Innovation Center
- Empower Your Managers
to Drive Growth
The Innovation Center is a premier collection of insights, ideas, and tools on how to approach innovation strategically and systematically. This is the go-to place to find out how to map strategies to drive innovation across the organization and make it a core capability.
Drawing on the work of renowned experts on innovation and creativity, the Innovation Center challenges leaders to consider not only new products or services, but also novel ways to look at business processes, organizational structure, and innovation management.
Target Audiences
The Innovation Centers provides advice, tools and resources for leaders at all levels who must motivate team members and manage business processes to support ongoing growth and innovation.
Benefits
- Innovation as a Core Focus. The Managers Toolkit provides guidance and tips on how to cascade groundbreaking ideas and best practices to support innovation throughout a group or organization.
- Understanding Innovation. Suggests specific learning paths about innovation for different situations and audiences. * Streamlined Learning Paths. “Cover flow” design quickly guides managers through the content.
- Taking It to the Team. Conversation Starters and Facilitation Guides to stimulate curiosity and discussion among team members.
- The Innovation Wire. RSS links and dynamically updated content connects managers to the latest thinking about innovation.
- Rich Digital Media. Videos, articles, case studies, HMM 10 topics and tools offer a wide breadth of content for different learning styles.
Experts
The Innovation Center draws on the work of recognized foremost thinkers, authors, professors and practitioners in the field of innovation and creativity.
Practical Advice, Useful Tools, Amazing Stories, Fresh Design
Blend the best ideas on innovation into your leadership development curriculum. The resources in the Center can support and reinforce both self-directed learning and group action learning.
The center is organized for fast, easy navigation through a wide breadth of learning assets:
- Content: Three content areas – Strategy, Management, Process -- cover the broad continuum of business challenges pertaining to innovation.
- Featured Experts: Each section has a video introduction by a leading expert that highlights key conceptual material covered in the section.
- Media Collection: n extensive selection of articles, videos, tools, case studies, Conversation Starters, and HMM 10 topics.
- The Managers’ Toolkit:
Contains aids for managers or facilitators on how to best cascade the Innovation Center’s learning content to groups and individuals with:
- Tips on Using the Innovation Center: leads to a Guide with suggestions on how to use the Center’s collection of content for different situations and different levels.
- Conversation Starters Index: offers quick access to an index of all the Conversation Starters, listed by section that will stimulate curiosity and discussion around a specific topic.
- Tools Index: simplified access to all the tools in the collection, listed by section.
- Blended Learning: provides classroom Facilitation Guides for both Facilitators and Participants.
Innovation Wire: RSS feeds link managers to top sources for the latest news and thinking on innovation.
Flexible Array of Assets: The Center’s content and tools can be integrated into a blended learning curriculum
A Rich Collection of Resources for Development Programs
A wellspring of growth, the Innovations Center presents different perspectives on how to create game-changing offerings. Your managers will find a multitude of thought-provoking concepts and valuable resources they can use to help define strategy, actively manage for creativity, and improve innovation processes.
The Innovation Center divides the content into three sections:
- Strategy: Explores how to identify innovation opportunities and formulate an innovation game plan.
- Management: Describes how to develop a climate that fosters creativity and manage the productive tension that results.
- Process: Examines how to mitigate risk through early prototyping and the importance of close collaboration with customers.
The Innovation Center features the unique
Managers’ Toolkit with dedicated assets to help managers “take it to the team” with Conversation Starters to email to colleagues and team members, and Facilitation Guides for classroom training. The Toolkit ensures that managers make the most of the Center’s resources to drive innovation and growth in their organizations.
Provocative Ideas and Best Practices from Experts
The Innovation Center draws on the work of recognized foremost thinkers in the field of innovation.
- Warren Bennis, University of Southern California, on creating a culture of growth
- Scott Anthony, President, Innosight and co-author of Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change (Harvard Business Press)
- Clayton M.Christensen,Co-Founder, Innosight and co-author of Seeing What ’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change (Harvard Business Press)
- Gary Hamel, Founder, Strategos and author of The Future of Management (Harvard Business Press)
- Dorothy Leonard, HBS, William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, and author of Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and Transfer Enduring Business Wisdom (Harvard Business Press)
- Stefan Thomke, HBS, William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration
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