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The business world is changing rapidly. To stay ahead, organisations need to be ready to disrupt, transform – and roll out new business ideas rapidly. They need to make innovation part of business as usual.
This three-day programme introduces you to the tools you need to design, implement and manage an innovation strategy that leads to business growth. You live and learn what it means to be an inspiring innovation leader – so you can leap into embedding an innovative culture in your organisation.
Detailed programme
We start from the foundation of theoretical concepts and insights, and then we inspire you to apply these concretely to your own business situation to develop an innovation strategy – with a focus on practicality – for your organisation. The programme ‘Leading Innovation’ is comprised of 3 modules:
MODULE 1: INNOVATION AMBITION – DEVELOPING YOUR VISION
- Identify your corporate innovation ambition
- Explore the impact of living in times of exponential change
- Identify ways to make your company, product or service more relevant
- Dive into the dynamics that lead to disruptive, industry-shaking innovations
- Lead for innovation and create the right team culture for innovations
- Create a (team) culture that is conducive for idea generation, how to promote ideas and manage the corporate stakeholders
- Drive the implementation of innovative ideas
MODULE 2: INNOVATION CONCEPT – ORGANISING YOUR INNOVATION PROCESSES
- Discover how to manage your core business for sustained innovation
- Learn to manage an innovation project portfolio
- Dive into corporate venturing and business model innovation
- How digital technologies change the markets’ structure
- Tools beyond Osterwalder canvas: Ecosystem perspective on business models • Pros and cons of the most important digital business model patterns
MODULE 3: PLANNING FOR INNOVATION
- Take part in an innovation strategy simulation: make tough product portfolio decisions and learn to allocate your innovation budget
- Build and maintain a dynamic ‘Horizons of Growth’ innovation project portfolio
- Specifying what to do by when in each horizon
- Specifying which projects to promote or stop in each horizon
Why this programme
- Formulate your own innovation vision – including your ambition, concept and plan to achieve it
- Identify patterns that lead to transformation and disruption
- Determine how to respond to change both inside and outside your industry – so you can leapfrog your competition
- Plan strategically to make sure your best ideas are implemented – and create a growth roadmap for the future
- Develop intrapreneurial processes to capture disruptive ideas outside your core business
- Find the right balance between internal and external innovation
- Discover the mindset and capabilities you need to become an innovation leader and foster an innovative culture
Who should attend
- Managers and directors who have a mandate to shape innovation strategy
- Organisations who have put transformation and responding to disruption high on their agendas
- Innovative organisations that disrupt industries and develop new markets
In previous editions, we had the pleasure of welcoming participants from companies like:
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Did you know you may be eligible for:
- Group discount: Register three participants from the same company at the same time and get 15% off
- KMO-portefeuille: Flemish SMEs can apply for funding to cover training costs
- Alumni discount: Vlerick alumni receive 10% off as a thank you for their loyalty to the Vlerick Business School
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Success stories
Yuriy Vdovichenko
Quality and Innovation Manager at Dirafrost Group
The programme’s biggest ROI for my company? A more efficient innovation process linked with business growth and based on risk and opportunity assessment. And Networking is definitely one of the top advantages of choosing Vlerick. I found customers and suppliers for our company among the participants. Read Yuriy's testimonial here.
Geert Adams
VP, R&D Programs & Competence Centers at Newtec
This programme is refreshing – it puts various innovation methodologies and approaches into a conceptual and structured overview without losing the pragmatic touch. With our new knowledge, we will build a more structured approach towards more open innovation, involving our partners in the value chain.
Faculty
Walter Van Dyck
Professor of Innovation Management
Walter Van Dyck supports global science and technology companies with strategic innovation management.
Ksenia Podoynitsyna
Professor of Digital Strategy and Innovation
Ksenia Podoynitsyna empowers companies to shape their strategy, drive innovation and make strategic decisions with data science
Katleen De Stobbeleir
Professor of Leadership
Katleen De Stobbeleir is inspired by leaders who stand up and speak – and she is passionate about those who have the courage to sit and listen.
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