Leading Digital Transformation and Innovation

Program by Stanford Center for Professional Development and HPI

Leading successfully through the digital evolution: The Stanford Center for Professional Development and the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) offer an intensive executive program that merges three key transformational factors: human needs, digital technology and business transformation management. This unique integrated program aims to transmit the knowledge, practice and the mindset of NEW LEADERSHIP in times of change.

Dgital Transformation and Design Thinking_HPI Academy

Background

Change is the new constant in leadership of the 21st century. Never before in history have the opportunities of creating new business value been so easily reachable for organizations – and so elusive at the same time. Digital technology offers speed and scalability to drive successful innovation and adaptivity on the one hand - and represents one of the most important leadership challenges on the other leaders are charged with navigating the dynamic complexity of a new era, which more than ever requires a holistic perspective.

Digital Transformation is not just located in your IT department – it is a cultural revolution that reaches all parts of your organization:

your internal infrastructure
your relationships to partners and clients
your product & service portfolio

Successful Digital Transformation requires a human-driven strategy, a creative view on technological potential and a hands-on entrepreneurial mindset.

Our Program

The program provides a unique, holistic training for the pioneers of change, grounded in years of extensive experience in education, research and practice in the fields of digital technology, human centered innovation, Design Thinking and Leadership. It follows a simple equation that is the foundation of the course curriculum:

DT(=Design Thinking) x DT(=Digital Technology) = DT² (=TRANSFORMATIONAL IMPACT)

Discover a holistic, step-by-step approach to NEW LEADERSHIP, which encompasses three types of value creation:

Block 1: Using Design Thinking as a Leadership Strategy for Human-Centered Value Creation

Block 2: Growing your Knowledge and Creativity for Digital Technology Value Creation

Block 3: Getting inspired by Success Strategies of the Silicon Valley community for Business Value Creation

Each of these areas is at the center of a 3–4 day face-to-face training block. On-campus courses will be held at HPI in Potsdam, Germany and at Stanford University in California, USA, led by faculty of both institutions who are leading experts in their field. Online materials complement and deepen the unique learning experience.

Curriculum

The program is structured in 7 steps that enable you to set up both a solid theoretical framework and tangible actions to create the foundation for repeatable and scalable transformation for your organization. The Seven Value-Creation Steps in your roadmap:

1. What is your Purpose-Value?

2. Which Human Values are strong levers?

3. What is the Daily Work Value of change?

4. Which Digital Technology Value is an accelerator of change?

5. What fuels Strategic Value?

6. What elements to scale and anchor for Business Value?

7. Which Leadership Action will become symbol of your Vision and the prototype for Transformation Value?

Curriculum Leading Digital Transformation and Innovation_HPI Academy

BLOCK 1: DISCOVERING THE LEVERAGE POINTS OF HUMAN CENTERED TRANSFORMATION

Starting with the definition of your transformation purpose, you will discover and practice Design Thinking as a leadership strategy for creating an adaptive culture for making change.

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BLOCK 2: MINING UNTAPPED DIGITAL ACCELERATORS AND SCALING RESOURCES

In the second Block, you will focus on the pragmatic and strategic legitimation of Digital Transformation. You will discover how digital technology can magnify and scale solutions and how culture can act as a guiding force for creating a digital vision.

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BLOCK 3: MASTERING ENTREPRENEURIAL VALUE CREATION PRINCIPLES AND STRATEGIES

Finally, you will enrich your hands-on training and knowledge gathering experience with a full immersion into entrepreneurial mindset at Stanford University and Silicon Valley. You will leave with new knowledge, myriad examples, strategies and success principles as inspiration and foundation for creating business value with digital transformation.

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Video: Enabling Collaboration and Innovation

Key benefits

certificate from Stanford Center for Professional Development
focused and intensive program in diverse formats delivered by leading institutions
cutting edge themes covered by renowned experts in a practical and targeted way
international view when visiting the cradle of innovation—Silicon Valley
intensive exchange of experiences
further development of personal and professional skills for your career

Your Takeaways

Experience Design Thinking as a leadership strategy in digital transformation and explore digital technology’s power to create value. Based on the Digital Transformation Leadership Cycle you will develop an exemplary starting point and roadmap to a transformation vision.

As a leader, you will learn how to create exemplarily “compass activities” to role-model the change you want to achieve and create both a multiplication effect as well as operationalization guidelines for your management. Expect to be inspired by robust and effective transformation case studies and strategies from Silicon Valley researchers and entrepreneurs.

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Digital Transformation Leadership Cycle_HPI Academy

Application

Spring 2019 (FULLY BOOKED):

Block 1: April 11-13, 2019 at HPI D-School in Potsdam

Block 2: May 9-11, 2019 at HPI in Potsdam

Block 3: June 25-28, 2019 at Stanford University

Fall 2019:

Block 1: August 29-31, 2019 at HPI D-School in Potsdam

Block 2: September 30 - October 2, 2019 at HPI in Potsdam

Block 3: November 11-14, 2019 at Stanford University

Language: English

Fee: 17,500 EUR + VAT

(including course materials, teaching, catering; excluding travel and accommodation)

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Partners and program locations

Stanford Center for Professional Development at Stanford University, California, USA
Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH, Potsdam, Germany

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Target Group

Executives and business leaders, with and without extensive IT expertise, who need to tackle the challenges of Digital Transformation and Innovation in their company
Managers of innovation, strategy, HR, or product development
Entrepreneurs from all business sectors

Certification

Upon completion of the course, participants will acquire a certificate in LEADING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND INNOVATION from the Stanford Center for Professional Development. The program requires active participation and full-time attendance in order to receive a certificate.

Brochure and contact

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Download our brochure with all information on our program here.

For individual consultation, please contact

Dagmar Willems

(0049) 331 5509 291
info(at)hpi-academy.de

Design Thinking und New Leadership

From Design Thinking to an innovative strategy_HPI Academy

How the innovation method has developed into a leadership strategy for change processes and how it can be implemented by Annie Kerguenne

What is Design Thinking? If you ask 100 people, you can expect to get just as many different answers.

A sampling of responses include:

"A structured creation process", "A method for developing innovative products, services and processes in a team", "A toolbox for more efficient work" or even "A human-centered solution for complex problems".

For some, it is an innovation method with defined phases and tools, for others a user-centered orientation or philosophy.

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A review

Gerhard Puhlmann, Managing Director of S-Servicepartner Berlin GmbH.

"Most importantly, I gained new perspectives on digitalization and its possibilities. I liked that during our work in the course we focused on the emerging opportunities in the field. Witnessing this optimistic spirit “live” during our visits to Stanford and to Silicon Valley companies was very inspiring."

FEEDBACK FROM OUR PARTICIPANTS

“The HPI Stanford Leading Digital Innovation and Transformation was a very impactful program. I went into the course as a new digital leader who was already a creative, idea generator searching for the magic formula to help customers transform for the digital era. Through our hands on design thinking sessions, the innovation stories and experiences from the professors and time in Silicon Valley I personally transformed to the innovators mindset. This course provides valuable content that I will leverage every day in my organization and with customers as a strong digital & innovative leader.”

Laura Grant,

Head of Digital Innovation – Public Sector

“The program in Leading Digital Transformation and Innovation, has been one of the most enriching experiences in my professional development, because it allowed me to explore the whole cycle of innovation. Through an experiential process of learning I have been able to apply creative methodologies with a user centric focus. This methods and concepts are applicable everywhere, because it tackles the infinite needs of innovation, from the basic incremental up to the disruptive kind. The collaboration between HPI and Stanford, provides the best of both worlds, technology and innovation mixed with creativity and entrepreneurship, generating a comprehensive and applicable approach to engage into this digital world.

When I came back to my day to day functions as VP for a large University in Chile, I realized how relevant this innovative mindset was for us. Just transferring my experience and new knowledge has been an asset into the development of new initiatives and how they impact our communities.

I would recommend this program to executives and professionals who are looking for a pathway to navigate this complex and uncertain digital era. People who are trying to tackle complex challenges and they are willing to re-think what it is believe as true.”

Mario Herane,

Vice-president, Universidad Mayor

"I highly recommend the program to people with the will to shape and lead their organization, who would like to gain a deepened understanding of digital transformation. Through the personal exchange with thought leaders from Stanford, HPI and other executives from all around the world, your view on what truly matters in your contexts will sharpen:
Customer choices matter!”

Dr. Olaf Tidelski,

Chief Customer Officer, Allianz Deutschland AG

“My major learnings from the Leading Digital Transformation and Innovation program were the Design Thinking methodologies, the real samples of digital technologies and also future perspectives of these technologies, as well as the value of creating an innovation culture. And of course, it was great seeing all these learnings applied in Silicon Valley.

By using approaches like Design Thinking, we will be able to create innovative solutions that better meet our business needs and bring a competitive advantage. Human centered design was a new way of thinking for me: I have mainly focused on the technological side of the transformation before taking part in the Leading Digital Transformation and Innovation program.

Now I have an holistic approach to achieve it. In my opinion, Design Thinking can be applied in all fields. I would recommend taking the course to executive and middle management, R&D as well as innovation teams and project leaders.”

Fatih Kurt,

Group IT Director, Standard Profil