We use this page as display space for new, conceptual materials that provide the building blocks for leading-edge custom executive education. The materials we present here serve as Prototypes for executive programs that effect change in executive mind-set and behaviors, draw focus to complex business themes, and serve as catalysts for organizational renewal.
The elements on this page address perennial business questions in a fresh, current context. Questions include:
- How do we create a culture of innovation at all levels in our organization, from cost containment to product development?
- How do we convert our corporate culture from an “employee” mind-set to an “owner” mind-set?
- How do we get our leaders to tackle our most significant opportunities and most pressing challenges?
To help our partners and custom clients address these issues, Olin Business School continually designs educational and developmental frameworks that encourage growth and improve performance in today's business environment. These new concepts have provided platforms that are the foundation of many of our Custom Executive Programs. We design every program to cover key management development issues in an integrated way to help your organization drive results.
We revise our program prototypes on a continual basis.
Rooted in the Competing Values Framework ,this concept is about innovating – everything you do. We show you how to innovate the way your organization teams, how to build better processes, how to build a more competitive market position and how to seek out new innovation opportunities for organic growth.
Day 1 – Collaborate, create, control, compete
Day 2 – Finding innovation opportunities
Day 3 – The process of innovation
Day 4 – Building commercial viability
Day 5 – The culture of innovation
Leaders, and everyone else in your company, who think like owners make decisions that create value every single day. Employees spend your money, but owners make investment decisions with each resource they allocate. This program helps your leadership team and organization embrace (and live) the owner mind-set.
- Foundations of judgment
- Financial value creation
- Business excellence
- The owner mind-set
Everything starts with seeing the same page. Our research shows that one of the biggest impediments to sound business planning is absence of agreement. Whether it’s an opportunity, issue or outright challenge, your leaders may not always be on the same page. We have a process that can get you there and faculty who can take you through it. In our Executive Workout Sessions, Olin faculty have developed a process that helps your executives push beyond their biases and agendas to look at the issues for what they are and to collectively steer toward a mutually beneficial solution.
Explore collective observations – Understand and agree on the opportunity – Create a plan of attack
While our Prototypes are not designed as regularly scheduled offerings, they can be designed into a custom program for your organization. To adapt to specific needs, our Prototypes can be presented as complete programs or broken up a la carte depending on specific needs and circumstances. To learn more about our Prototypes, please contact Samuel Chun at 314-935-8875 or schun@wustl.edu.