blinab virtual in-house Innovation Academy.
In the perspective of corporate life-long learning, the blinab company is proud to have assisted a large number of major company clients in several sectors of the process industries to acquire a state-of-the-art operational knowledge base in the topical area of Innovation & Technology Management. In the present virtual society and in a global corporate perspective, our preferred instrument for such knowledge transfer, apart from traditional consultancy services, is our blinab virtual in-house Innovation Academy.
Enhance your corporate innovation management skills and organizational capabilities with the Innovation Academy. The overall purpose of the Innovation Academy is to give the participants improved theoretical and operational knowledge in the topical area of “Management of Innovation and Technology in the Process Industries”. The key objectives are:
To create a consensus on important company innovation management issues drawn from individual studies and interactive discussions during the seminars.
To develop an action plan for improved company innovation management best practices and a foundation for individual further studies.
Setting the stage
This Innovation Academy is tailor-made to the process-industrial environment, and the seminars address the unique innovation management best practices and methodologies relevant to the Process Industries. The advantage of the in-house Innovation Academy is that the program can be not only tailored to your company’s specific needs but also adapted to your company’s specific process-industrial environment. Furthermore, the confidentiality aspect of in-house learning is also important in R&D organizations, where an open atmosphere for sharing knowledge is vital.
A company Innovation Academy – the blinab way
The program is developed and planned together with company CTO or one representative from the company R&D organization, giving us an opportunity to understand the specific needs of the R&D organization within its operating context. Alternative topical areas of Innovation Management can then be discussed in order to tailor a program to the needs of management team in an “à la carte” approach. As another option, a selection can be made directly by you from exploring our areas of expertise presented on our website, alternatively from the following list of optional topics, or by us in one of our pre-set “menus”:
Nurturing a sustainable corporate innovation-oriented culture in the process industries
Technology Roadmapping and the development of a Strategic Research Agenda
Managing process innovation – from idea generation to implementation
Managing product innovation of non-assembled product – From customer understanding to product launch
Application development – adding value to customer products and production systems
Contemporary Quality Function Deployment for Product and Process Innovation
Success factors and key performance indicators (KPI) for innovation
An Innovation Academy includes a number of in-house seminars in the course of one year. The academy form of learning is in the spirit of HAGAKURE (the book of the samurai), relying on “learning through discussion” of selected topics but could also include complementary individual studies of select papers or books in-between seminars. The Innovation Academy is planned and implemented in your organization by Prof. Dr. Thomas Lager, an experienced scholar and management consultant in the area of Innovation & Technology Management in the Process Industries. The working language can be either Swedish or English.
ACADEMY: An institution of higher learning (Plato’s school of Philosophy, founded 385 BC at Academia)