Managing Innovation Two Day Program
Driving Ideas from Strategic Initiative to Value Creation™
Innovation is one of the keys to competitive advantage. People in many functional areas of organisations are responsible for designing or improving products, processes, and systems.
One of the most pressing business challenges is keeping up with the pace of global innovation. To be competitive, organizations must create value by developing, selecting, and exploiting the best new ideas for improvement or radical change in products, processes, positioning, platform, or paradigm. In this program, you will discover and practice the mindsets and skill-sets needed to increase both the quality and quantity of Innovation. As a result, you will be able to lead and manage a successful “Innovation Journey” from a strategic initiative to the creation of value.
Managing Innovation™ is based on the research of David Francis, Ph.D. at the Centre for Research in Innovation Management of the University of Brighton in the U.K and is licensed through Barnes and Conti in the US. The program offers the opportunity to learn and apply essential skills and processes for innovation management and leadership.
As a participant, you will:
• Learn best practices in innovation management.
• Analyse and develop mindsets and skill-sets for the innovation journey.
• Reflect systematically on your own strengths and weaknesses as a manager of innovation.
• Identify organizational innovation capabilities and barriers.
• Participate in and facilitate a real “Innovation Journey.”
• Create an “Innovation Agenda” that can be implemented following the program.
Leave with a Participant's Manual that enables you to take Innovation back to your workplace.
Suitable for: People Managers looking to develop the mindset, skill-set, tools, and processes needed to build a culture of innovation through their people.
Facilitated by: James Merchant
James is a Specialist Innovation Program Partner with Lighthouse. With a strategic approach to design thinking and innovation, James helps individuals, teams and large corporations to build capability for overcoming a range of challenges, such as: business disruption, business growth, culture change and future proofing with creative skills.
Prior to consulting, James established and led the innovation program for a major General Insurer, where he facilitated many projects, both internally and with major business partners. James also has over 20 years experience in senior management positions within General Insurance, leading people, managing performance, managing stakeholders and driving change to ensure competitive advantage.
James has the ability to help people research for discovery, generate human centred insights and ideas, and quickly apply them commercially within a corporate context. He is a relaxed and confident workshop and project facilitator who is comfortable operating at all levels across an organisation.
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