Identify and address the most critical bottlenecks to achieve your innovation and growth goals.
Optimize Your Innovation Management System For 2025
A workshop with Frank Mattes, founder of Lean Scaleup and author of NOW and NEW and Dennis Böcker, ISO 56002 certified innovation manager... starting 28 January 2025
Click play for an introduction to the program by Frank & Dennis
Set a clear, actionable path to hit your 2025 targets.
In most companies, this time of year is for planning and setting targets for 2025. As innovation function, we are asked to deliver upon growth objectives. There are plenty of opportunities and challenges. Yet the tension is rising, with increased pressure on costs, budgets, and productivity.
It's obvious that our operations must be lean, effective and efficient. That starts with a holistic and honest assessment of your innovation management system and how it's been performing.
Why? Companies with an excellent innovation management system make the right decisions five times more often compared to innovation laggards. These companies report a clear business impact from their innovation efforts, repeatedly- measured in revenues and/or transformation outcomes. Most companies have an innovation management system. However, many of these systems are often incomplete and inconsistent.
If the results from your innovation efforts aren't at the level you need them to be... this is always caused by an ineffective innovation management system.
Join this workshop to assess your innovation management system, and identify the key levers to pull, the bottlenecks to eliminate, and the right initiatives to accelerate to make the best of your innovation pipeline.
You’ll have clarity on which issues to priortize and address first, so you can achieve your innovation and growth goals and maximize your impact in 2025... even with limited resources.
What will you get out of the program?
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Discover what drives or slows down your innovation effort through a structured self-assessment you'll complete with your team
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Learn the 16 components of a best-in-class innovation management system that work together like a well-oiled engine
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Dive into two crucial frameworks- ISO 56001 for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving an Innovation Management System, and Lean Scaleup, which provides guidance on how to design the NOW/NEW interface
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Identify the key levers to pull, the bottlenecks to eliminate, and the right initiatives to accelerate to make the best of your innovation pipeline
How it works.
Deep Dives are cohort-based collaborative learning programs. That means you'll work together with peers from other companies and industries, also tapping into the expertise and experiences of fellow innovators, beyond the guidance of Dennis Böcker and Frank Mattes, the program facilitators.
This Deep Dive is a 3-weeks program with the following structure/components:
Workshop Primer
Before we dive in, you’ll receive a Reflection Guide to assess your current innovation ecosystem.
This self-guided activity will help you get a clear picture of what is working, what is not, and what is holding you back.
Workshop 1: Clarify your current situation
In this workshop, you’ll take a step back to evaluate where you stand and what’s holding you back.
- Understand your reality: What challenges are you facing? What’s slowing you down? We’ll guide you in mapping these obstacles into a clear, actionable framework.
- Align with the IMS framework: See how your current situation compares to the globally standardized IMS (ISO 56001) for a systems approach to innovation management.
- Begin your self-assessment: Get started on a structured self-assessment to identify key areas for improvement for your organization and compile a shortlist of organizational nudges to drive progress.
This sessions is scheduled for Tuesday 28 January 2025 - 15:00-19:00 CET/9am-1pm Eastern.
Self-Assessment with your team
Work with your team to dive deeper into your innovation reality using a proprietary self-assessment tool.
This will help you cut through the noise and get a data-backed view of where your challenges lie.
Workshop 2: Turn insights into action
Building on the self assessment results, we will help you turning insights into action.
- Discuss your self-assessment findings: Reflect on your results and exchange perspectives with peers. Identify confirmed strengths, key findings, and areas for improvement.
- Deep dive into focus areas: Tackle the most pressing challenges by exploring the problem space, learning best practices, and brainstorming potential solutions.
- Design your upgrade program: Define potential upgrade activities, prioritize them using the ICE (Impact, Confidence, Ease) assessment, and create a timeboxed plan with clear 30/90/180-day goals.
This session is scheduled for Thursday 13 February 2025 - 15:00-19:00 CET/9am-1pm Eastern.
Benchmark with others
You will get to discuss your findings with peers facing similar challenges—because sometimes the best solutions come from unexpected sources.
Async support and additional resources
Beyond the live sessions, you'll get ongoing async support as well as access to additional resources via the Innov8rs Community hub.
The supporting frameworks
ISO 56001
The standard for building, maintaining, and improving a high-functioning Innovation Management System (IMS)
Lean Scaleup
Developed with input from over 100 corporate and academic experts, this approach focuses on scaling innovation while keeping operations lean and focused
The experts
Dennis is an ISO 56002 certified innovation manager with many years of corporate innovation management experience. He is Expert Member in the German delegation (DIN) of the ISO TC 279 (Innovation management).
Frank is an expert in out-of-the-box innovation and new-business building. His recent book, “NOW and NEW - How Companies Can Use Their Capabilities For Scaling Innovation and Generating New Growth” is all about the critical interface between the existing business and innovation.
Identify and address the most critical bottlenecks in your innovation management system, to optimize innovation efficiency
Keen to achieve your 2025 growth goals? Let's get started!
If you/your team are interested in joining this program, please apply via the form as a first step.
Since this is a cohort-based collaborative learning program, we'll review applicants and match them with the group as it's forming. We aim to welcome a diverse group of innovation professionals from across industries (plus avoid having competitors in the room).
If we accept your application to join, you'll be offered the seat to participate in the program. We'll follow up by email within 48 hours of your application.
For any questions about the program or the application process, please contact Hans Balmaekers via hans@innov8rs.co
