This one day workshop focusses on developing the skills to manage innovative initiatives effectively.
The management of innovation is a powerful and practical way to create value by selecting and exploiting the best new ideas—both for improvement and for radical change in products, processes and positioning.
The workshop is based on research at CENTRIM (The Centre for Research in Innovation Management), identifying the best practices of successfully innovative organisations and leaders. You will learn to incorporate innovation management skills and processes into your job by absorbing the results of research on exceptionally innovative organisations and put that knowledge to work through structured activities, cases, and skill practice. You will simulate an “innovation journey” and practice many of the skills and tools used by the most successful innovation managers.
During the workshop, you will have the opportunity to assess your own skills and the culture, structure, and processes relating to innovation in your organisation, comparing it to the best practices of benchmarked organisations. You will create a plan to move your own skills forward and to create a more innovation-supportive structure and culture within your organisation and team. You will describe best practices in innovation management, reflect systematically on your own strengths and weaknesses as a manager of innovation, identify organisational innovation capabilities and barriers and develop an innovation agenda that can be implemented following the workshop.
