Our Key Learning Products
L1
Innovation Strategy Workshop
In the 3-day ISW groups of senior managers clarify their own organisation’s strategy for gaining and sustaining competitive (or comparative) advantage through innovation.
After the workshop, participants return to their organisation with a proposal to present to their senior colleagues that will state: (i) the role of innovation in our competitive strategy; (ii) our innovation priorities; (iii) our current strengths and weaknesses in managing innovation; (iv) a vision statement describing our required future innovation architecture; (v) suggested metrics for assessing progress and (vi) clarification of the role of the organisation’s leaders in facilitating innovation.
The ISW can be adapted for team development or as a modular process undertaken over a 12 week period.
L2
Developing Innovation Change Agents
The DICA programme has four modules and leads to the RCL Certificate of Competence. The programme has:
1. Launch module (10 days) provides intensive personal development with inputs on intervention theory using RCL’s Intervention Models.
2. Consolidation Module (4 days) participants work to master the required intellectual content and plan their ‘real-life’ intervention.
3. Real-life intervention (3 days) teams of participants implement the RCL’s Intervention Models within a real client organisation.
4. Integration Module (4 days) an opportunity to learn from module three and devise a personal development plan.
This programme is demanding personally and professionally. Components can be available as separate modules.
L3
The Innovation Architecture Workshop
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The objectives of this one day IAW are for participants:
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To understand better how innovation is being managed currently.
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To identify the strengths and weaknesses of the organization’s ‘innovation architecture’ – how it structures innovation.
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To consider how to upgrade, reconfigure or revise our innovation framework.
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The IAW’s role is to provide a structure for defining the variety of ways (modes) that can be used for facilitating innovation. Then to help participants to consider whether they need to add, subtract or strengthen the modes in use. There are 25 possible modes, which are categorised into seven wellsprings. Each is explained in detail during the workshop and participants gain a clear understanding of how to develop an improved innovation architecture.
L4
Leading Innovation Workshop
This 16 hour workshop can be undertaken over two days or in four separate modules. The LIW enables the members of a Top Management Team to examine how they are acting as leaders of innovation. This is a team development, not a strategy development, workshop. Pre-work is required. 12 elements of innovation leadership are explored during the LIW. These are: (i) Team Receptivity (ii) Defining Innovation Focus (iii) Risk-Orientated Decision Making (iv) Resource Allocation (v) Sense-Making Processes (vi) Technology Bets (vii) Innovation Performance Assessment (viii) Role Modelling (ix) Scenario Development (x) Unblocking Capability (xi) Reality Orientation and (xii) Hands-On Engagement.
After the workshop the Top Management Team will be clear as to where it needs to change in order to improve its effectiveness as a leader of innovation.
