experienced teachers, motivated peers and a highly current topics.
Mark D: Very helpful understanding the 5M process to articulating and achieving sustainable business change within an organization at all levels.
Michael D: The Contents were too Abstract for me to really to be able to take Action back home. It was not wrong or boring, I just felt that - at least in parts - the Program lacked some sort of structure and did not convey the amount of concrete methods, tools or Frameworks to work with I expected.
Theodore C: It is a challenge in a two-day course to cover much content. I understand that this offers the student flexibility to complete two courses in a single week, but there are trade-offs. There must be a careful balance among pre-reading, lecture, class discussion and post work, and this course fell short, in my opinion. Much material in class was skipped due to lack of time, although the students have the readings and the presentations for reference. There was not enough class discussion on the concepts taught, and, in the case of "whose role is transformation," it was entirely class discussion without any taught content. I found the introduction of the 5M's change management model completely unnecessary - there is already a well-understood model in use in most businesses and this took up a lot of time. The most enjoyable part of the course was the section on the role of networking in transformation, but it took up 25% of the class time. Valuable, but seemingly out of proportion to the overall concept of a class on Implementing Enterprise-Wide Change. The experience was valuable enough that I will be back for more.
Almerinda M: Engaging instructors and valuable content
Nicola J: A thought provoking course with information that is very relevant to the success of our future growth.
Dale P: We are in the process of Enterprise Wide transformation having changed our business model 5 years ago and now at the point of developing new capabilities. The content will be used with our team to provide a better roadmap for our organization.
Roman S: The course and its content is very well structured and authentic, primarily because of the decades of experience by the lecturers. You can take best advantage of this course when you prepare a couple of topics in advance: what is your companies mission/vision. What is its culture and where do you think does it struggle. By formulating these questions, you will receive very profound insights.
Mark A: This program provided me with great insights and frameworks to help assist in implementing business transformation. I felt if the the class had been a little smaller it would of assisted with more interaction and peer learning.
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