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INNOVATION & CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP (ICE)
Curriculum
ICE Program Objectives
• Help companies learn how to develop a capability for breakthrough innovation that is sustainable
• Recognize the innovation competency as an emerging business function
Audience
• Senior leadership who are concerned with building an innovation capability in their companies--building infrastructure, developing and overseeing a portfolio of major innovations, and who set strategy in accordance with the innovation mandate of the company. (2-3 senior leaders are welcome to attend. We strongly suggest that at least 2 attend together.)
• Project teams (one 2 or 3 person team from each company). Note: While the team must be identified, the project need not. Each team should come to the program with two or three project ideas they have identified.
High-Level Program Structure and Description
The ICE instructional model promotes building infrastructure and developing and overseeing a portfolio of major innovations and strategy in accordance with the innovation mandate of the company. The workshops will be interactive and participatory, presented by expert academics and practitioners in the field. Corporate involvement will occur at two organizational levels simultaneously over an eight-month period:
- Senior leaders engage in sessions and activities associated with understanding and developing a management system for innovation. This system would operate in parallel with the dominant management system of operational excellence that pervades most established companies. They apply their learning to the task of initiating or improving the innovation functions in their companies over the course of the program.
- In parallel, a separate track of sessions will be held with the project team to help them learn appropriate processes for managing a project with breakthrough potential. They will apply these tools to a project considered to have breakthrough potential with their company.
- Twice during the program, the two groups meet together.
Senior leaders are taught how to evaluate and work with project teams, in accordance with appropriate governance criteria, metrics, and cultural norms that encourage breakthrough innovation.
| Senior Management's Track: |
Project Managers' Track: |
Executive Seminar on Innovation and Corporate Entrepreneurship
Three-session commitment:
- 3 days (program launch)
- 2 days (mid-program with project teams)
- 2 days (at end of project
level program)
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Developing Breakthrough
Innovation Projects
Eight-session commitment:
- Eight, 2-day sessions, separated by 4-5 weeks, with ongoing interaction between sessions with program facilitators.
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Total Program Length: 8 Months |
2008 Innovation & Corporate Entrepreneurship Curriculum & Calendar
Red= Senior Mgmt Modules; Blue= Project team modules
Module |
Objectives |
Deliverable |
08-09 Dates |
I |
Building an Innovation Capability |
Assess Company Capability for Innovation, Develop work plan. |
Sept 3-5 |
I |
Introduction: Framing Corporate Entrepreneurship: Overview, building presentation skills, and developing an entrepreneurial mindset. |
Two or three opportunities, approved for consideration by company sponsor |
Sept 9-10 |
II |
Discovery 1.0: From Idea to Opportunity: Introduction to the Business Concept. Focus on Elaborating Ideas into Business Platforms and Qualifying Ideas. |
Develop Business Concepts, select one idea. |
Oct 14-15 |
III |
Discovery 2.0: From Opportunity to Experiment: Introduction to the Learning Plan. Focus on Market Uncertainties |
Present Business Concept/ Elevator Pitch for selected idea, Initiate Learning Loop I |
Nov 18-19 |
IV |
Incubation 1.0 Introduction to Business Proposals, Focus on Resource and Organizational Uncertainties |
Present LL1, initiate LL 2 |
January 7-8 |
II |
Coaching and Evaluating Breakthrough Projects |
Progress Report on Innovation Management System Development |
January 8-9 |
V |
Personal Entrepreneurial Leadership |
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January 27-28 |
VI |
Incubation 2.0: Developing the Platform Level Business Proposal. |
Present LL2, Initiate DDP |
Feb 10-12 |
VII |
Acceleration 1.0: From Venture to Growth Business. |
Present Business Proposal, Begin Initial Business Plan. |
March 24-25 |
VIII |
Venture Competition |
Present Platform Level Business Proposal and Initial Business Plan |
Apr 28-29 |
III |
Jumpstarting the Innovation Portfolio |
Progress Report on Innovation Management System Development. |
April 29-30 |
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