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Innovation Thesis Masterclass

This masterclass helps you to define a clear mission and roadmap for your innovation strategy based on a desired future and innovation thesis.

presented by Chris Rudolph

This masterclass helps you to define a clear mission and roadmap for your innovation strategy based on a desired future and innovation thesis. Get a hands-on introduction to the methods & tools of corporate (innovation) foresight and learn how to apply trend analysis, scenario planning and growth field exploration.

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For whom did we design this course?

Organizations that not only want to bring the “next big thing” to market but also look for a way to become more strategic and decisive about their innovation decisions. This masterclass is tailored to C-level executives who set directions and budgets and are looking for a way to lay the groundwork for innovation strategy and accounting

C-Level Executives
  • Develop a rationale to prioritize one business strategy and/or technology path over the other
  • Become buzzword-savvy and know when and how trends are an opportunity, a threat or simply irrelevant to your organization
  • Avoid conflicting strategy goals or even unnecessary rivalry inside your company
    • Board of Directors
  • Discuss world views and trends that eventually end up in concrete decisions
  • Meet the standards of investors who are familiar with investment theses
  • Avoid to fall victim to short-term hypes and benefit from mid- and long-term innovation bets
    • Innovation Executives
  • Acquire knowledge and methods to define your desired future, innovation thesis and portfolio
  • Learn how to use an innovation thesis as a cradle for your innovation pipeline
  • Use your innovation thesis to align product managers and teams
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    Agenda of the day

    • Understand the external factors impacting your business
    • Know what trends will affect your industry the most
    • Picture how your user’s preferences change in the next 10 years
    • Describe what plausible futures you see and choose your desired future
    • Map out your existing and planned innovation initiatives and investments to assess them from the POV of your ‘desired future’
    • Understand how your existing innovation portfolio prepares you for staying competitive in the ‘desired future’
    • Define and prioritize the gaps and decide which you like to tackle in the short, mid, and long term.
    • Get to know the central building blocks of an innovation thesis
    • Compare innovation theses from industry practice
    • Define how you are going to use innovation to benefit from emerging trends/markets/tech and changing customer jobs
    • Ideate and map out the future arenas of your business
    • Identify the most promising growth areas for your business
    • Set up a (to-be) innovation portfolio based on your innovation thesis that is founded in the desired future

    How we balanced the design of this course:

    • Theory
    • Doing/Experimentation
    • Case Studies/Peer Learning
    • Reflection/Discussion

    What's in the package?

    Onboarding Session

    Our support team will do a tech and logistics onboarding session with all participants before the masterclass starts.

    Extensive Learning Materials

    You will receive PDFs of presentations, posters, and templates we use in the masterclass.

    Pre-Configured Miro Templates

    You will get access to pre-configured Miro boards with innovation frameworks for your own business design or innovation process.

    Post-Masterclass 1:1 Coaching

    If you want, you can make use of a 45 min one-on-one coaching session with one of the facilitators in the weeks after the course.

    Certificate of Completion

    You will receive an electronic letter and certificate of completion.

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    Next-Level Online Learning

    Our IRL trainings are always full highly interactive team work and experiential learning. That's why it was our ambition to create such a cutting edge experience remotely as well. To do this, we set up a live-streaming studio environment that allows us to create engaging, TV-like interactive learning experiences for you. So, we promise: you won't experience those standard and boring screen-share Zoom or Teams presentations with us.

    Tailored to your organization

    All of our courses and trainings are designed with internal innovators in large and mid-sized organizations in mind. We can tailor a version of the “Innovation Thesis Masterclass" that suits your organizations situation, needs, and industry context.

    For details please get in touch with us.

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