This course covers Organizational Alignment and Strategic Innovation Planning. It is based on the trend in industry that requires successful organizations to continuously identify and respond to many ongoing market opportunities simultaneously. To be an organization that is agile, flexible, creative and knowledgeable enough to do so is no small achievement. The course takes the findings of recent research on organizational alignment, alignment of innovation strategies, alignment of enterprise infrastructure architectures, and alignment of orgnizational knowledge, and combines them into an integrated market strategy. Part A introduces organizational culture and describes how to bridge social distances experienced by your global team participants. It also describes how new innovation strategies can threaten outdated organizational structures, and ends with describing how to align your firm’s culture to its strategic goals. Part B addresses the need to define an innovation strategy, and how to align it with your firm’s strategic goals and business strategies. A review of innovation and disruption in the market place ends with a case study Uber. Part C addresses the need to align a firms enterprise architecture to their future business strategies in order to avoid being locked into past infrastructure investments. Countering architectural disruption requires a flexible organization that can compete in a number of directions. The advantages of platforms over product lines is examined and then case studies on Apple and Amazon are examined. Part D addresses how to make information meaningful and how to align organizational knowledge with the firm’s business strategies, innovation strategies, and enterprise architecture. Since constant learning will be required to compete in future market places, organizations must be able to learn constantly, and create effective learning environments. This part ends with a case study on Alibaba.   Course/Class Duration: 14 days / 21 hours Certificate of Achievement