A new breed of design leader can help companies unleash their business potential with meaningful innovations.
In this complex world awash with technology, fast-moving socio-cultural changes, and ultra-competitive business challenges, executives are asked to unlock bigger and better changes in business performance.
Nowadays, your ultimate goals are envisioning meaningful innovations, leading human-centric transformations and engaging employees through responsible purposes.
That’s why we’ve made our international Master in Strategic Design for Innovation and Transformation (SDIT), which was jointly developed by us at POLIMI GSoM and POLI.design. With this programme, we set designers and managers up with the skills needed to tackle these complex modern challenges.

Platform Thinking GYM aims to support professionals in assessing platforms as a tool to foster innovation in their firms. In particular, it supports participants in identifying assets - may be data, know-how, relationships, or physical assets - that may actually be idle and be used to fuel an innovation project based on platform mechanisms.

The Design Sprint Gym aims to support professionals in enhancing the role of divergence and convergence in creative processes, supporting the rapid generation of new solutions, reducing design uncertainty through prototyping.

The Design Thinking Gym aims to support professionals in understanding the value of design in business, stimulating the synergy between analytical and intuitive thinking, knowing techniques and tools to support creativity.

The Meaningful Direction Gym aims to support professionals in the generation of radically innovative scenarios, the enhancement of individual and collective creativity, the visualization and communication of new strategic directions.

Platforms have challenged some of the basic axioms of business.
Companies like Uber, Airbnb or Spotify have been able to disrupt entire markets in a very short time. Many believe that only a start-up can leverage these logics to innovate. We believe that the future of platforms lies with companies that will be able to see the value and bring it into their world.

Specialized masters are master programs focusing on specific areas of management aimed to provide the candidate with the precise academic and theoretical framework to work in a specific management function.

EXECUTIVE MBAs and MBAs are degrees designed to develop the skills needed by managers and entrepreneurs to accelerate their professional growth.

The Executive Project Management Pathway aims to develop and strengthen the skills you need to manage a variety of projects: radical, incremental, industrial, organizational, traditional, and agile.

Given the volume of initiatives, the pathway will provide you with the three macro-skills that underpin the project management model: technical planning and control skills, managerial and organizational skills, and behavioral skills.

The Pathway first focuses on three core competencies for those who intend to promote and lead a creative approach to innovation management:
- Design Thinking, i.e., the ability to enhance the analytical and creative dimension of the different phases of the design of a new product/service: from needs analysis to the identification of technological opportunities, through architectural design and market launch.
- Experience Design and Service, that is, the ability to design experiences that are not only functional, but also enjoyable and meaningful for people using innovative products and services.
- Design Sprint, i.e., the ability to accelerate design processes through the adoption of innovative experimental attitudes aimed at continuous dialogue with the recipients of innovation.

The Pathway allows you to acquire 3 fundamental skills for those aspiring to play the role of an Innovation Manager:
- Innovation Leadership, which is the ability to lead innovation processes and engage your team in innovation projects, developing a clear and shared vision.
- Innovation Strategy, which is the ability to express an original strategic vision, outline new competitive scenarios, evaluate brand impacts, manage relationships with creative resources and key stakeholders both within and outside your organization.
- Design Thinking, which is the ability to leverage the analytical and creative dimensions in different stages of designing a new product/service, from needs analysis to identifying technological opportunities, from architectural design to market launch.