The Innovative Organization

Competitive advantage is strongest when you and your team are motivated by innovation. As the market, technology, and business opportunities rapidly change, business innovation and strategy require modern leaders who are apt at leveraging disruptive innovation to sustain business agility. To stay relevant in today’s evolving market, complacency is not an option.

The Innovation Organization program is an executive training opportunity designed to teach leaders the fundamentals of innovation strategy while focusing on effective leadership and entrepreneurship. In this program, you will discover revolutionary ways to encourage and apply innovation management skills that equip you to drive business strategy and manage business risks within your organization.

The innovation training will empower you to be an innovative leader who celebrates and prioritizes sustaining innovation culture and ideas. As part of your executive development, you will design your innovation glide path and access mentorship by Professor Jerry Engel, an internationally recognized expert on innovation. Leave the program with a skilled ability to identify innovation opportunities that will codify your company’s resilience and sustain innovation as the center of your business model.

Foster and Accelerate Innovation

Develop new innovation through strategic management techniques that go beyond erratic innovation to explore radical and even disruptive opportunities.

Identify & Seize New Business Opportunities

Acquire real-world tools and frameworks to spot trends and potential sources of innovation to then conceive, innovate, and push through new ideas in your organization.

Capitalize on Internal Innovation

Use rapid concept testing and when appropriate, spin out new ventures to realize internal innovation.

Drive a Culture of Innovation

Develop the influence to move your organization using new leadership skills for creating a culture of innovation through change management.

Sustain Innovation through Strategy

Learn how your organization can harness and benefit from strategies and frameworks like Lean Innovation, Design Thinking, Open innovation, Business Model experimentation and actively engagement with local and global innovation ecosystems. Leverage the culture to sustain innovation and become known as the innovation center within your organization.

Experience Cutting-Edge Theory Combined with Practical Applications

Learn to identify profitable ventures, raise investment capital, manage the deal process, and build effective leadership teams. Finance innovation through corporate venture capital and early collaboration with innovative startups.

The Innovative Organization provides an optimal educational foundation to advance to other Berkeley Executive Education offerings including the Venture Capital Executive Program, and Corporate Business Model Innovation.

PROGRAM TOPICS

The Innovative Organization program curriculum covers the following topics:

TOPIC 1 | Your Innovation Primer

• The challenge and opportunity of innovation
• Models of innovation: Mature companies and startup ventures
• Open innovation
• Customer-Centric innovation
• Live cases in innovation: Major corporations panel

TOPIC 2 | Recognizing Opportunities and Organizing for Innovation

• Opportunity, strategy, and assessment
• Trendspotting
• Corporate venturing
• Technology-Driven innovation trends & case studies
• Live cases in innovation: Entrepreneurs panel

TOPIC 3 | The Innovation Process: Tools for Strategy & Implementation

• Organization design of innovation
• The lean launchpad
• Lean innovation management
• Applying the innovation process to business model creation
• Business model discovery and transformation
• Sustainability as an innovation strategy
• Live cases in innovation: Venture capitalists

TOPIC 4 | Innovation in Action

• Power and influence
• Mastering the influence to move the organization
• Live cases in innovation: Your personal innovation plan