The innovation skills programme is tailored to the specific needs of clients and will depend on their own priorities. Some may be establishing new teams, others seeking to improve communication with the rest of the organisation, or how to develop more ‘big hit’ innovations rather than incremental improvements.

A typical programme could be structured in the following way, over three or more days, either consecutively or paced to allow for teams to consolidate their learning.

Day 1: Consulting Skills and Innovation Projects. Create with participants a common language for how to think about their role as consultants to the organisation and how this role is best performed in the special context of innovation projects.

Day 2: Building the Frameworks. Decide on the practical ways in which the team will operate: how they will generate and advance new ideas; how they will prioritise/choose the best ideas; how they will lever the skills and knowledge of the organization to best effect; how they should use market research and financial information appropriately; how they will engage with decision-makers and how they will meet realistic business objectives for innovation.

Day 3: Putting it into Practice. Work with the real projects on which clients are currently engaged to build specific skills – developing ideas, running workshops, selling ideas, creating watertight arguments and building financial cases, backed-up by lots of ideas and examples of how to put things into effect.

As part of this process detailed outputs will be produced to ensure that the ideas and processes generated are captured and that a workable innovation framework is in place.

We can be available for refresher sessions or to provide continued support with pipeline reviews or with progressing individual propositions.