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Important Notice

• ● Material Language: English; Delivery Language: Japanese; Participants are asked to read English instructions before exercises.
• ● Live online seminar is delivered using Zoom.

How You Will Benefit

• ● Develop and apply a curious, “what if” mindset—the ability to think “futuristically”
• ● Be ready to embrace and implement rapid changes
• ● Identify and respond to both threats and opportunities for disruption
• ● Understand and assess disruption from the point of view of those being disrupted
• ● Develop inner courage and willingness to face disruption
• ● Acquire strategies to overcome organizational stagnation
• ● Enable a consistent flow of ideas into the innovation pipeline
• ● Lead your organization to positive change

Who Should Attend

• Senior managers in all industries who are responsible for choosing and implementing an organizational and divisional strategy that will produce optimal results.

Course Outline

1. Introduction to Disruption
 - Define Disruption as Viewed in Today’s Business World
 - Recognize What Makes an Organization Ripe for Disruption
 - Understand the Forces Influencing and Leading to Disruption
2. Agility
 - Define and Appreciate the Value of Agility in the Face of Disruption
 - Recognize New Value Drivers That Will Lead to Success
 - Spot Barriers to Companies Taking Actions in the Face of Disruption
3. Scan Trends
 - Take a Comprehensive Study of Where Disruption Might Be Coming to Your Industry and Market from the More Encompassing Environment
 - Identify Potential Innovations and Technological Advances That Are Likely to Change the Way Your Business Will Work in the Future
 - Anticipate New Desires of Customers and Potential Competitive Developments That Could Disrupt Your Work
4. Build as You Go
 - Move Beyond SWOT in Order to SOAR
 - Envision What the Future of the Company Could Be
 - Establish a Path to Grow
 - Anticipate New Business Models and Partners Needed to Achieve Successful Disruption
5. Practice Case Study
 - Practice and Refine Your Ability to Apply Environmental Scanning Skills to a Particular Situation
 - Design a Disruptive Move Within an Established Organization and Test Your Ideas in Real Time
 - Establish the Initial Steps for Organizing and Implementing the Disruptive Move
6. Agile Response
 - Identify the Characteristics of Adaptable Organizations
 - Recognize the Difference of Managing Disruption from Inside an Incumbent Versus Creating a Spin-Off Organization
 - Identify the Skills and Experiences of Managers That Are Valuable When Taking on a Disruptive Target
 - Identify Critical Management Structures That Support Achieving Disruption
7. Leadership Courage
 - Evaluate Your Own Current Capacity to Lead Within a Disruptive Environment
 - Access New and Existing Behaviors That Support Disruptive Innovation
8. My Action Plan
 - Identify the Areas of Your Learning That You Wish to Put into Practice
 - Put Your Learning into Action with Concrete Steps That Will Bring Awareness of Disruptive Change into Your Organization
 - Continue to Apply the Principles You’ve Gained in This Class and Bring These to Your Company

Prerequisite / Pre-Assignment

English reading skills are required.