Develop and promote a disruptive mindset in your organization that supports innovation and sustainable growth

Highlights

• You will learn how to use Blue Ocean strategies in your role

• Use the Stage-Gate process for the long term innovation

• Implement the 8 functions of innovation leadership

• Practice innovation tools, frameworks and methods

Key Competences

• Driving innovation projects

• Change management

• Design thinking

• Risk management

• Innovation project management strategies

The Innovation in a VUCA World is a hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former management experience in international companies.

The programme is structured in 3 parts, each designed to ensure an effective training experience:

• Pre-attendancePre-workshop participant on-line questionnaire
• Innovation self-assessment test
• Reading of selected relevant articles
• Participants to prepare an innovation project to individually work on during the workshop

• During attendanceHighly interactive presentations 
• Best practice sharing and peer learning
• Group discussion and hands-on work in syndicate groups
• Practise of innovation tools, frameworks and methods
• Individual work on own innovation project
• Post-attendancePost-workshop audit after 6 weeks
• Receive additional reading material
• Coaching by MCE faculty (optional: additional fee)

9 Programme Modules:

1 – Introduction

• Definitions of innovation and the importance for organizations

???????• VUCA world realities and related innovation challenges

???????• Framing your innovation challenge

2 – Roads to innovation

• Innovation myths

???????• Innovation language

???????• Key success factors and obstacles to innovation 

3 – Strategic directions

• Innovation strategies: linking innovation and business strategy

???????• Dealing with risk in a VUCA world

???????• Protecting innovation

???????4 – Innovation models

• The innovation radar: Areas of innovation

???????• Blue ocean strategy

???????• Design thinking

???????• Outcome driven innovation

5 – Sources for innovation

• Connecting with your customers

???????• Ideation techniques and idea screening 

???????• Open versus closed innovation

???????• Challenging industry conventions

 6 – Innovation processes

• The innovation process framework

???????• Managing innovation portfolios

???????• The long road: Stage-Gate process

???????• Innovation project management

 7 – Innovation resources

• Resource mapping: human and financial resources

???????• External innovation resources

???????• Stakeholder analysis

 8 – Innovation organization and structure

???????• Organization types: weaving innovation into business 

???????• Communication and physical environment

???????• Innovation networks 

???????• Innovation incubators

 9 – Making innovation work in the VUCA world

• Eight functions of innovation leadership

???????• Developing an innovation culture

???????• Making innovation work: executing innovation

???????• Performance metrics

???????• Innovation audit

You are a senior manager with 5+ years experience leading teams. You lead your organization's innovation challenges, and you want to get an innovation toolkit to drive new initiatives and projects.

Typical Participants:

• Senior Managers