MODULE | Vilnius | 13-14 June 2025
Moonshot Thinking: from Disruption to Competitive Advantage in the age of AI
With Ivan Bofarull | ESADE, Spain
Overview
In an era of relentless disruption — fueled by AI and rapid industry shifts — organizations that cling to conventional wisdom risk obsolescence. This module challenges leaders to break free from linear thinking and embrace moonshot thinking: a bold, 10X approach that turns disruption into opportunity. By shifting from reactive adaptation to proactive reinvention, we’ll explore how to cultivate this mindset and build the structures needed to transform ambitious visions into sustained competitive advantage.
Mastering Moonshot Thinking
The Moonshot Thinking course is designed to push participants beyond conventional problem-solving, fostering a mindset that embraces disruption as an opportunity. Through interactive discussions, strategic reflection, and real-world challenges, participants will cultivate the ability to think exponentially, anticipate industry shifts, and drive breakthrough innovation.
How You Will Learn
Course Structure
- Action Learning: Collaborate in groups to analyze and solve real-life business challenges.
- Challenge-Based Learning: Tackle defined challenges and develop strategic responses.
- Moonshot Thinking: Cultivate radical creativity to address complex, disruptive problems.
- Anticipating Disruption in the Age of AI – Identify AI-driven shifts, recognize blind spots, and turn uncertainty into opportunity..
- Applying a Moonshot Mindset – Move from recognizing disruption to leveraging it through case studies, discussions, and corporate longevity insights.
- Unlocking Your Advantage – Develop leadership skills and strategic tools to drive transformation in an AI-powered world.
After this course you will be able to:
- Analyze disruption and AI-driven transformation to identify strategic dilemmas and leadership challenges.
- Reframe risk in innovation as a driver of long-term value and growth.
- Apply insights from corporate longevity research to navigate uncertainty and sustain competitive advantage.
- Develop and implement moonshot thinking to challenge conventional problem-solving and drive breakthrough innovation.
- Utilize strategic frameworks and mechanisms to anticipate disruption and create asymmetric advantages.
- Enhance decision-making capabilities to lead transformation in an era of AI-driven change.
Price of the module – 2300 EUR
Limited seats available
Faculty
Ivan Bofarull
Chief Innovation Officer, Teaching Prof., ESADE- Thought leader in disruptive innovation, advisor, and speaker.
- Designed and taught disruptive innovation courses for senior executives across Silicon Valley, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and Europe.
- Worked with top global companies including Porsche, HP, Iberdrola, UBS, Biogen, and Repsol.
- Academic director of “Moonshot Thinking for Entrepreneurs” — a flagship leadership program in partnership with MIT, sponsored by Caixabank.
- Author of Moonshot Thinking (3rd edition), recognized as the “Best Innovation Book of the Year” by SDLI and a “Top Pick” by OpenAI.
- Strategy advisor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and collaborator with institutions like Singularity University, Minerva University, and Tecnológico de Monterrey.
- Frequent speaker at major events including Singularity Summit, Mobile World Congress, and YPO.
- Recipient of the “Educational Innovation” award from ESADE and listed by Forbes as a “Top Futurist.”
Interested in the module? Apply!
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ApplyInterested in the module? Contact:
Dovilė Vyčinė
Director, Business Development
+370 653 95 959
dovile@bmiinstitute.com
