Business Innovation Certificate from Esade, led by Carlos Iglesias

Competing according to the rules of the current context, which is increasingly changing and accelerating, is a challenge for most established companies across all sectors. A new scenario requires professionals familiar with agile methodologies and an innovative mindset: capable of making strategic decisions, identifying business opportunities, incorporating new products and services, or optimizing existing ones, and above all, meeting customer needs with the greatest efficiency possible.

The Business Innovation Certificate from Esade Executive Education consists of three programs that, taken together, provide a cross-sectional view of innovation, from its most strategic to its most tactical aspects.

• The first module, Strategic Innovation, focuses on mastering processes and how to connect innovation with corporate strategy.
• The second, Business Agility, equips leaders to become the benchmarks for their companies' transformation, acquiring an agile value creation mindset.
• The journey concludes with the Design Thinking program, a methodology focused on designing and testing products, services, or business models, in a fully practical manner applicable to the real context.

Esade is a business school with over 60 years of history, leading the top international rankings and characterized by its close ties to the business world. For this reason, the professors of the Business Innovation Certificate, in addition to being teachers, are active professionals, an aspect that guarantees the practical and applied focus of their classes. Training for real professional life.

The learning is experiential, innovative, and focused on achieving high impact. A Learning by Doing methodology is used, combining synchronous online classes, guided discussion forums, asynchronous video cases, self-assessment tests, practical activities, and continuous and personalized mentoring.

The Business Innovation Certificate from Esade is designed for:

• General managers, COOs, and senior management profiles who need a strategic view of innovation, both disruptive and incremental, grounded in their business operations.
• Innovation directors and digital transformation leaders who want to consolidate best practices in portfolio management within their companies.
• Functional area directors who need to adopt a holistic view of innovation and want to advance towards more cross-sectional positions.
• Entrepreneurs in exploratory phases who want innovation to be present from the beginning in their projects.

Strategic vision, agile leadership capability, innovative mindset, or systemic thinking in problem-solving are some of the competencies acquired by taking this high-level training. A powerful mix of hard and soft skills essential to face the highly changing business environments that characterize our era.