Trainings
GLOBAL INNOVATION MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE TRAININGS
4 level trainings provided by the GIM Institute for innovation leaders, practitioners, and employees to help build alignment, build innovation leadership, make innovation everyone's job, and execute
Level 1: ASSOCIATE
A 2 - 3 Day workshop or online course complemented by innovation management reading materials developed by the GIM Institutes aimed at:
- Demystifying innovation
- Developing an understanding of definitions and the innovation framework
- Learning techniques for high performance
Objectives
Practice the concepts and theories learned by simulating the innovation process to create a portfolio of actionable new concepts around a mock challenge
Key Takeaways
- Deeper understanding of innovation
- Better grasp of diverge and converge tools
- Confidence to repeat the innovation process
- Preparedness to take the Level 1 certification test
Process
1.
Kick-off & Innovation Intent
2. Opportunity Insights
3.
FoP Presentation
4.
Business Concept Presentations
5.
Business Case
Level 2: MASTER
Real project experience combined with studies using manuals, audit and feedback tools, specialized software with the aim to combine theory, process with real project experience.
Objectives
Apply the knowledge and skills learned in Level 1 certification by doing a real project
Key Takeaways
- Confidence to work in ambiguity and uncertainty
- Apply the tools to generate new growth options and execute ideas
- Work with client/sponsor and diverse teams
- Receive and give feedback to team members
Process
1.
Project Definition, Sponsor Approval
2.
Diverse Team Forming
3.
Project Plan & Research
4.
Presentations & Sponsor Approval
Level 3: MANAGER
Case studies of innovation management combined with lectures or workshops aimed at learning innovation theory, framework, and concepts around:
- Strategy;
- Capacity;
- Discipline
Objectives
Transfer knowledge and capability of innovation management through lessons from the leaders, focused tools and exercises, and application to some case examples
Key Takeaways
- An understanding of the core innovation competencies needed for managing innovation
- Knowledge on how to utilize tools to support the right behaviors to drive competency
- Build confidence to take the Level 3 GIMI certification exam
Strategy
Objectives
- Understand the key drivers for innovation
- Quantify emerging growth gap and need for innovation
- Understand your company's investment and risk profile to define your strategic innovation portfolio
Key Takeaways
- Link innovation to a strategic imperative
- Quantify the growth gap to quantify the amount needed from innovation
- Agree on types of project investment by defining your innovation portfolio
- Frameworks, Tools and Techniques for driving change and developing an innovation strategy and innovation concepts
- Success and failure stories about innovation strategies at a range of companies e.g. Motorola, P&G, LG, Cemex, etc.
Process
1.
Definition
2.
Targets & Imperatives
3.
Landscape & FoPs
4.
Platforms & Lead Concepts
5.
Timing Horizons & Pipelines
6.
Value Chains & Partners
Capacity
Objectives
- Organization & Structures to support and speed decisions for innovation
- Processes & Systems to drive ideas seamlessly to commercialization
- Resources & Competencies to get high impact innovation results
Key Takeaways
- Get insight into the challenges of making innovation real across organization
- Learn about the “disconnected” innovation processes in your company and begin thinking about how to connect them
- Framework to organize and plan for your resource needs
- Importance of organization and structures to connect across the organization and beyond
Process
1.
Process
2.
Fuzzy Front End
3.
Pipeline Management
4.
Portfolio Management
5.
Resources
6.
Organization
Discipline
Objectives
- Set targets and metrics for your innovation strategy
- Alignment and successfully manage your innovation initiatives
- Support an innovation culture and climate with organizational alignment and performance management systems that make innovation pervasive
Key Takeaways
- Understanding of how to think and act differently based on key barriers and drivers to innovation and the written/unwritten rules of our game
- Identification and dimensioning of the most important innovation metrics based on the strategic innovation objectives and initiatives
- Balanced scorecard and Dashboard for your Innovation strategy and implications for your performance management systems
Process
1.
Leadership, Organization, Learning, Culture
2.
Goal Setting, Measurement
3.
Scorecards, Dashboards,
Level 4: LEADER
Becoming an author of a white paper or book based on experience gained through an innovation system creation in a company, innovation portfolio management, or value creation and capture from a project
Objectives
Apply the knowledge and skills learned in Level 3 certification by doing a real project and writing a whitepaper
Key Takeaways
- Confidence to manage innovation systems in an organization
- Build an effective innovation strategy
- Create an innovation process and structure and leverage right resources to go faster
- Gain leadership skills
Process
1.
Providing Strategic Direction on Innovation
2.
Developing an Innovation Process
3.
Creating an Innovation Culture, Metrics