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Innovation in a VUCA World

Develop and promote a disruptive mindset in your organization that supports innovation and sustainable growth.

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The Key Issues

In a VUCA world – marked by Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity – leaders need to know how to lead their innovation efforts through these turbulent times. They need to know which methodologies and frameworks will work for them. Know how to adapt their organizations and processes. How to lead people in the origination and which culture will prepare for sustaining success.

Driving innovation projects

Change
management

Design
thinking

Key Competences​

Risk
management

Innovation project management strategies

The Right Programme for You

You are a senior manager with 5+ years experience leading teams. You lead your organization’s innovation challenges, and you want to get an innovation toolkit to drive new initiatives and projects.
  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

You will learn how to use Blue Ocean strategies in your role.

Use the Stage-Gate process for the long term innovation.

Implement the 8 functions of innovation leadership.

Practice innovation tools, frameworks and methods.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Take advantage of the ideas and concepts of most innovative companies in the world
  • Master a range of innovation leadership competencies
  • Understand how leaders in an organization can make or break innovation
  • Learn how to create an innovative culture for your organization
  • Be able to remove critical barriers to innovation and get the organization’s buy-in on innovation projects
  • Develop innovative thinking, planning and implementation skills
  • Deep-dive into innovation methodologies and frameworks
  • Benefit from immediate feedback to help deliver on your innovation challenges
  • Know how to benefit of the multiple innovation resources - both internal and external
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

Programme Details

The Innovation in a VUCA World is a 3 day hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former management experience in international companies.
The programme is structured in 3 parts, each designed to ensure an effective training experience:

Pre-attendance

  • Pre-workshop participant on-line questionnaire
  • Innovation self-assessment test
  • Reading of selected relevant articles
  • Participants to prepare an innovation project to individually work on during the workshop

During attendance

  • Highly interactive presentations
    Best practice sharing and peer learning
  • Group discussion and hands-on work in syndicate groups
  • Practise of innovation tools, frameworks and methods
  • Individual work on own innovation project

Post-attendance

  • Post-workshop audit after 6 weeks
  • Receive additional reading material
  • Coaching by MCE faculty (optional: additional fee)

 

Nine Programme Modules

  • Definitions of innovation and the importance for organizations
  • VUCA world realities and related innovation challenges
  • Framing your innovation challenge
  • Innovation myth
  • ​Innovation language
  • Key success factors and obstacles to innovation  
  • Innovation strategies: linking innovation and business strategy
  • Dealing with risk in a VUCA world
  • Protecting innovation
  • The innovation radar: Areas of innovation
  • Blue ocean strategy
  • Design thinking
  • Outcome driven innovation
  • Connecting with your customers
  • Ideation techniques and idea screening 
  • Open versus closed innovation
  • ​​​​​​​Challenging industry conventions
  • The innovation process framework
  • Managing innovation portfolios
  • The long road: Stage-Gate process
  • Innovation project management
  • Resource mapping: human and financial resources
  • External innovation resources
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • ​​​​​​Organization types: weaving innovation into business 
  • Communication and physical environment
  • Innovation networks 
  • Innovation incubators
  • Eight functions of innovation leadership
  • Developing an innovation culture
  • Making innovation work: executing innovation
  • Performance metrics
  • Innovation audit
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Faculty

Bettina
Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Face-to-Face
3 days
€3,450

Date
City
Location
Stage
06 Oct – 08 Oct 2025
Amsterdam
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City
Location
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06 Oct – 08 Oct 2025
Amsterdam
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