Building Competitive Advantage

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Outthink the Competition explains how one way to outmaneuver competition is by being so unconventional that you disorient them. The book’s author, Kaihan Krippendorff, shares his perspectives and insights from the book in this video-based course.

Duration: 20 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • Out-Innovating Your Competition
  • Finding a Fourth Option to Compete
  • The IDEAS Framework for Innovation
  • Taking Your New Approach to Market

The target audience for this course is leaders who want to create a strategic competitive advantage for their organization. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • A clear sense of how you’ll compete differently than your competitors
  • Generation of new strategies that will deliver sustainable advantages
  • Faster time-to-market of innovative ways to compete

Kaihan Krippendorff is a principal at thoughtLEADERS. He began his career with McKinsey & Company before founding the growth strategy and innovation consulting firm Outthinker. His growth strategies and innovations have generated over $2.5B in revenue for many of the world’s most recognizable companies. A best-selling author of five books, including Outthink the Competition and Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs, Kaihan also founded the Outthinker Strategy Network – a community comprised of strategy executives from the world’s top Fortune 500 and private companies. Kaihan teaches at business schools throughout the US and internationally. He holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering, Wharton, Columbia, and London Business Schools and a doctorate in strategy.

 

Driving Innovation in Your Organization

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Driving Innovation from Within offers actionable insights and frameworks that leaders can apply to build a culture of internal innovation within their companies. The book’s author, Kaihan Krippendorff, shares his perspectives and insights from the book in this video-based course.

Duration: 20 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • The Seven Barriers to Innovation
  • Linking Your Innovations to Strategy
  • Understanding Market Needs
  • Overcoming Value Blockers
  • Building a Team and Taking Action

The target audience for this course is leaders who want to identify and execute innovations that will give their organizations a competitive advantage. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • A better understanding of what innovations will drive value
  • An improved ability to overcome barriers to innovation
  • Faster execution of ideas that can unlock market-changing ideas

Kaihan Krippendorff is a principal at thoughtLEADERS. He began his career with McKinsey & Company before founding the growth strategy and innovation consulting firm Outthinker. His growth strategies and innovations have generated over $2.5B in revenue for many of the world’s most recognizable companies. A best-selling author of five books, including Outthink the Competition and Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs, Kaihan also founded the Outthinker Strategy Network – a community comprised of strategy executives from the world’s top Fortune 500 and private companies. Kaihan teaches at business schools throughout the US and internationally. He holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering, Wharton, Columbia, and London Business Schools and a doctorate in strategy.

 

Becoming a Thought Leader

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Generate great ideas, disseminate them, and become known as a domain expert in your company or your industry.

Duration: 25 minutes of video lessons

This course covers:

  • What is Thought Leadership?
  • Choosing a Domain of Expertise
  • Leading the Thinking
  • Sharing Your Thoughts
  • Building Your Visibility

The target audience for this course consists of individuals who want to be known for their expertise and sought out for their perspectives. The value of this course to participants and to the organization as a whole are:

  • Elevated profiles and increased visibility
  • Better dissemination of information
  • Being sought out by customers, partners, and prospective employers/employees

Mike Figliuolo is the founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS. He is an internationally recognized author, trainer, speaker, and blogger on the topics of leadership, communications, strategy, decision-making, problem solving, and other critical business skills. An honor graduate from West Point, Mike served in the US Army as a combat arms officer. Before founding thoughtLEADERS, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro. He is the author of three books: One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership , Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results, and The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved. Mike is also one of the most popular authors on LinkedIn Learning where he has published 30 courses that have been viewed millions of times by learners from around the world.

 

Breakthrough Innovation

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Generate and select unique strategies that separate you from the competition. Construct bold and disruptive solutions then build and execute a plan for taking those strategies to market.

Duration: 2 hours (Approximately 80 minutes of video lessons and 40 minutes of exercises)

Breakthrough Innovation equips employees at all levels with the tools they need to innovate and strategize in a highly competitive world to achieve superior results. The approach helps you generate and select unique strategies to achieve sustainable success. It teaches an easy, practical, and immediately applicable framework that provides a tool set and common language to address your biggest innovation challenges.Get acquainted with the Breakthrough Innovation research and framework then begin to put those approaches into use on real business challenges.

This course covers the IDEAS framework:

  • Imagine: Explore your ideal goals to concretely identify future goals
  • Dissect: Assess the full breadth of strategic options and decide where to focus
  • Expand: Brainstorm multiple potential solutions to your strategic challenges
  • Analyze: Explore seemingly crazy ideas, ultimately reaching clarity on a set of innovative ideas for the proposed strategy
  • Sell: Turn ideas into recommendations to get others excited about implementing the strategy

The course consists of instructor-introduced concepts, practical application exercises, and supporting materials. The course includes:

  • Extensive instructor videos to guide you through the content
  • A downloadable course guide of slides to help you follow the instruction
  • A downloadable workbook to apply the method as you take the course
  • Exercises, quizzes, and case examples to help you apply these methods as you learn them

The target audience for this course is individuals and teams at all levels seeking ways to increase their strategic and innovative thinking capabilities. The program is ideal for those looking for a repeatable way to produce and implement innovative strategies. The value of this course to the participants and to the organization as a whole are that participants:

  • Learn and gain command over a set of strategic and innovative thinking tools
  • Apply these tools to an existing business challenge in their organization
  • Construct bold and disruptive solutions for an existing issue
  • Clarify an innovative strategy
  • Define a plan to validate and begin executing the strategy
  • Are ready to replicate the process to generate future disruptive growth strategies

Kaihan Krippendorff is a principal at thoughtLEADERS. He began his career with McKinsey & Company before founding the growth strategy and innovation consulting firm Outthinker. His growth strategies and innovations have generated over $2.5B in revenue for many of the world’s most recognizable companies. A best-selling author of five books, including Outthink the Competition and Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs, Kaihan also founded the Outthinker Strategy Network – a community comprised of strategy executives from the world’s top Fortune 500 and private companies. Kaihan teaches at business schools throughout the US and internationally. He holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering, Wharton, Columbia, and London Business Schools and a doctorate in strategy.

 

Strategic Business Planning

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Use a straightforward and effective strategic planning process that shows how to craft a clear, compelling plan for your organization – not just one time, but on an ongoing basis year after year.

Duration: 2 hours (Approximately 60 minutes of video lessons and 60 minutes of exercises)

The Strategic Business Planning course teaches you an effective strategic planning process that shows how to craft a clear, compelling strategic plan for your organization.

This course offers lessons on how to:

  • Understand the market, your place in it, and how to compete versus others
  • Set direction through clear articulation of vision, mission, and strategic filters
  • Define the organization’s current and desired future state
  • Clearly articulate the organization’s core competencies
  • Define a prioritized set of strategic filters to evaluate strategic initiatives
  • Inventory, evaluate, prioritize, and sequence initiatives to support the strategy
  • Allocate resources to initiatives based on priority and need
  • Package all this work into a compelling strategic plan

The course consists of instructor-introduced concepts, practical application exercises, and supporting materials. The course is pragmatic in that you’ll learn the strategic planning method while simultaneously applying it to real-world business needs. The course includes:

  • Extensive, in-depth instructor videos to guide you through the content
  • A downloadable course guide of slides to help you follow the instruction
  • A downloadable workbook to apply the method as you take the course
  • Exercises, quizzes, and case examples to help you apply the method as you learn it

The target audience for this course is the leadership team of a business, business unit, or organization or individuals in roles that require them to define their organization’s strategy.

The benefits of this course are:

  • Learning a strategic planning process you can replicate each year thereby making plans more compelling and rigorous with less effort than ad hoc planning efforts
  • An efficient means of gathering and processing key inputs for strategic planning
  • Better strategic alignment, prioritization, and resource allocation
  • Clarity and focus which eliminates low value initiatives and drives critical ones

Mike Figliuolo is the founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS. He is an internationally recognized author, trainer, speaker, and blogger on the topics of leadership, communications, strategy, decision-making, problem solving, and other critical business skills. An honor graduate from West Point, Mike served in the US Army as a combat arms officer. Before founding thoughtLEADERS, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro. He is the author of three books: One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results, and The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved. Mike is also one of the most popular authors on LinkedIn Learning where he has published 30 courses that have been viewed millions of times by learners from around the world.