An Intensive 10-day Training Course
Disruptive Innovation and
Solutions in Change (D.I.S.C.)
Scheduled Dates
Classroom
| 08 - 19 Dec 2025 | Dubai - UAE | $11,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 25 May - 05 Jun 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $11,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 21 Sep - 02 Oct 2026 | London - UK | $11,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 23 Nov - 04 Dec 2026 | Tokyo - Japan | $13,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 07 - 18 Dec 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $11,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
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Why Choose this Training Course?
Disruption and Change are happening and managers on all levels need to be prepared; This highly focused PetroKnowledge training course targets several critical areas of doing Business with a Multi-pronged, Mental Cognitive Mapping for Innovative Just-In-Time, Disruption in Business Logic.
“Working harder” was never the answer, “Working Smarter” answered the call.
NOW!!
“Thinking Faster” is needed most of all.
The majority of managers are university taught and developed further with on-the job training; although these are absolutely necessary most of these managers are too slow to act in times of JIT Change and Disruption.
MODULES
This PetroKnowledge training course is split into two modules:
MODULE I - LEAD through Disruptive Times
MODULE II - Disruptive Innovation
Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a two-week training course.
What are the Goals?
By the end of this training course, participants will learn to:
- Set goals for Vertical Development within Rank & File Employees
- Create ownership of development to well supported innovative staff
- Develop collective leadership along with individual guidance
- Set focus on innovation in several leadership development areas
- Create Mental Strength and Fortitude in Management for uncertain time ahead.
- Utilize Group & Individual Leadership tools
- Understand NLP & Body Language Skills
- Develop Interpersonal & Intrapersonal Skills
- Create Cognitive Ownership Transfer Skills
- Master Speech Pattern Awareness Skills
Who is this Training Course for?
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Upper, Middle & Lower Management
- Human Resource Personnel
- Finance Department
- Operations
- Warehousing & Logistics
- Floor managers
- Stock Controllers
- General Staff / Supervisors and Change leaders
Daily Agenda
Module 1: LEAD through Disruptive Times
Day One to Day Five: Topics to be Covered:
- Introductions & Leadership Learning Styles
- leadership Mentoring & Mindset
- Management To Leadership To Management
- Leadership in uncertain Times
- Mental Cognitive Mapping
- Just In Time Logic skills
- Communication with Action & Words
- Fast Problem-Solving and Mental mapping
- Fast Decision making on the spot
- Dealing with unexpected frustration
- Understanding measured risk
Module 2: Disruptive Innovation
Day Six: The Strategic Significance of Innovation
- Why innovate? - The strategic relevance of innovation
- Complexity and non-linearity in 21st century business development
- When and how disruptive innovation was first introduced
- Differences between enabling innovation and disruptive innovatio
- When is a disruptive innovation, an appropriate strategic approach?
- What can we learn from the experience of successful disruptors?
- Deciding which innovation – enabling or disruptive?
Day Seven: The Concept of Disruptive Innovation
- Assessing the potential impact of a disruptive innovation
- Innovation in product and service
- Innovation in supply chain design and relationships
- Innovation in business model and organisational structure
- Corporate incubation – how to upscale a viable disruptive innovation?
- Preparing your teams for disruptive innovation
Day Eight: How Does Disruptive Innovation Work?
- Analysing and evaluating risk – disrupt or be disrupted?
- Monitoring and managing risk – decisions on the next stage
- Guidelines on the implementation of disruptive innovations
- Disruptive innovation in new product development
- Disruptive innovation via the research laboratory
- Disruptive innovation in organisational development
- Aligning and integrating innovation with established practice
Day Nine: Getting Organised for Disruptive Innovation
- Good ideas can come from anywhere
- Processes and mechanisms for generating new ideas
- Use of data mining to generate innovative ideas
- Internal/external open bidding as a source of ideas
- Feasibility studies as a means of screening for viability
- Has innovation become a core competency?
- The ten elements of the “innovation spectrum”
Day Ten: Managing Disruptive Innovation
- Ideation and the process approach to innovation
- Creating an innovation culture in your team
- Acquisitions, networks, and alliances as disruptive mechanisms
- Activity integration or separation following disruptive innovations
- Financial justification and methods for disruptive innovations
- Measuring the impact of disruptive innovations
- Evaluating our ability to implement disruptive innovations
- Overview and personal action plans
Certificate
- On successful completion of this Training Course / Online Training Course, a PetroKnowledge Certificate / E-Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.
