Managing Innovation
Optimizing the Power of New Ideas

In this two-day program, participants will come to see the management of innovation as 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, positioning, or paradigm.

Participants will learn to incorporate innovation management skills and processes into their jobs by absorbing the results of research on exceptionally innovative organizations and put that knowledge to work through structured activities, cases, and skill practice. They will work through an innovation opportunity by simulating a stage-gate* process and will practice many of the skills and tools used by the most successful innovation managers.

During the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to assess their own skills and the culture, structure, and processes relating to innovation in their organization, comparing them to the best practices of benchmarked organizations.

Participants will learn from benchmarked companies some of the key dilemmas encountered in the process of managing innovation and will develop solutions that they can put into practice. They will create a plan to move their own skills forward and to create a more innovation-supportive structure and culture within their organizations and teams.

Objectives and Outcomes

Participants will:

• Describe how innovation could benefit their team or business unit and the wider organization
• Identify organizational and individual innovation capabilities and barriers
• Set up and run a simple step-by step process for introducing value-creating innovations
• Undertake a structured program of self-development to improve their innovation management skills
• Assess when and where innovation is needed and when other approaches would be more useful
• Apply selected best practices in innovation to their organization

Who Should Participate?

Managers who see fostering innovation as a part of their role, individual contributors whose work involves facilitating innovation, and senior managers who lead or sponsor innovation as part of their responsibilities.

This research-based, experiential and practical program was developed jointly with David Francis, Ph.D, Deputy Director of the University of Brighton’s Centre for Research in Innovation Management (CENTRIM) in the United Kingdom.

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Managing Innovation: Optimizing the Power of New Ideas ™ is a copyrighted program of Barnes & Conti Associates, Inc.

 

*Stage-Gate® is a registered trademark of the Product Development Institute Inc. We use the term only in its general sense of a phased development process that provides alternating stages and gates.