Online program
Business Growth Strategies

Create long-term growth by reinventing your business.

Online program

Business Growth Strategies

Create long-term growth by reinventing your business.

Drive growth for your organization by adapting and innovating

Our Business Growth Strategies program provides tools and insights to help you ensure that your business survives and grows in today’s fast-evolving marketplace.

You’ll discover how your organization needs to “leap” across knowledge disciplines to reimagine how a product is made, or a service is delivered. You’ll also learn the five fundamental principles that should guide and inform your business’s preparation to make that leap.

Throughout the program, you’ll look at case studies of companies that have endured and prospered for centuries by identifying new growth opportunities, adapting, and innovating. You’ll be inspired to accelerate your own organization’s ability to acquire and cultivate knowledge that is critical to its future success.

You’ll also discover why managerial creativity is increasingly important, and how you can leverage new technologies to help achieve your objectives.

Supported by your professional learning coach, you’ll develop a business growth strategy for your organization and an action plan for implementing it.

Ensure innovation projects build new knowledge and capabilities for the future.

Explore how strategic planning can help to quickly test your ideas on the market.

Discover the potential of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines for your firm or business unit.

Develop a business strategy and an action plan for implementation.

You and your class

You are an innovation leader searching for new ways of future-proofing your organization’s long-term business success. You are an entrepreneur or mid-level manager responsible for driving the development of new ideas and innovative practices in your organization. If you are part of an organization looking to grow its core business or identify and capitalize on new market opportunities then this, program is for you.

Your class is individually put together through a selection process to ensure that you experience the most impactful learning with a truly diverse group of global peers. Your class will become a trusted resource, encourage your learning journey and surprise you in many unanticipated beneficial ways both during and beyond your classroom experience. Read more about the admission criteria.

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AVG. YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

40

AVERAGE AGE

84%

MID-LEVEL MANAGERS

I attended the Business Growth Strategies course with IMD. It changed my perspective and thinking on how we take decisions for change in any organization. The course itself is very well organized and feedback from the coaches and peers is always constructive.

Dobromir Atanasov Service Development Manager, Fanastic Services

This program is essential to conceptualize your organization’s next leap. It equips you with a process, tools and frameworks to successfully grow your business with the least cost or risk. The program is full of examples, assignments, and case studies that help put your ideas into perspective. I strongly recommend it before forging your growth strategies.

Fahad Mohammed Alkhorayef General Manager, Alkhorayef Printing Solutions

Yu’s research exemplifies how management theory is rigorously built and improved. He carefully documents how companies in the past have spotted and seized opportunities for growth. I find the case studies compelling and the principles intriguing for all business leaders.

Clayton Christensen | Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

What I learned about the disruption process and growth strategies on the program was of fundamental importance for implementing my business plan for new energy markets and building a strategy. My interaction with participants from around the world was great and opened me to different viewpoints.

Bruno Sampaio de Almeida Spínola Neoenergia/Iberdrola
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The IMD difference

Designed for impact and delivered for you, IMD’s online programs help you achieve your aspirations wherever you are in your career or the world. Here’s what makes the IMD online program experience exceptional.

Access to thought leadership

Tap into the expertise of IMD’s faculty – globally recognized experts in their fields – wherever you are.

Personalized coaching

Benefit from one-on-one support from an experienced executive coach who helps you apply new insights to your own context.

Global peer interaction

Collaborate with participants from around the world through group and pair work that challenges your thinking and broadens your perspective.

Flexible format

Engage in a structured yet flexible learning experience that enables you to progress at your own pace and complete weekly assignments around your busy schedule.

Applied learning for real impact

Apply what you learn right away through practical assignments designed to make a direct impact on your work.

Next start & fee

Length: 5 weeks (4-6 hours per week).

IMD Online Executive Certificate
Advance your career with IMD’s Online Executive Certificates

Ready to elevate your career and personal development? IMD’s Online Executive Certificates deliver immersive, fully online experiences designed to deepen your expertise and sharpen your skills in key business areas.

Choose between three certificate options – Leadership, Strategy, or Digital Acceleration – to take charge of your growth and propel your executive career to new heights. The Online Executive Certificate is an accredited Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) and grants you access to IMD’s dynamic global alumni community.

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