Managing Changethrough Adaptive Innovation

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Objectives

  • Set the conditions for transitioning to a culture of nimbleness, adaptability and experimentation.
  • Develop a greater awareness and understanding of the trends and forces affecting society, the industry, the company, and the internal organizational environment.
  • Develop a greater appreciation of how these changes occur, how they can be harnessed, and how to lead an organization through them, particularly those changes that are random and uncertain.
  • Provide a framework of common tools, skills, and language to guide in initiating and implementing deliberate change and innovative processes at all levels of an organization.
  • Develop and apply tools for experimentation, exploration, and trial and error.

Course Outline

Day 1: Day One The Adaptation Imperative and the Adaptive Business Cycle

  • The nature of change, randomness and uncertainty
  • Why adaptation is required to survive and thrive in business
  • The Adaptive Business Cycle: observation, orientation, decision, action
  • Integrating change and innovation with governance and strategy
  • Leading and motivating organizations, teams, and individuals to leverage trends and exploit change
  • Building a culture of flexibility, adaptability and experimentation through an acceptance of trial and error, uncertainty, and prudent risk-taking

Day 2: Day Two Observation: Seeking Changes and Opportunities

  • Situational analysis, environmental scanning, and opportunity search
  • Sources of trends and changes
  • Change dimensions and scenarios
  • Deductive process for leveraging observations into opportunities and threats
  • Active versus passive adaptation, reacting to change versus shaping change
  • Exploring for opportunities and threats through probing and trial and error

Day 3: Day Three

Orientation: Turning Opportunities Into Ideas for Thriving

  • Turning opportunities and threats into ideas for initiatives, projects, and innovations
  • Assessing meaning and fit of potential initiatives, projects, and innovations: orientation questionnaire
  • First level analysis and prioritization of initiatives, projects, and innovations
  • Experimenting with change versus attempting to manage change deliberately
  • Validation of initiatives and ideas against strategy and strategic objectives
  • Governance checks and decision points

Day 4: Day Four

Decision: Going from Innovative Ideas to Specific Actions

  • Applying the estimate process to generate and analyze options
  • Introducing the action planning worksheet
  • Developing decision-making criteria
  • Sequential versus parallel initiatives
  • Conducting risk-reward analysis and identifying critical conditions
  • Decision-making on when and whether to proceed with initiatives and changes on a definite or experimental basis

Day 5: Day Five Action: Successful Implementation of Adaptive Innovations

  • Action planning using the action planning worksheet
  • Understanding and applying the distinctions between purpose, objective(s), outputs/deliverables, and inputs
  • Developing descriptions, objective indicators of success/progress, verification metrics, and confirming critical conditions
  • Creating and evaluating pilot initiatives and gradual changes
  • Developing a project/implementation structure and plan on the basis of the aforementioned analysis and planning

Certificate

  • Copex Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course.

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