Corporate Politics for Innovators

How to work effectively with the core business, gain their support, and harness the advantages of being an innovator within a large organization.

An 8-weeks cohort-based collaborative learning program with Tendayi Viki, Associate Partner at Strategyzer / Author of Pirates In The Navy... starting 24 February 2025

The huge gap between companies' innovation ambitions and their capabilities is caused by a "human" issue, involving how people interact and deal with each other. For innovators, departments like IT, Legal/Compliance and Finance are the hardest to work with but we can't make progress without them.

No single team or leader can drive innovation alone. It's crucial to build relationships and produce win-win outcomes for different functions. And yes, this is what we mean with politics...

Join this program to navigate corporate politics effectively, and learn how to work effectively with the core business, gain their support, and harness the advantages of being an innovator within a large organization.

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Optimize Your Innovation Management System For 2025

Identify and address the most critical bottlenecks to achieve your innovation and growth goals.

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

To deliver upon growth objectives for 2025 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.

Companies with an excellent innovation management system report a clear business impact from their innovation efforts. Most companies have an “ims”, but many are often incomplete and inconsistent.

Join this workshop to 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  goals and maximize your impact in 2025... even with limited resources.

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More programs coming in 2025...

  • Innovation Storytelling
  • Building High-Performance Innovation Teams
  • Innovation Finance

Want to know when these launch? Missing a topic? Keen to dive into something else? Just email euge@innov8rs.co