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Disruptive Innovation Strategy: Innovate to Disrupt your Industry

Disruptive Innovation Strategy: Innovate to Disrupt your Industry

“Disruptive Innovation Strategy: Innovate to disrupt your industry” equips leaders with the tools to create new markets, redefine industries, and drive growth through disruptive innovation by identifying unmet needs, designing bold solutions, and building scalable business models.
This programme is ideal for senior executives and business leaders, senior managers leading innovation programs in their organizations, founders of start ups, senior product and innovation managers, investment and venture capital firms, business analysts and mid level managers
Hybrid Programme
LBS Campus
Programme Date
Sep 8, 2026 (3 days)

Programme Fee

₦850,000 (Excluding VAT)
Hybrid Programme
LBS Campus
Hybrid Programme
LBS Campus

Programme Date

Sep 8, 2026 (3 days)
Hybrid Programme
LBS Campus
Programme Fee
850,000

Programme Overview

Smart agile upstarts are disrupting established incumbent industries and their boundaries, creating and scaling new businesses in markets that might not have historically existed. These disruptive innovators are redrawing the structure of industries and establishing new orders, leveraging technology, great product design and disruptive innovation 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 disruptive business from within, ensuring that you protect your business from potential disruption.

Key Learning Outcomes
Understand the fundamentals of disruptive innovation strategy and develop the mindset to identify disruptive innovation opportunities
Design smart, innovative products and disruptive business models, and 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, and drive change externally or internally to support your disruptive innovation strategy
Hybrid Programme
Programme Date
Sep 8, 2026 (3 days)
Programme Fee
₦850,000 (Excluding VAT)
Fundamentals of Disruptive Strategy
  • Establish the core concepts and historical context of Disruptive Innovation theory.

  • Define the difference between sustaining and disruptive innovations, including the S-curve model.

  • Explore the role of First Principles Thinking as a foundational approach to innovation.

  • Analyze why great companies often fail to adapt to disruptive threats (The Innovator’s Dilemma).

Incumbent Response to Disruption
  • Disruptive Innovation: How Industry Incumbents Respond to Disruption- Challenges and Opportunities: Examine the strategic challenges faced by market leaders.

  • Identify the organizational structures and processes that hinder incumbent innovation.

  • Study successful and unsuccessful incumbent strategies for fighting or embracing disruption.

  • Formulate a framework for creating separate, nimble business units to pursue new growth.

Innovation Mindsets and Culture
  • Explore the power of Storytelling for Innovation to inspire action and align stakeholders.

  • Differentiate between Intrapreneurship (innovation inside an established firm) and traditional Entrepreneurship.

  • Develop strategies for fostering a culture that encourages risk-taking and learning from failure.

  • Identify key leadership behaviors that support an innovation-driven environment.

Introduction to Design Thinking
  • Bringing Disruptive Innovation Ideas to Life: Introduction to Design Thinking: Introduce the human-centered, iterative process of Design Thinking.

  • Outline the five phases of Design Thinking (Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test).

  • Emphasize the importance of bias towards action and rapid prototyping.

  • Apply basic Design Thinking tools to a live or hypothetical innovation challenge.

Deep Dive into User Needs
  • Understanding User Needs and Problem Framing: Master techniques for deep empathy and observation to uncover latent customer needs.

  • Learn how to synthesize insights to create a clear and actionable Problem Statement.

  • Utilize tools like customer journey maps and persona development.

Designing Disruptive Business Models
  • Disruptive Business Models: Analyze the components of a business model (Value Proposition, Key Resources, Revenue Streams, etc.).

  • Study examples of inherently disruptive business models (e.g., subscription, platform, freemium).

  • Develop new business model options that complement a disruptive product or service idea.

  • Learn how to use prototyping and testing to validate the viability of a new business model.

Olu Akanmu was, until recently, President and Co-CEO of OPay Nigeria, one of the country’s largest fintech platforms with a unicorn valuation. He has broad C-suite leadership experience across healthcare, FMCG, telecoms, banking, fintech, and the non-profit sector, with a strong record of scaling businesses. His past roles include Executive Director of Retail Banking at FCMB, Chief Marketing Officer at Airtel Nigeria, Retail Banking Executive at Bank PHB, General Manager of Consumer Marketing at MTN, and Client Service Director at Insight Communications. He also served as COO at SFH/PSI. Olu holds a Pharmacy degree, an MBA, and advanced management and research qualifications.

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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