IIMA - IIM Ahmedabad
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Organizations of the Future
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This course equips you to design, lead, and transform high-performing organizations in a rapidly changing world. Over five immersive weeks, you’ll learn how to craft a powerful organizational purpose, manage diverse stakeholders, shape culture, redesign structures and processes for agility, and integrate diversity, ethics, and leadership into everyday practice. By completing the program, you will be able to develop future-ready workforce strategies, build inclusive and innovative teams, and create organizational blueprints that drive sustainable performance. Real-world readings, practice quizzes, discussion prompts, and graded assessments help you immediately apply concepts to your own context. What makes this course unique is its holistic and forward-looking approach: rather than treating design, culture, and people management as separate topics, it shows you how they interlock to produce adaptable, ethical, and resilient organizations. Whether you’re an emerging leader or a seasoned professional, you’ll finish with actionable tools and frameworks to future-proof your organization and your career.
Leading with a Digital Strategy
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To lead and strategize for the future now requires understanding digital technologies. Digital technologies are shaping businesses, operations, and families, changing how we organize. However, the paradox is that many people are struggling to lead in the changing times. How do organizations wade through the challenges and harness the opportunities presented by the ongoing digital age? The advent of advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence may make these challenges and opportunities even larger. This course developed by Professor Pankaj Setia at the Indian Institute of Management (IIMA) delves into the fundamental principles required to create digital strategies. The course is apt for students, professionals, and other enthusiasts intending to learn about creating digital strategies. When applied properly, digital strategy may revolutionize firm performance across industries like education, healthcare, commerce, and operations.
Transforming Life and Organizations in the Digital Age
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Why are we transforming digitally so rapidly? The course unravels deeper reasons why organizations and individuals are turning to digital technologies. As new technologies (from AI assistants to virtual reality) are emerging rapidly, there is new and exciting possibilities, but also overwhelming information. Are these technologies always empowering? The digital technologies are transforming every facet of life, from how we work to how we connect. However, we need to be equipped with the wisdom to use these appropriately, to understand their effects. In this course, Professor Pankaj Setia at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) develops the notion of Existential purpose that guides human evolution and growth. Using the neuroscientific foundations, this course equips you with the knowledge to transform both yourself and your organization for the digital future. This course is the culmination of Professor Setia's Digital Transformation series. It offers a unique perspective, focusing on the individual and how technology can help you thrive in the modern world. Enroll today and unleash the power of technology to create a more fulfilling and empowered life!
Strategy and Game Theory for Management
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Game theory explores the art of how people make decisions in situations where their choices affect each other. Learn core game theory frameworks through practical application-based learning to transform your and your organization’s performance. With the increasing complexity of today’s world, game theory offers valuable frameworks and tools to navigate uncertainty and establish scientific rigor for strategy. Today, game theory has applications across businesses (advertising, digital markets, mergers and acquisitions, cartels, innovation etc.) along with policy. This course on game theory is developed based on courses being offered at IIMA for the past several years by Prof Viswanath Pingali, an award-winning faculty member at IIMA. This course emphasizes an intuitive approach to game theory rather than focusing on quantitative techniques. This course helps you acquire a competitive edge through enhanced strategic thinking, structured problem-solving, and optimal decision-making in complex situations., The course also discusses behavioral economics insights, where applicable. We try and answer a few questions (not exclusive): (1) Why do price wars happen? (2) What is the problem of commons, and what are its implications for the climate change debate? (3) How do modern businesses operate and what are some implications? (4) Why is culture at firms and economies so difficult to change? (5) What is the unicorn mania that is dominating today’s conversation? (6) Why did some companies offer much larger warranty than the market norm? (7) Why is winning risky in markets with uncertainty and how could information asymmetry lead to market failure?
Supply Chain Digitization: Strategy and Design
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How do you scale and design high-performing supply chains? Digitization is a massive force that can enable you to accomplish the same. You need a supply chain strategy to align with your customer needs, but you also need a good design to operationalize. You need a vision, but you also need robust processes that align well with the strategy. Not just that, you need enablers that can link strategy with design – which are digital tools. This course is unique because it allows you to reflect upon a firm's supply chain strategy and it's link with appropriate design (both fulfillment nodes such as manufacturing and warehousing, and modes of transport such as shipping and trucking). Finally, it allows you to draw your own supply chain digital transformation canvas. The conceptual tools at appropriate places allow you to understand how to analyze the performance trade-offs, choose the right tools and decipher the mechanism that will enable you to decide the path to digitization.
Pre-MBA Statistics
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Welcome to the Pre-MBA Statistics course! By the end of this course, you will be able to describe how statistics can be used to summarize, analyze, and interpret data. This course introduces you to some aspects of descriptive and inferential statistics. You will learn to distinguish between various data types and describe the operations that you can execute with each type of data and the right tools to use. The course also discusses the concepts of probability, which form the backbone of statistical analysis. In particular, the course explores how data behaves and provides insight into its analysis. Further, it discusses how data can be sampled and the pros and cons of these methods. The course also delves deeper into the behavior of large data sets based on well-established statistical results. This also enables you to identify the pitfalls of incorrectly using statistical laws. Lastly, you will learn how to estimate population parameters based on limited data and check the correctness of hypotheses about populations from limited data. This course is open to students from all disciplines holding a bachelor’s degree. A rudimentary knowledge of Mathematics would help grasp the concepts better.
Leadership Skills
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Welcome to the Leadership Skills course! In our increasingly complex world, understanding the practice of leadership is critical. In simpler words, leadership is the practice of influencing people to meet the challenges that will enable them to achieve important individual and organizational goals. This course provides a foundation for leadership practice and aims to take you on a journey of self-discovery. You will also gain insight into building inner stability and developing your leadership skills. This is a beginner course designed for professionals from diverse work backgrounds. The course helps you lean on your experiences and strengthen your capacity to lead across boundaries, from any political or organizational position, with or without authority. The course will also enable you to learn important leadership skills, clarifying the relationships among key concepts such as definitions of leadership, self-management, authority, power, influence, politics, negotiations, change management, decision-making, and various leadership styles. This knowledge will provide you with a practical and coherent theoretical framework for applying and exercising leadership. Lastly, the course explores the challenge of managing the inevitable personal stresses and dangers of leading a team. The course draws from business management, philosophy, spirituality, history, literature, sports, communications, and psychology. To succeed in this course, you should have experience or a basic understanding of working in organizations.
Advanced Leadership Skills
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In today’s complex and rapidly evolving workplace, leadership is not just about authority, it is about how effectively you use power, build influence, and earn trust. This advanced leadership course explores the deeper dimensions of mindful leadership, power dynamics, influence strategies, and trust-building within organizations. Building on foundational concepts from the award-winning, world-famous, Leadership Skills course, this course equips you with practical, evidence-based tools and interdisciplinary insights to lead with intention, responsibility, and impact. You will examine how power operates in organizations, why some individuals gain influence while others do not, and how leaders can use power ethically to drive positive outcomes. Through a blend of business management, psychology, philosophy, communication, and real-world leadership examples, you will develop the capabilities needed to navigate high-risk, complex systems operating under uncertainty, manage career and leadership transitions, build a powerful personal brand and strong executive presence, and foster high-trust work environments. This course is designed for mid- to senior-level professionals, aspiring leaders, and managers who want to enhance their leadership effectiveness and build sustainable careers. Whether you are leading teams, managing change, or shaping organizational culture, this course will help you develop a modern leadership toolkit rooted in mindfulness, communication, and strategic influence. By the end of this course, you will be able to lead with clarity, credibility, and purpose, creating organizations that are resilient, ethical, and trust-driven.
How to Transform Digitally?
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How do firms lead successful digital transformations? The course answers the question. Developed by Professor Pankaj Setia at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), the course teaches the professor’s well-renowned DaWoGoMo© model. To teach the model, Professor Setia explains many different examples of digital transformations, some involving advanced implementations of artificial intelligence. The course presents and highlights ways to successfully transform various aspects of organizations, to create a digital organization. For learners, the course imparts a way to think deeply and become familiar with various aspects that they may have to navigate, to successfully create, champion, or engage with a digital transformation. Real-life cases and scenarios enhance the learning experience
Happiness Skills
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In a recent study of about 0.4 million individuals across 71 countries, it was found that close to 27 percent of people globally face mental health problems, and stress is said to be a major contributor to such problems. In India, the percentage is close to 30 percent. Surprisingly, more people in the UK, Australia, South Africa, and Brazil face mental distress than in India. This course is intended as a guide for individuals to manage themselves better, be emotionally stable, in touch with their inner selves, and be happy. Building on evidence from psychology and neuroscience, the course directly ties in with the immense need to help individuals build the capacity for harmony, emotional stability, and a sense of meaning in their lives. The course uses mindfulness as the fundamental building block of self-discovery and self-awareness. One of the unique aspects of this course is that it integrates ideas presented in research as well as the famous Indian wisdom storehouses such as the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga sutras, and the Dhammapada. The course aims to help participants learn lessons in the realms of values, self-management, health, emotional control, and authentic living – crucial elements of a happy and meaningful life.