Management of innovation for managers

The 6 competencies expression resulted from the surveys of A.D. LITTLE among a large worldwide panel of the most innovative companies from all business areas.

Reinforce your innovation management

Facing a tougher, more competitive environment,

you have decided to associate your managers to:

-	Make a diagnosis on innovation management in your company.

-	Elaborate action plans that will allow reinforcing innovation management competencies.

Improving innovation management competencies implies that your managers will:

-	Share and enrich your own diagnoses on improvement directions.

-	Recognize the company's best practices by themselves.
-	Pick out opportunities associated with potential changes of your company's environment.
-	Propose priority business areas for innovation and identify their contribution succeeding proposed innovation projects.

« More than 6000 Norwegian managers and executives have worked on "Innovation at Heart" in the frame of "Innovatown" seminars organized by INNOVATION NORGE in 2005 »

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	« Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. » « Michael Porter »

1 to 1 ½ day program; for 8 to 24 participants

Action Mat « Innovation at Heart »

Objectives:

-	To discover innovation catalysts and potential for the company.
-	To identify priority innovation areas for your innovation strategies.

75 minutes working and exchanging on the Action Mat followed by 20-30 minutes of sharing

Action Mat « Innovation, the competencies »

Objectives:

-	To understand the six innovation competencies of the most innovative companies.
-	To propose improvement direction priorities.

45 minutes working and exchanging on the Action Mat followed by 15-20 minutes of sharing

Action Mat « Innovation radar »

Objectives:

-	To diagnose the competencies associated with your innovation strategies and innovation management.
-	To look for solutions to reinforce your innovation management competencies.

90 minutes working and exchanging on the Action Mat, looking for solutions to reinforce competencies followed by 30-60 minutes of sharing on proposed action plans

Action Mat « Priority innovations for tomorrow »

Objectives:

-	To look for priority innovation areas in the company and changes in your environment that will define your innovation strategy for the future.
-	To identify action plans and competencies to succeed challenges associated with innovation strategies.

90 minutes working and exchanging on the Action Mat, followed by 60-90 minutes of synthesis and conclusions

« Memory Book »

After the session, the Memory Book, allows each participant to:

-	Evaluate their own competencies to succeed in the identified innovation projects in his/her responsibility area.
-	Define their personal as well as team contributions to retained action plans after the session.