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Professional Development

Leading and Executing Innovation

 cultivating an environment where innovation will flourish

Program Outline:
Values, Virtue, and Innovation: Part I
Exploring leadership that cultivates innovation



  • Understand how intangibles create wealth by managing risk, protecting a favorable reputation, and attracting talent
  • Learn what integrity means and how to align innovation and profit goals
  • Build an action plan for developing integrity based leadership

Art of Innovation:
Building a Climate for Innovation

  • Define the artifacts, values, and underlying assumptions that create organizational culture
  • Diagnose creative cultures and competencies
  • Assess your organization's climate for creativity
  • Create a roadmap to strengthen risk-taking and innovative behaviors

Science of Innovation:
Tools to discover, select, and execute

  • Analyzing your innovation path
     • Market presence innovation
     • Service innovation
     • Life-stage
     • Degrees of Innovation
  • Discovering ideas
     • Value curve and industry factor analysis
     • Industry structure and trend analysis
     • Buyer Cycles
     • Alternatives vs. substitutes
     • Open Innovation networks
  • Evaluate and select
     • Discovery-based planning
     • Stage gate processing
     • Pipelines and portfolios
Values, Virtue, and Innovation: Part II
Exploring leadership that cultivates innovation


  • Understand how intangibles create wealth by managing risk, protecting a favorable reputation, and attracting talent
  • Learn what integrity means and how to align innovation and profit goals
  • Build an action plan for developing integrity based leadership