Focused, cost effective, and jargon free training to transform your
innovation team and how they interact with their commercial colleagues.
This is the training I always wanted when I ran an Innovation organization – but could never find it!
Why Choose GoodeStart?
The Case for Change:
Half day
Gain consensus on what is the Innovation Team and its role. Assess current performance. Agree on meaningful KPIs and convert a gap analysis into an action plan.
Workshop agenda
- The innovation team, what is its role, who is included
- Inovation Healthcheck questions
- Innovation KPIs
- Competency audit
- Prioritize for action
Breakthrough Innovation Teamwork and Leadership
2 days
Transform the whole team and its interactions both external and internal. Actionable teaching on how to make the team function better including commercial managers. How to lead in a technology environment, and how to improve systems for quick, strategy led, decision making. Phase Gate, DFSS and Lean methodologies are much more powerful when good teamwork and leadership are in place.
Workshop agenda
Teamship
- Mutual respect
- Respectful of cultural differences
- Handling disagreements
- Team goals and objectives well understood
- Everyone knows their role within the team
- Open communication
Leadership
- Everyone can be a leader
- Leadership improvement cycle
- Successful leadership behavior
- Roadmap to better leadership
Partnership
- Why partnerships are so critical
- Rules for successful internal partnerships
- Customers as partners
- Suppliers as partners
- Third party collaboration
Systems
- Project management
- DFSS, VoC, QFD, Lean, Fuzzy Front End
- Better Phase Gate
- Innovation Team meetings
- Segment and competitive intelligence
- Portfolio review process
Writing Strategic Plans for Innovation
1 day
Learn how to write strategic plans which are the basis for good innovation strategies and productive and fully aligned innovation teams.
Can be extended to two days to work through your examples.
