Future Workshops Topics

There will be recurring workshops on new business creation and open innovation. In addition, this is a list of possible future workshops topics:

• Market vision: spotting and seizing opportunities for strategic growth and business model innovation
• Scenarios and trend analysis to inspire and inform innovation
• Beyond product innovation: processes, business models, platforms, solutions, services, experiences etc.
• Rewards and recognition to stimulate innovation (KPIs, performance evaluation, career track etc.)
• Evaluating breakthrough projects
• Stimulating and managing internal networks for innovation and entrepreneurship
• Stimulating and managing the front end of breakthrough innovation
• Designing the front end: effective idea management processes, challenges & campaigns, and online systems
• Engendering a climate for creativity and innovation (freedom, challenge, risk, trust, debate, idea time, leadership, recognition, organizational support etc.)
• Understanding the palette of exploratory methods for generating customer insights: trends & scenarios, ethnography, personas, mapping user objectives, co-creation, and prototyping
• Adopting a customer perspective, e.g. creating customer solutions and services
• Effective collaboration practices and critical success factors for partnering
• Joint ideation session: Developing value propositions and new solutions for each other and in partnership
• Transitioning to an open process for innovation
• Learning-based planning and other alternatives to the stage gate for uncertain (breakthrough) projects
• Green innovation: innovative practices, processes and technologies to reduce carbon footprint