How to overcome the obstacles that block innovation in your organization
Anyone who has ever tried to innovate knows how difficult it is. Sometimes it may seem that developing and introducing an innovative process, approach or product into your organization faces so many barriers that new ideas never get a chance.
This course focuses on how to bring those innovative ideas to life. It examines how to put a value on innovation, how to communicate its value and how to take control over barriers such as funding, working across the organization, dealing with change, and managing risk.
Participants explore their own ideas for innovation, identify and deal with organizational barriers they may face, and then develop strategies to overcome them. Finally, participants build their own action plan which includes defining their own organization’s measures of success.
Who Will Benefit?
This webinar is designed for executives, strategists and innovators who want to improve their innovation management processes and increase the success rate and impact of their organization's best ideas.
What You Will Learn
Through examples, online discussion, polling, and directed questioning, you will:
- Identify your organization’s innovation activities that can lead to targeted business outcomes
- Learn how to better communicate innovative ideas to engage internal, external or cross-discipline partners with a goal of getting a better focus on value
- Perform a gap analysis of innovation capabilities and climate of innovation in your organization
- Take a deeper look at the common barriers to innovation and formulate strategies on how to overcome them
- Understand both the danger and the value of those who are enemies to innovation
- Discover a systematic way to track innovations and measure their success
Course Outline
Topics in Breaking Down the Barriers to Innovation include:
- Perspectives on innovation
- Adapting ideas to new contexts
- Exploring your ideas for innovation and its potential
- Creating and developing the innovation value proposition
- Exploring organizational capabilities and climate for innovation
- Barriers and common mistakes in innovation
- Who are the enemies of innovation
- Action planning: Next steps, intents, and assignments to take the innovation work forward
- Tracking innovations and measuring their success
This webinar begins at 9 a.m. EST and ends around 5 p.m. EST. These times can be adjusted, subject to class and faculty availability, please contact us at EBI to discuss.
The Executive Business Institute continually updates the content of its programs to meet its participants’ needs. Course content may vary from session to session.
Course Leaders
Peter Andrews has spent a career bridging the gap between technical capabilities and the bottom line. He provides advice on emerging technologies both to IBM and to IBM’s clients.
Mark Feeley has worked as a facilitator and consultant with a number of organizations in identifying creative and divergent techniques in problem/opportunity definition, idea generation, idea selection and implementation. He is certified and experienced in several leading creativity and innovation tools.