Strategic Thinking for the CXO: Platforms, Ecosystems and AI-Driven Strategies
An executive education programme preparing leaders to anticipate disruption, design adaptive strategies and execute them with confidence.
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Dates:
Duration:
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Online
26 Feb-16 Apr 2026
6 weeks (4-6 hours per week)
£2,100
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Online
Dates:
26 Feb-16 Apr 2026
Duration:
6 weeks (4-6 hours per week)
Fees:
£2,100
Overview
As organisations navigate a world shaped by shifting market dynamics, geopolitical and sustainability pressures, ecosystem-based competition and advances in artificial intelligence (AI), leaders must operate under heightened uncertainty and complexity. Succeeding in this environment demands strategic fluency – the ability to challenge assumptions, rethink competitive boundaries and make sound decisions under complex conditions.
Through an immersive curriculum, hands-on learning, expert guidance and real-life examples, including Apple and LEGO, this programme equips you to connect strategic foresight with practical execution. Guided by Cambridge Judge Business School faculty, you will learn to integrate AI, sustainability and broader strategic considerations in your decision-making, preparing yourself to lead with clarity and purpose while turning disruption into long-term opportunity.
Benefits and career impact
Reinvigorate your strategic thinking, ensuring your organisation’s strategy can withstand uncertainty and build competitive advantage.
- Understand the real forces shaping your competitive landscape through strategic frameworks and spot threats and opportunities before your competitors do.
- Use AI and emerging technologies not as buzzwords, but as real strategic levers to make sharper, faster, strategic decisions.
- Design scalable growth strategies across platforms, ecosystems and industries to create sustainable value.
- Move from rigid planning to adaptive strategies to anticipate disruption and turn uncertainty into long-term advantage.
- Turn strategy into execution that moves the organisation, aligning leaders, teams and resources around outcomes.
- Develop the skills to ensure long-term growth and business continuity for your organisation.
- Prepare your leadership to steer through global disruption – pandemics, environmental disasters or geopolitical events.
- Implement adaptable corporate strategies and ensure your organisation is primed to make an impact in turbulent times.
This programme is being delivered in collaboration with Emeritus.
Programme content
Immerse yourself in a research-based and highly practical learning environment that combines case studies and real-world business thinking to expand your strategic thinking.
Module 1: Strategy in a disruptive world
- Understand the fundamentals of strategic thinking, and explore why traditional models fall short in today’s fast-changing business environment.
Module 2: Ecosystems, platforms and competition
- Explore how organisations compete and grow within the platform economy by designing strategies that create and capture value across interconnected networks.
Module 3: Generating new business models for competitive advantage
- Explore how leading organisations design innovative business models, sustain competitive advantage and cultivate the strategic agility and serendipity mindset needed to recognise and act on unexpected opportunities for innovation and long-term growth.
Module 4: AI and data-driven strategy
- Examine how AI and data reshape strategic thinking, decision-making and organisational performance.
Module 5: Strategic growth and corporate strategy
- Navigate how organisations achieve strategic growth and build corporate advantage in a disruptive and evolving market landscape.
Module 6: Strategy design and execution
- Build expertise in strategy design and implementation to translate strategic intent into effective action.
How you learn: Online
Our fully online programmes allow you the greatest level of flexibility as to where and when you study. Structured across 8 weekly components through a mix of curated videos, live webinars with Cambridge faculty plus Q&A sessions with Live Chat, assignments and discussions, take advantage of individual support from programme Leaders and a dedicated Programme Support Team.
Who attends
This programme is designed for leaders seeking to achieve strategic goals and drive organisational growth in a rapidly changing environment. It is ideal for:
- CXOs and senior leaders looking to understand and manage the impact of disruption and leverage technology to drive long-term transformation.
- Entrepreneurs and business heads who want to design adaptive business models, reimagine growth strategies and compete in dynamic markets.
- Consultants, advisers and board members aiming to apply proven frameworks to guide strategic decision-making and strengthen resilience across organisations.
Faculty and speakers
Learn from our world-class faculty who bring fresh insights from their leading-edge research into all of our Executive Education programmes.
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (University Community and Engagement)
PhD (McGill University)
Professorial Fellow of St Edmund’s College
PhD (University of Cambridge)
Why Cambridge Judge Business School?
Related programmes
Strategic Thinking for the CXO belongs to our Strategy-topic executive education programmes. Here is a selection of related programmes:
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Integrating Risk into Strategic Decision-Making
Expand your mindset beyond traditional areas of risk, learning to respond dynamically to economic volatility, change and digital disruption, and improving your ability to thrive in the face of complex threats and opportunities.
Business Analytics and AI: Decision-Making Using Data
Drive your organisation’s future by harnessing the power of data, gaining the tools to build expertise in analysis, trend-spotting and bias-avoidance.
Contact us
If you have any questions or would like to have a chat about this programme and how it could benefit you or your organisation, please get in touch with the Open Programmes team:
