Creating Value through Innovation
End of May I am leading a course on Innovation at IEDC‘s General Management Program. We are having an awesome new, 2011, generation of the GMP’s. I am looking forward to meet this extraordinary group of managers who are moving from a functional to strategic level, talented middle and senior managers, and entrepreneurs, from all over the world. My goal will be to ignite discussions and knowledge exchange on an area, which I believe is the most important organizational capability and the core of each company. Below is the direction of where I will be steering the course. I am looking forward to learn from my course’ participants.
Creating Value through Innovation
The main objective of this course is to develop an understanding of contemporary innovation processes and the issues surrounding it. Innovation lies in the core of any successful enterprise, however, is too often considered by managers as serendipitous and black boxy. We will start with clear outline of the stages of innovation process, strategies, concerns and organizational-design-to-do’s for each. Participants will learn what the most common obstacles for innovation are and how to successfully tackle them. We will look into issues such as how to put contemporary IT to work for us, why and how to unleash the experimentation in companies, how to grow an organizational culture that will foster innovation, and when to innovate business models. Participants will be actively discussing concrete innovation related issues (and designing organizational solutions) that are most relevant for them.