Online MBA Residential: Strategic Change

Organizational Design for Disruption

UC Davis Graduate School of Management welcomes our MBA@UCDavis Online MBA program students to an in-person residential in Davis, CA.

Instructor: Elizabeth Pontikes
Topic: Strategic Change

In the modern economy, market change is rapid as competition becomes fiercer, customers more fickle, and technology a key differentiator across industries – from automobiles to media. To compete, firms must disrupt or respond to disruption. The central tenet of this course is that effective strategic change is rooted in having entrepreneurial elements in a firm’s organization design that drives strategy discovery for successful pivots. Executives must condition employees to experiment and discover, establish pathways for novel ideas to take hold and flourish, and retain the ability to pivot even at the highest levels. Firms with entrepreneurial design for strategy discovery will develop the capacity to both cultivate new ideas and successfully integrate promising acquisitions to support strategic change.