Leading an Innovation Organization

Some organizations will buy their innovation capability by partnering with new product design firms who provide the ideas, prototypes, and final models. The organization's employees work to implement the outside firm's ideas. Other organizations consider their own employees a key source of both ideas and implementation. These organizations work relentlessly to uncover the potential of their employees by helping the employees learn how to both improve and innovate on an ongoing, ever improving, basis. Learn to improve the business performance of your organization through structured new product and service introductions.



"Leadership is not about what you know - it's about what you do with what you know." James Belasco

This session includes:
Part 1: The Quest for Innovation

• The Innovation Imperative - confirming your company's need for innovation
• The Problem - innovation barriers and myths
• The Guaranteed Innovation System - best practice overview

Part 2:  Designing the System

• Priority - comparing innovation to other company imperatives
• Policy - review of current and need policies to support innovation
• Innovation Platoons - plan to organize your employee teams
• Process - review/develop current vision of Innovation Process

Part 3: Fuelling the System

• Problem Orientation - align innovation teams with current business needs
• Platforms - align innovation teams with market/technology targets
• Payback Metrics - develop your implementation scoreboard
• Innovation - What to do tomorrow morning and every morning thereafter

Who should attend?
Company leaders with their direct reports.



Speaker: John Canfield, independent trainer and facilitator
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