Innovate for Success

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – NACS recognizes that innovation often drives retail success. Its new NACS Innovation Leadership Program at MIT will give retail leaders the opportunity to directly apply state-of-the-art methods and frameworks to their businesses. The program runs November 3-8 at the Sloan School of Management on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. Generous endowments from PDI, Shell and Gilbarco Veeder-Root make the program financially accessible to all retailers.

“With disruption happening all around us, we can no longer rely on innovative products, service and technology for our success. Our people are our greatest asset. Investing in their leadership will pay dividends for your company and the convenience industry at large,” said NACS President and CEO Henry Armour.

Building on MIT’s prestigious reputation and innovative culture, this program combines research-based management frameworks with practical hands-on experiences and offers networking opportunities for top-tier convenience industry leaders. The program will provide convenience leaders the opportunity to:

• Learn how to build an innovation culture,
• Recognize and overcome mental models that inhibit innovation,
• Leverage the principles and processes of design thinking,
• Identify choices for responding to disruptive competition,
• Develop digital business models,
• Apply innovative methods for designing work and operating models that engage employees/create competitive advantage, and
• Experience first-hand MIT’s entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem. 

Registration is now open for the NACS Innovation Leadership Program.