Open Innovation for Leaders

This training course is designed for active and motivated senior executives, who are willing to contribute to business debate, and bring their own thoughts to discussions on challenges and opportunities of modern organisational change and innovation. This is a collegiate environment, mixing a relaxed atmosphere with challenging intellectual content. The training course will blend workshop formats that will stimulate and stretch participants, including (but not limited to), formal seminar style presentations, structured discussions, informal debates, along with solo work and group exercises. Workshops will use a mix of printed material, slides, activities and videos.

This training course will allow you to be the champion of open innovation within their organisation.

At the end of this Open Innovation for Leaders  training course, you will learn to:

• Understand and apply the essential tools of strategic and environmental scanning and analysis
• Discuss and debate with senior leaders the application of open innovation in organisational plans
• Promote an organisational culture that supports change, creativity and risk to support innovation
• Create a practical plan for sourcing, contracting and managing valuable external relationships
• Lead the development of open innovation plans within your organisation

This training course is relevant for any manager or executive who is tasked now or is expected to be involved in the future with projects that require innovation, business and service development and organisational change. Participants could attend from across the organisation, as innovation impacts not just strategic planning, marketing and business development, but units such as operations, human resources, finance and legal. 

This Open Innovation for Leaders training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• General Managers and Executives responsible for leading innovation & change
• Project Managers
• Business Development Managers
• Business Unit Leaders and Commercial Managers
• Marketing Managers (Product and Service Managers)
• Relationship, Partnership and Contract Managers

Organisational Impact

Participants will gain the knowledge and ability to be the champion of open innovation within their organisational context. The organisation will benefit as successful participants will be able to:

• Promote open innovation strategies and the value of external knowledge and relationships
• Explain & present open innovation ideas, tactics, and tools to others across the organisation
• Build the practical steps and actions to kick-start open innovation initiatives and trials
• Support team members and colleagues to explore and grow valuable new relationships
• Encourage a culture of change and managed risk, to explore new opportunities
• Manage the value and commercial impact of open innovation projects

Personal Impact

This Open Innovation for Leaders training course offers substantial professional development opportunities for the individual too. Participants will benefit from:

• Greater personal confidence in discussing topics of organisational strategy and planning
• Greater personal confidence in discussing topics of innovation, creativity and change
• An appreciation of innovation contexts and challenges from other industries, cultures & organisations
• An ability to become respected as their organisational champion and business lead for open innovation
• An opportunity to extend their executive and leadership abilities and skills
• Valuable contacts with participants from across industries and organisations