Leading Innovation

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 innovation
• 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 
• Discover how digital technologies change the markets’ structure 
• Learn tools beyond Osterwalder canvas: Ecosystem perspective on business models
• Gain insight into the 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

• 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  

• 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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• 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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