Building Innovative Organizations

Setting

The commodity competition model is no longer valid for Western Europe. Companies need to increase their innovative power to survive in an ever-faster world.
Several new techniques and insights can help you to align your organization to these new challenges.
This 6-day program brings together a selection of absolute experts in the relevant domains to assist you and your organization in this journey, both from a strategy & operational approach as from a people's point of view.
If so desired, you will be coached on your own case during the class and we will provide one follow-up remote coaching session of 1 hour per participant.
As part of this program, you become part of a community to exchange experiences on how to handlle your change process.

Content

MODULE 1: Launching the ship

STRATEGY. Jamie Anderson explores the different levers for boosting innovation in your firm. He explores how the implementation of better sensing mechanisms can prepare you for launching successful innovations more often and with less risk. He draws on examples from the creative industries, as well as established firms. 
INCUBATION. Carla Koen looks at the different models for open innovation, including different approaches to venturing; allowing to kick-start new innovative directions for your team.  Rudi Broos (Alcatel-Lucent) elaborates on his company’s approach, showing how early involvement of stakeholders improves the chance for a fit with company strategy. 
EXECUTION. Carla further links all concepts together and looks at different industry implementations. In a connected world, the importance of new innovation tactics such as the changed use of IPR, spin-offs and licensing is increasing. Then, Katja van der Wal (Philips) brings a testimonial on approaches to organizing for innovation.

MODULE 2: Getting everyone on board
 
CHANGE. Sofie Rogiest explores how an open, connected business environment requires a more bottom-up approach for new solutions. This approach to change management will be used throughout the rest of the module. Peter Hinssen explores the new digital society and how it impacts the approach to introducing innovations into the market. 
TALENT & ORGANIZATION. Jan De Keyser helps us to discover our strengths. Leveraging talents within teams will lead to better team performance. Further on, “natural” resistance to innovations can often be overcome by selecting an appropriate organizational approach. 
COLLABORATION & CREATIVITY. Joerg Reckhenrich gives insight into how to boost creativity, interaction and knowledge sharing within companies. Optimal innovation comes from gathering and connecting diverse creative talents, and creating an environment for collaboration.

The entire programme is based on the innovation life cycle. Simple in theory, it is one of the basic tools to start from when looking to upgrade your organization.
More details on the content can be found below. 

Lecturers

Note that the information below is based on the program of Spring 2011. Changes to Faculty and course content in the future are possible.

Following people guide you in this captivating journey:

Jamie Anderson is Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Innovation Management at Antwerp Management School, and visiting lecturer at London Business School. Originally from Australia, he teaches to leading companies from around the world.

He is a widely published author on innovation and creativity management. His articles have appeared in publications such as MIT Sloan Management review, the European Journal of Innovation Management, Journal of Business Strategy, Business Strategy Review, International Journal of Innovation & Technology Management and the Financial Times Handbook of Management. He has been a columnist for The Times of London and has appeared as a business commentator on the BBC, CNBC and CNN. Jamie is a best selling ase study writer and directs a series of case writing workshops at the European Case Clearing House.
He is commonly recognized as one of Europe’s top 25 management thinkers and is co-author of the book 'The fine art of success'. 

Prof. Carla Koen is director of the European Institute for Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship (EIBIE). She heads up the innovation activities at TiasNimbas Business School and is involved in many of the innovation projects in the Dutch industry.

She obtained a PhD and Master in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick (UK). Her PhD and Master studies focus on innovation in the German and Japanese pharmaceutical industry. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Geselschaftsforschung (Cologne), Sophia University (Tokyo), and the Wissenschaftszentrum fuer Sozialforschung (Berlin).
Carla Koen’s expertise lies in technology management and in comparative international organization and management. She is author of a book and of several national and international publications in journals such as Organization Studies, Current Topics in Management, Management Executive, Research in International Business and Finance, etc. 

Rudi Broos is Innovation Officer at Alcatel-Lucent Bell. Before that, he built a career in defining and marketing innovative Telecommunication solutions at Alcatel-Lucent. As Innovation Officer, his goal is to position Alcatel-Lucent at the fore-front of innovation in Telecom services. Among others, he was responsible for the definition and organization of the global Alcatel-Lucent bootcamp. Alcatel-Lucent is traditionally the front-runner in Flanders in the definition and implementation of innovation processes. They also house the largest industrial research & innovation group in Flanders. Within the program, he brings a testimonial of how Alcatel-Lucent fosters innovation within the company and reflects back on the program content.

Katja van der Wal is driving the Open Innovation program at Philips Consumer Lifestyle. Before that, Katja has held several positions in Consumer Marketing Management at the headquarters of Philips. Amongst others, 5 year experience as Director Consumer Marketing Management for Senseo, a partnership between Philips and SaraLee/DouweEgberts. She has joined Philips 18 years ago, starting in production engineering at Philips Semiconductors, thereby gaining significant experience in production and development of 24/7 mass production management for automotive industry. Katja holds a masters degree in Aerospace Engineering from Technical University Delft in The Netherlands. 

Sofie Rogiest is doctorandus at Antwerp University. As a management consultant, she guided many companies in both service and production domains in delivering organizational change. 

Peter Hinssen is one of Europe’s most sought-after thought leaders on the impact of technology on society and business. Peter is CEO of Across Technology and was founder and CEO of several successful companies, which he sold to other companies like Alcatel-Lucent, Belgacom and Descartes. He is a keynote speaker at leading international events like Sibos, the IT leader forum, CA Expo and many others. He is author of 2 books: 'Business/IT fusion' and 'The New Normal'.

Jan De Keyser is a leading independant HR-consultant. He consults companies like Alcatel-Lucent, Swift, Vandemoortele and Barco and is an expert in strength-based development.

Jörg Reckhenrich is artist and Adjunct Professor of Innovation and Creativity at the Lorange Institute, Switzerland. He is also visiting lecturer at London Business School, IMD and ESMT Berlin. His research focusses on fostering creativity in large corporations. He is co-author of the book 'The fine art of success'.

Why choose this programme ?Target groupThis program is intended for experienced professionals with a potential to trigger change projects throughout a team. They could be R&D managers, HRM managers, Chief Operating Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officers, New Business Developers, Innovation managers and Product management leaders.Applicants typically have at least 6 years of professional experience and must be proficient in both written and spoken English. No direct prior knowledge is required as the new knowledge builds on existing business understanding.Surplus valueParticipants will acquire following skills:

• Evaluating the organization and selecting an appropriate innovation strategy
• Selecting appropriate ways of how your organization supports bringing ideas to real business
• Defining an operational approach for the selected innovation methods
• Defining the approach how to have the necessary people in your organization adopt the chosen innovation method
• Start and guide a project to better leverage the strengths of your people
• Define how, as part of the change project, you will foster creativity and collaboration within your organization

Benefits for the company: Enable your employee(s) and have an expert team that assists you in a change project for your organization that will:

• Step up customer insights and intimacy
• Improve internal collaboration and know how exchange
• Improve the innovative output of your organization
• Improve employee engagement
• Better attract and retain talent
• Position your company as more innovative

Learning outcomes

Day 1, STRATEGY:
- Learn the different innovation strategies you can select based on the market environment
- Learn which environmental sensing mechanisms deliver best added value to your innovation efforts
- Learn how to set up the right ideation input for your innovation strategy
- Learn approaches for strategic collaboration to enhance your innovation efforts
- Learn the different mechanisms to get early customer feedback to improve your time-to-market
- Learn to identify unarticulated customer needs by shifting from traditional market research to optimal complaint handling

Day 2, INCUBATION:
- Learn the different venturing approaches outside and within companies and their succes rate towards innovation
- Learn to select the right innovations that will most benefit your company
- Learn how to manage the risk of new ventures
- Get coached on how you can organise idea gathering and incubation within your company

Day 3, EXECUTION:
- Learn different mechanisms to valorise innovative ideas
- Understand the necessary balance between searching for new and maintaining existing revenue streams
- Learn the optimal approaches for an IPR policy towards innovation

Day 4, CHANGE & THE NEW WORLD:
- Learn different approaches to change management
- Learn ways to speed up a viral change process
- Understand how to overcome internal resistance towards innovative solutions
- Learn how a digital world impacts the critical success factors for new innovations
- Learn how the use of social media tools can foster collaboration and know how exchange

Day 5, TALENT & ORGANIZATION:
- Learn different tools to help employees to become more aware of their strengths
- Learn approaches to improve the fit between team activities and the available talents
- Learn possible organisational approaches to overcome resistance due to commonly applied procedures and solutions

Day 6, COLLABORATION & CREATIVITY:
- Understand the importance of human expectations towards increased collaboration
- Learn to identify and engage the right mix of people
- Learn how to motivate them individually
- Learn to manage a culture for creativity and one for execution
- Learn to create a culture to support risk taking and develop a common sense of urgency
- Learn how to organise ideation sessions