Open Innovation for Leaders

By the end of this Open Innovation for Leaders training course, participants will be able to:

• Apply strategic analysis tools to identify innovation opportunities
• Engage confidently in high-level discussions on open innovation strategy
• Cultivate a workplace culture that supports creativity, experimentation, and collaboration
• Build and manage external partnerships for innovation success
• Design and lead open innovative initiatives within their organization

This training course is designed for active and motivated senior executives, who are willing to contribute to business debate, and bring their own thoughts to discussions on challenges and opportunities of modern organisational change and innovation. This is a collegiate environment, mixing a relaxed atmosphere with challenging intellectual content. The training course will blend workshop formats that will stimulate and stretch participants, including (but not limited to); formal training course style presentations, structured discussions, informal debates, along with solo work and group exercises. Workshops will use a mix of printed material, slides, activities and videos.

Organizations sending delegates to this training course will benefit through:

• Increased leadership capacity to drive innovation strategy and transformation
• Enhanced ability to identify and manage external innovation sources
• Stronger alignment between business objectives and innovation initiatives
• Broader organizational culture of agility, collaboration, and calculated risk-taking
• Higher returns from partnerships, co-creation models, and idea networks
• Accelerated development of innovative products, services, and business models

Participants will gain:

• A strong foundation in open innovation frameworks and leadership techniques
• Confidence to lead innovative discussions at executive and strategic levels
• New skills in stakeholder engagement and managing innovative ecosystems
• Insights from global best practices and multi-industry case studies
• A professional network of peers facing similar innovation challenges
• Greater value in their current leadership role and future career trajectory

This training course is relevant for any manager or executive who is tasked now or is expected to be involved in the future with projects that require innovation, business and service development and organisational change. Participants could attend from across the organisation, as innovation impacts not just strategic planning, marketing and business development, but units such as operations, human resources, finance and legal. 

This KC Academy Open Innovation for Leaders training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• General Managers and Executives responsible for leading innovation & change
• Project Managers
• Business Development Managers
• Business Unit Leaders and Commercial Managers
• Marketing Managers (Product and Service Managers)
• Relationship, Partnership and Contract Managers