SBS Endorsed – Certificate in Leading Innovation and Organizational Transformation

Program Overview

Organisations across the Gulf are being asked to reinvent services, adopt digital and AI capabilities and become more agile, often while maintaining critical operations. This programme gives leaders a practical toolkit for both sides of that agenda: building an innovation system with idea pipelines, design thinking, lean experimentation and portfolio governance, and leading large-scale transformation using structured models such as Kotter's eight steps and the ADKAR approach to individual change. Participants learn to balance exploration with exploitation, overcome organisational antibodies, and measure progress with innovation and transformation metrics that senior leadership trusts.

Learning Outcomes

• ✓Assess the organisation's innovation maturity across strategy, culture, processes and resources.
• ✓Design an innovation pipeline with stage gates, funding rules and portfolio balance across core, adjacent and transformational ideas.
• ✓Apply design thinking and lean experimentation to develop and test a service or process concept.
• ✓Build a transformation roadmap using a recognised change model with clear phases, owners and milestones.
• ✓Define leading and lagging indicators to track innovation outcomes and transformation adoption.

Target Audience

• Innovation managers and chief innovation officers
• Transformation office and strategy leaders
• Department heads leading service redesign or digitalisation
• Excellence and institutional development specialists

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Training Methodology

Applied Project & Assessment