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Design Thinking For Competitive Advantage

Design Thinking For Competitive Advantage

This programme equips participants with practical strategic thinking and innovation skills to navigate uncertainty, respond to market disruption, and create sustainable value in fast-changing business environments.
Designed for senior professionals, entrepreneurs, policy shapers, and functional leaders seeking sharper decision-making capabilities. It suits individuals responsible for growth, transformation, competitiveness, and long-term positioning across private enterprises, public institutions, startups, and mission-driven organisations operating in complex environments.
Hybrid Programme
LBS Campus
Programme Date
Dec 3, 2026 (3 days)

Programme Fee

₦750,000 (Excluding VAT)
Hybrid Programme
LBS Campus
Hybrid Programme
LBS Campus

Programme Date

Dec 3, 2026 (3 days)
Hybrid Programme
LBS Campus
Programme Fee
750,000

Programme Overview

Today’s organisations operate in conditions marked by uncertainty, rapid change, and constant disruption. Traditional approaches to planning and execution are increasingly insufficient as customer behaviour evolves, technologies advance, and external pressures intensify. Leaders are required to rethink how value is created and delivered while adapting quickly to shifting realities.

This programme focuses on developing creative, market-oriented strategies that enable participants to respond effectively to disruption. Emphasis is placed on innovation as a core leadership capability, helping organisations design better offerings, improve service delivery, and remain relevant. Participants gain insights into how markets reward those who anticipate needs, align resources efficiently, and continuously reinvent their approach to serving customers and society.

Key Learning Outcomes
  • Strengthen strategic thinking for volatile and uncertain environments
  • Build innovation capabilities that drive sustainable value creation
  • Enhance leadership confidence in high-pressure decision scenarios
Hybrid Programme
Programme Date
Dec 3, 2026 (3 days)
Programme Fee
₦750,000 (Excluding VAT)
Foundations of Creativity and Innovation
  • Meaning and relevance of creativity and innovation in modern enterprises

  • How innovative thinking drives competitiveness and long-term value

  • Lessons from giants of enterprise and how they sustain innovation

  • Shifting from routine thinking to opportunity-driven problem solving

Creative Thinking and Customer Insight
  • The search for breakthrough ideas using divergent and convergent thinking

  • Techniques for expanding options and narrowing to viable solutions

  • Understanding customers’ explicit and latent needs

Innovative Problem Solving and Business Models
  • Solving complex and ambiguous problems through creative thinking tools

  • Applying innovative frameworks to redesign products, services, and processes

  • Lean Start-up principles for rapid experimentation and learning

Embedding Innovation in Organizations
  • Moving innovation from isolated efforts to organizational capability

  • Institutionalizing innovation management within the workplace

  • Aligning leadership, culture, and processes to support innovation

  • Building systems that reward experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement

Chris Ogbechie will be leading sessions on Implementing a Growth Strategy in an Africa-to-Africa Context and Execution Challenges in Africa. He is currently the Dean of Lagos Business School. Professor Ogbechie teaches strategy, sustainability, and corporate governance at the Lagos Business School and Strathmore Business in Nairobi, Kenya; he is also the founding Director of the School’s Sustainability Centre. Professor Ogbechie has been involved with several start-ups. He was Chairman, Board of Directors, Diamond Bank Pl,c and is on the board of several private and public companies, including Red Star Express Plc (FedEx), National Salt Company of Nigeria Plc. (NASCON), Health Partners and Palton Morgan Holding
Franklin N Ngwu is the Director of Lagos Business School (LBS) Sustainability Centre and an Associate Professor of Strategy, Corporate Governance, and Risk Management. He has a PhD in Law and Economics of Banking Regulation, an MSc in Economics, and a Post-graduate Diploma in Development Economics from the University of Manchester, UK. He has consulted for both local and international organizations and worked at Barclays Bank UK for over five years. In Nigeria, he has provided either training or consulting services to many firms, including Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), African Development Bank(AfDB), StanbicIBTC, First Bank of Nigeria(FBN), Banwo & Ighodalo, WAPIC Insurance, Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE), Asset & Resource Management Holding Company (ARM), Nigerian Breweries Plc, AXA Mansard, Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria Plc, Airtel Nigeria, and many other organisations.

The Admission Process

Begin your path to professional and personal growth with our straightforward enrollment process.

1. Click on the Apply Now button.

2. Select the number of participants to enroll on the programme and then fill in your detials.

3. Request for an invoice or make an instant payment via our secured payment gateway.

4. Upon confirmation of payment, a programme manager will get in touch with you at least three days before the programme commences.

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