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I N O P E N P R O G R A M S
4 CONSECUTIVE YEARS
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SEIZE NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN CHANGING TIMES
Rapidly evolving and seldom foreseen political, technical and social developments are reshaping our world – and continually opening new business opportunities. The challenge for senior executives is to assess and address the changing reality, identify and validate the best opportunities, and bring them to market.
This is difficult, risky – but at the same time exciting. As a senior executive, you must rethink your strategies, your go-to-market approaches, and your organization’s fitness for purpose. Above all, you must communicate the value rationale for change.
TURN A STRATEGIC INSIGHT INTO A GAME-CHANGING MOVE
IMD’s Breakthrough Program for Senior Executives (BPSE) facilitates this process, by providing you with the necessary space, context and support to uncover a strategic insight and develop it into a game-changing move that positions your business for the future.
Building on your already considerable experience, BPSE will help you:
Look at your business from a different perspective
Identify new opportunities in your business to create exceptional value
Build the momentum necessary to deliver breakthrough change
Remain a relevant and key business influencer
GET YOUR ORGANIZATION READY FOR CHANGE
You will explore, define, validate and commit to your breakthrough – harnessing insights from strategy, inspiration from successful go to market approaches, and the wisdom of leadership counsel. Ahead of the program, you receive one-on-one coaching to identify a promising business opportunity. You then refine your idea during the program – isolating the real issues impeding progress, then searching for and testing a way forward. Finally, you get real take-home value: a personal agenda and action plan for organizational change management to initiate on your return.
BPSE is for senior executives at, or near, the top of their organization.
Participants are generally at committee, group or divisional level – in the loop of all key business and strategy decisions, and with considerable experience, influence and power. IMD carefully selects a balanced mix of executives from different industries and geographies for each session, to ensure the best peer learning environment.
What participants say
6 months afterwards
+80% have become more effective leaders*
+75% have successfully applied their learning*
HIGH-IMPACT RESULTS
*Results from a survey conducted with 204 participants 6 months after attending an IMD program (2015)
Attending BPSE has helped me find new ways to work better with my team, to prepare for changes ahead and when planning the execution of future product launches. The program also reinforced the importance and impact my own behaviour can have on the organization.
Michael Danzl | General Manager | Actelion Pharmaceuticals | Germany

Program Director
Seán A. Meehan
Irish
Martin Hilti Professor of
Marketing and Change
Management
PhD London Business School
WEEK 1 – COMMIT TO YOUR BUSINESS BREAKTHROUGH
The first week focuses on looking at your business through new lenses and addressing your organization’s ambition from a new perspective. You’ll also explore just what it will take to achieve your breakthrough – both organizationally and personally. You will identify the capabilities required to achieve your breakthrough, develop the plan to realize it, and visualize and prepare to lead it.
THEMES
Understanding breakthroughs
The global economic context
Understanding today’s customers and becoming customer centric
Strategic perspectives and options
Finding your breakthrough and orchestrating it
Mobilizing organizational energy
Visualizing the journey and exploring commitment
WEEK 2 – MAKE YOUR BREAKTHROUGH HAPPEN
During the second week, you will assess the components required for, and risks associated with, successfully bringing your business breakthrough to market.
You will explore issues of courage and personal effectiveness – both critical to driving organizational change and making your breakthrough happen.
THEMES
Visualizing the journey, assessing the challenges and planning for change
Unblocking change and negotiating the deal
Building the coalition and closing the deal
Making the commitment and making it happen
PERSONALIZED ONE-ON-ONE COACHING
In addition to one-on-one coaching before the program, you also receive personalized coaching during and after the program to help you follow through successfully with achieving your breakthrough.
LEADERSHIP
BREAKTHROUGH
STRATEGIC
INSIGHT
GO TO MARKET

On the shores of Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland,
40 minutes by road or rail from Geneva International Airport.
DURATION: 13 DAYS WITH ADDITIONAL PRE- AND
POST-PROGRAM SUPPORT
BPSE 1
BPSE 2
BPSE 3
April 10–22
September 4–16
November 27 – December 9
2016*
2016*
2016*
BPSE 1
BPSE 2
BPSE 3
March 26 – April 7
September 3–15
2017*
2017*
November 26 – December 8 2017*
Fee 2016: CHF 27,500*
*IMD reserves the right to modify the program dates, location and fee at any time.
ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE PREVIOUSLY SENT
PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE
ABU DHABI NATIONAL OIL COMPANY
BASF
BATA
DEUTSCHE BANK
GLAXOSMITHKLINE
HITACHI
ING
LUFTHANSA
MAYBANK
MITSUBISHI
NESTLE
OMAN MINISTRY OF OIL & GAS
PEPSICO
SHELL
SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT
TRANSET
TALK WITH US
+41 21 618 07 00 info @ imd.org
APPLY NOW www.imd.org/bpse

BPSE helps you uncover a strategic insight and develop it into a game-changing move that positions your business for the future:
» Look at your business from a different perspective
» Identify new opportunities in your business to create exceptional value
» Build the momentum necessary to deliver breakthrough change
» Remain a relevant and key business influencer
» Benefit from real take-home value : a personal agenda and action plan for personal and organizational breakthrough
OVERVIEW OF PROGRAM TOPICS
Relative time spent per topic in the program.
For illustrative purposes only.
Strategy
Economics/
Analysis
Political
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Marke ting
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Self
Leaders hip
Ethics
Benchmark your professional capabilities and discover your
4 top competencies www.imd.org/gli

IMD is ranked in executive education worldwide
( Financial Times 2008–2015) and in open programs worldwide
( Financial Times 2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015).
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Alumni benefits
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You become part of an exclusive network of global executives worldwide:
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11,000 board level and C-suite www.imd.org/alumni
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