Executive Health Innovation Management Programme

Challenging trends

Major forces are slowly reshaping healthcare into a truly 21st century data-driven, patient-centric paradigm. These involve a convergence of technology, organisational and policy trends. Given the mounting demands on health services from megatrends such as an ageing population and “known-unknowns” such as climate change, standing still is not an option. Around the world, health care leaders need to rethink the way services are designed and delivered. New thinking is being driven by four basic interconnected trends:

• Growing digital connectivity (e.g. remote care, wearables, internet of things)
• Revolution in data availability and data analytics
• Focus on value rather than cost (e.g. value-based healthcare, risk sharing payment models)
• “The new patient” - informed, empowered patients and co-production of innovations

While they offer huge opportunities, this landscape poses challenges to different players in the health system. Technology developers and suppliers, healthcare funders and providers, policy-makers – and us as healthcare users – need to respond. Relationships in value chains are being reshaped, new ideas about wellness are emerging. A different healthcare ecosystem is being built.

Throughout the course we examine how these forces play out at two levels:

• Coordinating innovation and change across the value chain
• Managing and strategising around innovation

Who should attend?

EHIMP attracts participants from all areas of the healthcare value chain and guides them towards greater innovative and entrepreneurial thinking to plan and deliver health services to meet emerging global needs. The programme is aimed at health leaders who can affect innovation in their workplaces, such as executives who are at or progressing towards C-suite level at a health provider, authority or insurer, or health professionals in leading roles.

The programme is also targeted at policymakers and senior leaders from health industries such as pharma, med-tech, and IT, who are influential in the sector's innovation.

Learning objectives

• Understand the emerging healthcare challenges, the complexities of health systems, how the health sector differs from other industries in relation to innovation needs and processes
• Engage with and challenge participants from different business backgrounds and cultures across the health sector to gain new insight into your business or organisation
• Identify opportunities for innovation and change within and across health sector organisations, including your own
• Improve your innovative and entrepreneurial thinking

Programme content

Kick-off session (virtual)

• Introduction to the programme, executive challenges and your learning journey
• Introduction to your peers - virtual networking
• Introduction to Individual online coaching sessions

Module 1 - At Imperial College London (on-campus)

• Intro to healthcare value chains and ecosystems
• Megatrends and future scenarios – scene-setting, managing risks, identifying opportunities
• Disruptive innovation and the tech giants
• Data analytics and healthcare
• Corporate venturing and intrapreneurship
• Digital Transformation – what does it mean for you?
• Start-ups, scaling up, innovation support network London’s health innovation ecosystem

Executive Challenge Group Work and Presentations (virtual)

In addition to the lectures and case studies, the programme includes an Executive Challenge component where participants bring their own relevant strategic entrepreneurship or operational business challenge. The objective is to maximise the value of the activity for each individual participant by providing action-oriented and tailored recommendations, networking opportunities, and support over the course of the whole programme

The Executive Challenge is a structured peer-advisory approach that leverages the collective business experience of participants to provide customised recommendations and practical solutions for your strategic or personal challenge in a confidential and trust-based environment.

Module 2 - At Copenhagen Business School (on-campus)

• Digital transformation of the Medtech value chain
• Entrepreneurial innovations in the value chain of healthcare
• Value based health care from the perspective of healthcare providers and tech suppliers
• Putting patients at the heart of innovation
• The myths and realities about future demand for healthcare
• Hospitals and the reorganisation of patient pathways. The Karolinska Case
• The role of insurance companies in healthcare innovation. Dutch case.
• Integrated care and innovations in primary care