Overview
Innovate to Disrupt (ITD) is designed for leaders and innovators looking to drive change and create new markets through disruptive innovation. Disruptive innovation is a powerful force that has transformed industries and created new opportunities for growth and success. It involves identifying unmet customer needs, developing new business models, and creating products or services that challenge the status quo and change the game. By the end of the program, participants will have a solid understanding of disruptive innovation and the tools and strategies needed to drive innovation and disruption in their organization. Participants will have the knowledge and skills to identify new opportunities, create new markets, and drive growth and success in today’s rapidly changing business environment.
Learning Objectives and Benefits
Smart, agile upstarts are disrupting established incumbents and their boundaries, creating and scaling new businesses in markets that might not have existed historically. These disruptive innovators are redrawing industry structures and establishing new orders, leveraging technology, great product design, and disruptive business models. In this program, you will learn how to disrupt incumbent industries, and if you are an incumbent, you will learn how to build a disruptive business from within, ensuring that you protect your business from potential disruption.
- Understand the fundamentals of disruptive innovation strategy
- Develop the mindset to identify disruptive innovation opportunities
- Design smart, innovative products and disruptive business models
- Learn how incumbents react to disruptive innovation challenges and the opportunities they present
- Execute your disruptive innovation strategy
- Lead and build ethical, disruptive innovation businesses.
- Drive change externally or internally to support your disruptive innovation strategy
Who should attend
- Large companies, especially in technology-challenged, dynamic environments that seek to sharpen their innovation program and build new revenue streams.
- Startups and young agile companies that seek to challenge traditional incumbents and disrupt their businesses, or create new, scaled markets
Specific Target will include
- Senior Executives and Business Leaders
- Senior Managers leading innovation programs in their organizations
- Founders and senior executives of start-ups
- Senior Product and Innovation Managers
- Investment and Venture Capital firms, Business Analysts, and Mid-level Managers
Structure and Curriculum
- Fundamentals of Disruptive Innovation Strategy
- Disruptive Innovation: How Industry Incumbents Respond to Disruption- Challenges and Opportunities
- Storytelling for Innovation
- Intrapreneurship and Entrepreneurship for Disruptive Innovation
- Bringing Disruptive Innovation Ideas to Life: Introduction to Design Thinking
- Understanding User Needs and Problem Framing
- Disruptive Business Models
- Generating and Validating Innovative Solutions
- Ethical Disruptive Innovation
- Learning and Best Practices in Successful Strategy Execution
- First Principles Thinking and the Innovation
Admission process
Faculty
Olu Akanmu was until recently, President and Co-CEO of OPay-Nigeria, one of Nigeria’s largest fintech platforms with Unicorn valuation. He has an unusual, diverse C-level strategic leadership experience across several industries including healthcare, FMCG, telecommunications, banking, fintech, and non-profit industries with a track record of growing and scaling businesses successfully across these industries.
He was Executive Director of Retail Banking at First City Monument Bank; Chief Marketing Officer at Airtel, Nigeria; Managing Executive of retail Banking at former Bank PHB; General Manager of Consumer Marketing; MTN-Nigeria and Client Service Director- at Insight Communications (West Africa’s largest advertising agency). He was also Chief Operating Officer at the Society for Family Health and Population Services International (Nigeria and South Africa) and Marketing Manager at former Glaxo-Nigeria.
He holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Ife, a Master in Business Administration from Lagos State University, and a Distinction in the Management Advancement Program of the University of Witwatersrand Business School, South Africa. He also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Business Research Methods from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Business School, United Kingdom.
Testimonials
Upcoming Sessions and Contact
Afolabi Oyewuni
07086095794
aoyewunmi@lbs.edu.ng
Oluwakemi Mfon-Bassey
08086726686
omfon-bassey@lbs.edu.ng
Toba Olugosi
07080070553
tolugosi@lbs.edu.ng