Workshop on Building Innovation Competencies

Happened on July 14, Thursday, 2016
3:30pm — 11:30pm (GMT+05:30)
Hilton Bangalore Embassy GolfLinks Embassy Golf Links Business Park
Event Details:

The purpose of the workshop is to introduce the audience to a research backed understanding of how firms build enduring capabilities around innovation.

What makes firms great is not the great products that they produce, but the ability to do so over and over again, and for a long period of time. This ability is called ‘capability’. Hence, ‘innovation capability’ is the ability of a firm to come up with great products and services over and over again, even with change in leadership, environment, or product class.

The intent of the workshop is to introduce the audience to a research backed understanding of how firms build enduring capabilities, especially around innovation.

Key takeaways

The hands-on workshop on building innovation competence offers the following takeaways:

A system to build a culture of innovation within your enterprise

The role leadership, management, and support functions play in building innovation competencies

The right processes and incentive systems

Building your own Innovation Program

Who should attend?

Senior leaders

CEOs

Business Owners

Entrepreneurs

Agenda

10:00 – 10:45 Introducing to the innovation capability model: Entrepreneur. Leadership. Business Model. People. Culture. Processes. Task-Environment. Institutions.

10:45 – 11:00 Tea/ Coffee break

11:00 – 13:00 Sharing of best practices and principles on Leadership and Management.

Practices from Toyota, Samsung, Lenovo. IBM, Apple, Amazon. Google, Wipro, Infosys, Biocon, Dr. Reddy’s Lab, Anand Group, and several other MNCs.

13:00- 13:45 Lunch break and networking

13:45- 16:15 Implementing an Innovation Program.

Structure of your Innovation Program. Idea management. Idea filtration concepts. Business planning. Budgeting. Control systems. Incentive mechanisms. Procedures. Open Innovation. Milestones

16:15- 16:30 Tea break

16:30- 17:30 Presentation on customized Innovation Programme

An innovation management program, embedded with key principles and practices.

17:30- 18:00 Wrap- up and summary of key takeaways

About the Trainer

Pavan Soni is an Innovation Evangelist by profession and a teacher by passion. He has consulted with leading organizations on innovation and creativity. Some of the marquee names include Allergan, Café Coffee Day, Capgemini, Ericsson, Future Group, GlaxoSmithKline, Infosys, Mahindra, Tanishq, Tata Steel, Thermax, Titan, Total, Wipro, and World Trade Centre, amongst others.

Pavan is recipient of the ‘On-the-Job Achiever Award’- Lakshya- CII Mumbai in 2007 for his work on Innovation, and was felicitated with ‘Innovation Excellence Award’ at the 5th Indira Innovation Summit in 2012.

He works closely with Karnataka Knowledge Commission, Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce, European Business Group India, FICCI, and CII, in their innovation agendas. He has over five journal papers, ten conference papers, three books, and several articles to his scholarly credit.

A Gold Medalist from MBM Engineering College Jodhpur, and a PGDIE from NITIE Mumbai, Pavan is currently pursuing his Doctoral Studies from IIM Bangalore in the discipline of innovation management.

To register for the workshop, please visit http://ceohangout.com/event/innovation/

Contact number: 8884611588
Email: [email protected]


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