Business Leadership in the Age of Disruption

The Transforming Disruption Into Advantage: A Strategic Approach program from Kellogg Executive Education at Northwestern provides the unique opportunity for participants to develop in-depth knowledge of the disruptive forces at work in today’s volatile business environment and design strategies to protect their organizations and leverage disruption for success. Over the course of six weeks, this program guides participants in creating an actionable business strategy to lead their organization through any type of disruption, known or unknown. Each week builds on the previous one, giving participants the opportunity to create a comprehensive plan to foster resiliency and growth in an unpredictable business environment. Module 1: Disruption in the Workforce Understand how globalization has changed the world’s economy and identify potential workforce disruptions so participants can develop a plan to protect your organization. Module 2: The Polarization of Consumer Demand Explore consumer behavior and discover how insights can be used to design a strategy that helps your organization thwart disruption. Then, dive into the segmentation of value versus luxury, emerging markets, and new pathways to growth. Module 3: The Second Wave of Globalization: Digital Platforms and Direct to Consumer Survey the second wave of globalization and the effects and growth opportunities of digitization and disintermediation. Module 4: Remote Work — Opportunities and Impacts Examine the potential for remote work to impact productivity, creativity, innovation, and management. Module 5: Artificial Intelligence Disruptions AI can be a useful tool, but it can also be a source of disruption. Learn the history of AI, its traditional applications, and how, with supervision, it can be leveraged to solve business problems. Module 6: Climate Change The effects of climate change are far-reaching. Learn about the scope of the climate crisis, and its potential impact on industry and the global economy.