Dimension
Innovation Strategy
How organisations build the strategy, culture, capabilities and business models needed to make innovation an organisational capability rather than a collection of isolated initiatives.
Why do organisations invest in innovation yet struggle to make it part of how they actually operate?
The keynote promise
Innovation becomes strategic when it moves beyond individual projects and becomes part of how an organisation understands opportunities, builds capabilities, tests new ideas and creates new business models.
Background
Grounded in Dr Neo's career at Singapore Technologies, where he rose to Vice-President for New Business and Strategic Planning.
Methods Dr Neo has taught
- Design thinking
- Business modelling
- Lean LaunchPad
What the audience will learn
- How to think about innovation as an organisational capability
- The relationship between innovation strategy, organisational culture and business models
- How organisations can create pathways from ideas to validated opportunities
- Why innovation requires both experimentation and strategic discipline
- How leaders can connect innovation activity to longer-term organisational direction
Who it’s for
Business leaders, strategy teams, innovation leaders, transformation teams, MNCs, SMEs and organisations building or renewing their innovation capabilities.
Outcomes
- The means to pinpoint where ideas stall inside the organisation, between first idea and validated opportunity
- Questions for checking whether culture and business models support or undermine the innovation strategy
- Grounds for deciding which innovation initiatives to continue, scale or stop
- An approach to innovation that extends beyond individual projects
Format & customisation
- Format & duration
- This topic can be adapted to the event format and duration. Specific format availability is confirmed on enquiry — see formats.
- Customisation
- The emphasis can be adapted to the audience, sector, organisational context, event objective and level of technical depth. For example, the session can concentrate on innovation culture, business-model renewal or connecting innovation activity to strategic direction, for large organisations or SMEs.
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