PROGRAM & SCHEDULE
Day 1: Title and overview
* Invention, innovation, and the innovation development process. Basic innovation concepts for incremental, radical and disruptive or breakthrough innovation at different aggregation levels. The product innovation development process can be distinguished in a linear and a cyclic process with several determinants that affects the effectiveness of the process.
Day 2: Title and overview
* Innovation capabilities and competencies to boost innovation performance. Various innovation intervention strategies and creativity development will be reviewed as well as the main barriers that prevent innovation to become successful, both at project and at organisation level.
Day 3: Title and overview
* Innovation teams, leadership, culture and innovation knowledge development. Various innovation team concepts, its management and impact will be reviewed together with innovation scenario building, backcasting and futures research.
Duration: 2, 3, 4, 5 June The programme is designed for Executive officers, company owners and directors, general managers, business unit managers, operations managers, marketing managers, technical managers, and heads of public services.
METHODOLOGY
The course blends lectures and interactive tutorials based on class discussion of selected case studies with students’ own reading and business experience.
