STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM WITH FOCUS ON PRODUCT STRATEGY

International Certificate in
Strategy & Leadership

Become a high IMPACT LEADER with skills in STRATEGY INNOVATION LEADERSHIP FINANCE DIGITAL BUSINESS

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Key Highlights

"Leadership starts and ends with the team. This has been my learning as a Leader. Leaders have to go from Managing people to Influencing people, from Managing tasks to Managing Business outcomes."

"Business models are changing and a lot of startups are disrupting incumbents. Not just Product Managers but Engineering Leaders, Design Leaders and Business Leaders require Strategic Leadership skills to move up in their careers. I'm thrilled to see IPL building such great programs to help bridge the gap for tomorrow's leaders."

Multiple Case Studies and Assignments | 5 Capstone Industry Projects

Unlimited 1:1 Mentorship with Mentors & Faculty

Learning Library with Toolkits, Frameworks & Templates

Focused New Age Curriculum for Digital Leaders

Weekly Faculty Sessions (Live)

Exclusive Career Management Cell with Hiring Talentathons

Networking Opportunities on Campus and Off Campus

Career Labs - Career Coaching & Mentoring, Portfolio Building, Interview Preparation

"Leadership starts and ends with the team. This has been my learning as a Leader. Leaders have to go from Managing people to Influencing people, from Managing tasks to Managing Business outcomes."

Top Skills You Will Learn

Senior Leaders & Managers who want to be ready for the next big career jump.

Project Management & Program Management Professionals, Delivery & Account Managers, Engineering & QA Leaders, Sr. Business Analyst & Consultants.

Sr. Product Managers, Product Marketing Managers, Growth & Innovation Leaders, Entrepreneurs & Functional Heads

Top Skills You Will Learn

Strategic Management, Negotiation, Art of Story Telling, Business Strategy, Data Driven Decision-Making, Change Management, Conflict Resolution, Organizational Structure, Growth Strategies, Finance, Product Positioning Evangelism and Thought Leadership, Strategic Management, Digital Business Models, Routes to Market, GoTMarket Plans, Financial Statement Analysis, Financing Decision Making, Key Financial Decisions, Cash Flow Analysis, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Thinking, Data Visualization

Key Benefits

Data Driven Decision making & the ability to convince and influence others around it.
Ability to see the bigger picure and actively participate in building the long term strategy for the organization
Leverage New Age Paradigms and Frameworks like Design Thinking to drive innovation and build new products and services
Build the vocabulary & confidence to move into senior executive roles.
Formulating growth strategies at both corporate and business unit level
Ability to analyze financial statements (P&L) and metrics and build Business Plans & Monetization Models for new ideas

Minimum Eligibility

The applicant should have significant work experience (at least 7 years) in a technical or business-related role.

Tools Covered

Strategy and Leadership Certification Program

Product Strategy Certification issued by the C. T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston and Institute of Product Leadership.

Bauer College’s Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship ranked No. 2 in U.S. on the Top 25 Best Undergrad Programs for Entrepreneurs in 2019. (Top 10 since 2007; No. 1 in 2008, 2010 and 2011)

Course audited and approved by the Bauer College.

Preparing you for Global Certification

Strategy and Leadership Certification Program

Product Strategy Certification issued by the C. T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston and Institute of Product Leadership.

Course audited and approved by the Bauer College.

Syllabus

An executive leadership program created and curated by industry CXOs with case studies, simulations, real-life projects, assignments and personalized coaching.

Core Courses

STG401F - Product & Digital Strategy

Strategic Frameworks & Digital Transformation Models

■ Corporate Strategy, Business and Product strategy
■ Understanding of strategic frameworks
■ Opportunity analysis canvas

Competitive Advantage & Opportunity Analysis

■ Understanding the competition and their emergent strategies
■ Competitor analysis using strategy map
■ Competitive positioning

Product Strategy and Portfolio Management

■ Product portfolio expansion
■ Ansoff model of Product Market Growth
■ Models for Portfolio Analysis

Developing a Digital Business Strategy

■ Technology and platform strategy
■ Digital Transformation Models

Vision Roadmapping, KPIs & Metrics

■ Developing roadmaps, defining KPIs and metrics
■ Synthesizing and storytelling

FIN401F - Financial Acumen

Business Finance

■ Revenue Recognition & Cash Flow Basics
■ Building & P&L Management for Cloud / SaaS business
■ Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR) Capital Rationing & Payback

Financial Planning and Control

■ Preparing a Financial Plan
■ Forecasting Future cash flows and Financial Modelling

Product Finance

■ Revenue Models & Pricing
■ Cost & Profitability Metrics and Ratios

LDR401F - Communicating for Impact

Art of Storytelling

■ High Impact Communications
■ Presentation Structures like SMP, SIRF
■ Visual Presentations

Executive Presence

■ Leveraging Voice & Body Language
■ Networking Within & Outside

Advanced Communication Skills

■ Delivering Difficult News
■ Handling Tough Q&A
■ Cross Culture Communications

DAT401F - Data Informed Decision Making

Business Analytics for decision makers

■ Creating models for decision making
■ Cluster Analysis, Monte Carlo Models

Data Visualization

■ The art and science of data visualization
■ Storytelling with Data
Future Trends & Tools

LDR402F - Leading with Influence

Leading Self

■ Persuasion and Influence, Executive Presence
■ Building a personal brand through Thought Leadership
■ Personalized Assessments on Influentiality Index (II), Conflict Mgmt & Negotiation

Leading Teams

■ Leading People and Managing Globally Dispersed Teams
■ Negotiation, Influence Skills
■ Empowerment – Coaching, Training, Support and Motivation

Leading Change

■ Leading Disruptive Innovation & Change Management
■ Stakeholder Management & Creating Strategic Alignment

Elective Courses (Optional)

Electives are recommended add-on courses for those who want to have a broader coverage

Lean Entrepreneurship

Corporate Entrepreneurship & New Venture Creation

■ Growth and Scaling Strategies
■ Financing and Profitability
■ Identifying Stakeholders and gathering support
■ Business case & Revenue Modeling

Customer Development Model

■ Ideation and Developing the opportunity
■ Customer Insighting, Problem Discovery

Lean Methodology

■ Testing business ideas
■ Hypothesis Design & Experimentation
■ Building MVPs

Design Thinking and Customer Centricity

Design Thinking Approach

■ Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test
■ How to be a Design Thinker
■ Defining the Problem
■ Customer centric innovation

Empathy Frameworks & Techniques

■ Fly on the wall
■ What-How-Why
■ Roleplaying
■ Empathy mapping
■ Pain-Gain Analysis
■ Analogous empathy
■ Extreme users
■ Journey map
■ Error analysis

Ideation & Prototyping

■ Ideation Models – Impose constraints, Historical analysis, Power of Ten, Brainstorming
■ Prototyping Methods – Wireframes, Low Fidelity, High Fidelity, Scaled Prototyping, Storyboarding
■ Assumption & Hypothesis Design

Typical Learning Path for each course

Weekly Faculty Sessions

Plus Curated Video Lessons

Assignments

Self & Group Submissions

Capstone Project

Live Presentations with Jury

Certificate

Course Certificate

Average Days to complete each course

One Program, Ten Outcomes

Build a long term product vision and articulate a written strategy for the business.

Analyze new product opportunities to arrive at ‘go’ or ‘no-go’ conclusions efficiently.

Decide where to invest & what to shutdown at a portfolio level using new-age frameworks like GE McKinsey Model

Assess the pros and cons of various business models including SaaS, Freemium, Captive, Crowdsource for a given business

Develop a go-to-market strategy and pick the right product messaging and positioning for customer acquisition.

Build financial literacy to read, analyze and make decisions around financial statements like cash flow, P&L, balance sheets.

Build pricing, revenue and financial business models for new business ideas.

Communicate with Confidence, Influence others through better Storytelling.

Win more in high stakes negotiations - with exec mgmt team, with customers, with peers.

Build stronger people skills - managing high performers, coaching for excellence and stakeholder management.

Its very simple - those with actionable skills will get promoted faster. End to End Understanding of the business context, customer context and innovation context is key for decision making senior roles.

Amit Phadnis

Chief Digital Officer, GE Healthcare

Faculty and Mentors

Learn from Global Strategy and Business Leaders

Gaurav Mittal

Product Management Leader,
Intuit

Heera Ganjikota

Founder & Consultant,
Pivot Pipers Coaching & Consulting

Steve Caplow

Principal,
Caplow Associates

Pinkesh Shah

Chief Product Officer,
Qualys

Andrew Bean

Senior Associate,
Negotiation Partners

Dinesh Gopalan

Ex. Director of Finance,
Fidelity

Manjunath Subramanian

Sr. Principal Product Manager,
Oracle

Anand Shrivastava

Head of Product Management, Multicloud India,
Genesys

Industry Projects and Assignments

Learn through case studies, simulations(Harvard Business Publishing), real-life projects and assignments across industries.

Learning Outcomes:
To learn how to build, participate in, and lead effective teams, as well as to examine:
1. How teams can improve the way they make decisions.
2. How opposing interests and asymmetric information affect team dynamics.
3. How leaders shape team decision-making and performance in competitive and time-sensitive situations.
4. How teams and their leaders deal with tradeoffs between short-term task completion and longer-term team effectiveness.
5. How cognitive biases impair decision making.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Disruptive innovations often don't meet the needs of a firm's top customers, but managers need to keep an eye on whether these innovations could potentially meet the needs of other customers.
2. Sometimes the best opportunity for a product is not visible early on, and it takes time to develop. Closely watching the market and building strategy in an emergent way is helpful in these circumstances.
3. Managers must carefully allocate R&D funds based on the evolution of a firm's strategy.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn how firms can use the balanced scorecard to define strategy, implement strategy, and measure strategy execution.
2. Understand that a strategy is more likely to be effective if the initiatives implemented are synergistic with the strategy.
3. Explore how a good balanced scorecard can help companies take mid-course corrective actions.
4. Examine the advantages and disadvantages of measuring a small or large number of metrics.

Strategy & Leadership Certification Advantage

Learn Strategic Leadership skills from expert industry practitioners. Leverage the leadership development program by tapping into your leadership potential and expanding your influence and ability to solve strategic problems.

Globally Recognized Certification Program

Assurance of Skills v/s Knowledge

Unlike eLearning and online leadership courses, our program has continuous faculty interactions with feedback on projects & 1:1 personalized coaching that will build real skills.

Expensive doesnt mean Effective

Unlike Ivy League branded programs which will give you bragging rights, this will actually generate ROI and build YOUR brand.

Focussed on Career Acceleration

Unlike generic Executive MBA or MDP programs, focus is on building actionable skills for senior roles in the digital economy

Learning by Doing

Leadership training programs often helps build buzzwords but working on real-world industry challenges produces "evidence" of skills through a demonstrable portfolio

Career Impact

Fastest Way to Understand the nuances of end to end Product Design, UX & UI Design with simple and yet complete coverage on concepts, frameworks to interlock with Design teams

Jaya S, Product Manager, VMWareClass of 2018

Moving from a Graphic Design role in UX & Product Design, the course helped me gain confidence and structure for things i was already doing intuitively and adhocly.

Sudha M, Designer, RazorPayClass of 2019

Career Impact

Moving from a Graphic Design role in UX & Product Design, the course helped me gain confidence and structure for things i was already doing intuitively and adhocly.

Sudha M, Designer, RazorPayClass of 2019

Fastest Way to Understand the nuances of end to end Product Design, UX & UI Design with simple and yet complete coverage on concepts, frameworks to interlock with Design teams

Jaya S, Product Manager, VMWareClass of 2018

Tuhina Chattopadhyay

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout this journey. I am looking forward to embracing the new opportunities and challenges that come with this certification.

Shivam RaiShivam Rai

I’m deeply appreciative of the knowledge and insights gained during my journey at the Institute of Product Leadership, enhancing my skills in digital product leadership alongside a remarkable cohort and expert faculty.

Poornima Pujar

The International Certification in Strategy and Leadership has enriched me with invaluable insights and skills, all thanks to the exceptional faculty who generously shared their expertise.

Vinesh Kaladharan

A heartfelt thank you to all the tutors and the Institute for providing such a wonderful opportunity.

Neeraj Gupta

Learning is a never-ending journey. We should seize opportunities to learn from both academicians and practitioners, during work and beyond, inside the office and out, and through both in-person and online experiences. The pursuit of knowledge should never halt.

Rajendar Godara

I am confident that this program has enhanced my strategic thinking and will significantly contribute to improving the implementation of strategies within my organization, thanks to the practical insights and tools gained from the IPL team.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is the duration of the International Certificate in Strategy and Leadership Program?

The International Certificate in Strategy and Leadership Program spans 5 months and includes 5 intensive courses designed to equip you with essential skills in strategy, innovation, leadership, finance, and digital business.

Can I participate in the International Certificate in Strategy and Leadership Program without a background in strategy?

Absolutely! This program is designed for professionals from various backgrounds. Whether you’re in engineering, design, or business leadership, our program builds from foundational to advanced skills to help you excel in strategic leadership.

Is the International Certificate in Strategy and Leadership Program offered online or on-campus?

The Strategy and Leadership Program is offered exclusively online, allowing participants to engage in coursework and live sessions from anywhere in the world. This format provides flexibility and convenience, making it accessible to a wide range of professionals seeking to enhance their strategic leadership skills.

How much time commitment is required to successfully complete the Strategy and Leadership Program?

Learners typically dedicate 6-8 hours per week to coursework, which includes weekly faculty sessions, assignments, and projects to ensure a comprehensive learning experience.

What are the key outcomes of the Strategy and Leadership Program?

Graduates of the program will gain expertise in product vision, opportunity analysis, portfolio management, financial acumen, and business storytelling, empowering them to drive strategic decisions and lead effectively in their organizations.

Who teaches the Strategy and Leadership Program?

Learn from global business leaders and strategists who bring real-world experience and insights from top companies, ensuring you receive education that is both current and highly applicable.

What type of career support does the Strategy and Leadership Program offer?

Our program includes a dedicated Career Management Cell, monthly Skill Hackathons, and live presentations, all designed to prepare you for senior roles in the digital economy and enhance your career trajectory.

What is the application process for the Strategy and Leadership Program?

Interested candidates can apply through our website, and the account activation takes place within 10 minutes post-application. Payment plans are available to ensure the program is accessible to all admitted participants.

Who are the typical participants of the Strategy and Leadership Program?

Our participants are ambitious professionals from top companies like Adobe, Amazon, and Visa, who are looking to enhance their leadership skills and strategic thinking.

STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM WITH FOCUS ON PRODUCT STRATEGY

International Certificate in Strategy & Leadership

Become a high IMPACT LEADER with skills in STRATEGY INNOVATION LEADERSHIP FINANCE DIGITAL BUSINESS

Download the program brochure to make an informed decision

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5 months | 5 Courses

Weekly Faculty Sessions

Unlimited 1:1 Coaching

5 months | 5 Courses

Weekly Faculty Sessions

Unlimited 1:1 Coaching

Program Overview

Multiple Case Studies and Assignments | 5 Capstone Industry Projects

Unlimited 1:1 Mentorship with Mentors & Faculty

Learning Library with Toolkits, Frameworks & Templates

Focused New Age Curriculum for Digital Leaders

Weekly Faculty Sessions (Live)

Exclusive Career Management Cell with Hiring Talentathons

Networking Opportunities on Campus and Off Campus

Career Labs - Career Coaching & Mentoring, Portfolio Building, Interview Preparation

Multiple Case Studies and Assignments | 5 Capstone Industry Projects

Unlimited 1:1 Mentorship with Mentors & Faculty

Learning Library with Toolkits, Frameworks & Templates

Focused New Age Curriculum for Digital Leaders

Weekly Faculty Sessions (Live)

Exclusive Career Management Cell with Hiring Talentathons

Networking Opportunities on Campus and Off Campus

Career Labs - Career Coaching & Mentoring, Portfolio Building, Interview Preparation

Top Skills You Will Learn

Top Skills You Will Learn

Key Benefits

Minimum Eligibility

Preparing you for Global Certification

Download the program brochure to make an informed decision

Weekly Faculty Sessions

Assignments

Capstone Project

Certificate

One Program, Ten Outcomes

Assurance of Skills v/s Knowledge

Expensive doesnt mean Effective

Focussed on Career Acceleration

Learning by Doing

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