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Mastering Innovation: Strategies, Challenges, and Breakthroughs

Leading Innovation: From Strategy to Implementation

During this day, we focus on the effective leadership of innovation. What are the key challenges in the innovation process, from strategy to implementation?

What are the main characteristics of management models for innovation? We discuss recent advancements, including stage gates agile hybrid models, design thinking, and lean startup methods. We dive into the common implementation problems and focus on tactics to build momentum in your organisation to embrace innovation.

Key learning goals

  1. Acquainting yourself with the key strategic considerations for innovation projects and how to effectively develop a concrete strategy for innovation.
  2. Understand the characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses of established processes for managing innovation, such as stage gates, agile/scrum models, design thinking, and lean startup.
  3. Discover the most thorny implementation problems and effective tactics to overcome them.

Advantages

  • Gain concrete, actionable insights on how to develop innovation processes that fit your organisation.
  • Reflect on your own strengths and weaknesses in developing an innovation strategy and implementing it in your organisation.
  • Acquire state-of-the-art knowledge on innovation strategy and implementation processes without falling prey to simplistic, one-fits-all ‘hypes’.

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