A 2-day program on innovation leadership. Targeted for functional leaders (Engineering, Marketing, HR, Quality, Finance) to transition into cross-functional leadership.

1. Next Gear: Gearing up for innovation leadership
Transitioning from functional to cross-functional leadership
How to build a
healthy idea
How to foster pipeline?
a culture of How to improve
innovation? idea velocity?
How to
align innovation
Solver Surfer
program to
business How to manage the
strategy? change effectively?
Capacity
Builder Champion
A 2-day program for functional leaders
July 5-6 2012, Hotel Grand Mercure, Koramangala, Bangalore
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2. Next Gear: Gearing up for innovation leadership
Transitioning from functional to cross-functional leadership
Objective:
Help functional leaders (Engineering, Quality, HR, Marketing, Finance) to take up a lead
role in cross-functional innovation initiative.
Topics covered:
Assessment of innovation capacity Fostering a culture of innovation
Innovation strategy Rewards & recognition (What works)
Building a challenge book Building innovation sandbox
Building idea pipeline Low-cost high-speed experimentation
Improving idea velocity Managing failures
Idea generation techniques (comparison) Innovation review effectiveness
Highlights: Participant profile:
• Evolved over the past 4 years • 10+ years of experience
• 100 year view of innovation management • Engineering Director, Product Manager
• Case study discussions • Senior Manager HR / Finance / Quality
• Guest speakers from industry • CTO / Head of Research
• Panel discussion • Head of Business Excellence
• Action planning • Innovation catalysts / champions
• Monthly follow-ups for a quarter
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3. Next Gear: Gearing up for innovation leadership
July 5-6 2012, Hotel Grand Mercure, Koramangala, Bangalore
Day-1 Day-2
Time Focus Time Focus
9:30-11:00 Expectation gathering, 9:30-11:00 Managing big bets
Introduction to systematic Innovation sandbox, Innovation
innovation, platforms, Open innovation, Risk
Dashboard/Metric management for big bets
11:15-12:45 Panel discussion:
11:15-12:45 Building the foundation layer Managing big bets
Innovation strategy,
Bright spots, Dr. Ishwar Parulkar, Chief System
Challenge campaigns Architect, Cisco
Dr. Ashwin Naik, CEO, Vaatsalya
Jayesh Badani, CEO, Ideaken
01:45-03:15 Improving idea velocity
Low-cost experimentation, 01:45-03:30 Panel discussion:
Rewards & recognition, Managing culture change
Managing failure
V R Prasanna, Program Director,
3:30-5:30 Panel discussion:
Sikshana Foundation
Idea generation techniques
Raja Chidambaram, Consultant
Lakshman Seshadri, Head of 03:45-5:30 Participant presentations:
innovation, SAP Global Delivery
Dr. Shankar Venugopal, Innovation Status, learning and actions for the
leader, Honeywell innovation program
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4. Next Gear: Gearing up for innovation leadership
A 2-day workshop for functional leaders
July 5-6 2012, Hotel Grand Mercure, Koramangala, Bangalore
Facilitator: Dr. Vinay Dabholkar
• 16 years of industry experience
• Expert on 120 years history of innovation mgmt
• Co-author of an upcoming book “8 steps to
innovation excellence” Innovation Leadership Dev. program in 2009
• Co-facilitated innovation leadership development facilitated by Vinay
program at IIMB in 2011
• 200+ blogs on the topic of innovation
• BTech IIT Bombay, PhD SUNY Buffalo
For registration contact: vinay@catalign.com, +91 99457-57913
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