Diploma in Strategy and Innovation (Diploma)

The Executive Diploma in Strategy & Innovation has been expertly designed for business leaders and senior managers. Study at Warwick Business School at The Shard, and learn how to make strategic recommendations with confidence.

Course Overview

The Executive Diploma in Strategy & Innovation is founded on the latest thinking and best practice, bringing our strength and reputation in the fields of strategy and innovation to help executives navigate the long journey successfully and realise their strategic organisational and personal potential. You will adopt new strategic approaches to company direction and decision-making in order to build successful business models which exploit new opportunities, learn to develop robust but flexible plans for strategic execution, and take new approaches to stakeholder management, governance and funding.

Based at WBS London, The Shard, and studied over four, four-day modules, the Warwick Executive Diplomas are designed to deliver the maximum organisational impact without you having to leave work for extended periods.

Teaching

Peer networks and debate: Questioning, discussion and debate with a support network of peers as well as truly interactive relationships with teaching faculty
Bespoke distance learning platform: Inter-modular support from the my.wbs platform, which is used to deliver our Distance Learning MBA
Guest speakers and practitioners: relevant and relate-able speakers from industry and practice will feature within each individual module
Personal development and action learning: Utilising reflective practice, psychometric tools and analysis as well as learning through doing.

Assessment

You will be required to complete written assessments, plus a further strategic project. All assignments are designed to be directly related to your own organisational context and challenges. In order to gain the qualification of Postgraduate Diploma awarded by the University of Warwick, you will need to attend all four taught modules, and pass the assessment in each module and your project.

Careers

The programme is 12-months long and has a strong focus on personal development and action learning. Supported by a range of highly effective personal development tools, the outcome for you is to understand your own leadership approach and future potential.

If you are interested in undertaking an MBA in order to benefit from a broader range of applied business learning topics, on completion of the Warwick Executive Diploma in Strategy & Innovation you will be eligible to receive credits towards the Warwick MBA.