Agile Innovation course, 2017-18 Accelerate innovation flow as a business strategy

Course program:

1. Innovation and performance. Creating value from the beginning. Initial self evaluation: Our innovation culture.

2. Strategy & innovation. Structuring the process. The 9 key elements.

3. Support processes: Organizing economical and strategic intelligence. Product strategy & portfolio management. Technology and Innovation stream management.

4. Agile Innovation; Lean Processes. Innovation vs. contin-uous improvement, (Kaizen). Lean startup. Lean and ag-ile tools.

5. Open Innovation. Ideas and opportunities generation and selection. Voice of customer. Expectations. Tree of ideas and diagram of affinities . Questionnaire of KANO. QFD relations.

6. Design and “Design Thinking”. Synthesize learning, quickly creating tests and prototypes. Differentiation and brand value. Test concepts with end users. The power of stories.

7. Projects and program management. Projects, programs and funnel management, selection and prioritization. Methodologies PMBOK, tools: PRINCE2 and agile man-agement SCRUM.

8. Eliminating barriers. How to remove innovation barriers. Barriers coming from people, from organization and out-side barriers. Organization maturity. Cultural and finan-cial barriers: case of Spain.

9. Knowledge management and intangibles. The invisible balance sheet. Knowledge: from tacit to explicit, manag-ing the creation and use of knowledge. Facilitating the virtuous circle.

10. How to measure innovation? Measures and perfor-mance indicators. Strategic system of measures. Use of Evaluation tool, 6 and 12 axes, to evaluate global innova-tion process. Taking actions.

11. Innovation is a change. Management commitment. Cul-ture and change management . The practical implemen-tation of change. Process integration and integrated har-monic direction.

12. Sustaining acquired improvements. Evaluation tool. Conclusions.

International experience to convey how to manage and improve the process: Both the course and the additional support are based on international experience and excellence. There are many proven ideas to implement when you return to your organization. In addition, we help you identify barriers, habits and paradigms which are opposed to innovation.

Innovation and agility: What distinguishes companies that continuously generate profits , is their capacity for innovation and their agility.

The course brings the elements to build an active process based on the fusion of the two concepts:

Innovation + Agility = Agile Innovation

Innovation is a strategic process. Innovation is not the result of genius, chance or luck, actually it is a process. Linked to strategy.

A management process in the centre of the company, improving growth, competitiveness and the creation of:

Innovation culture Successfully innovating, managing continuously a flow of projects and programs to:

Innovate in products or services. Make something new.

New market positioning. Innovating value proposition to clients and market positioning.

Doing things differently. Innovate internal processes.

Change paradigm. Create a new "mental model"

The course: This course has been running since 2006. We are redesign-ing and perfecting it every year from the experiences with the participating companies and organizations. (See refer-ences)

Can be arranged on request for groups of 6 -15 people, from one or more companies or organizations.

Can be adapted to specific needs, and be presented be-tween 16 and 24 hours, 2 full days or programmed for 4-6 sessions of 4 hours.

Our methodology includes meeting with companies before and after the course. First to agree with the priorities of the company, in fact, to ensure that their expectations and needs will be met.

The post meeting serves to guide and help participants to take full advantage in the implementation of concrete ac-tions resulting from the course.

Innovation & performance in harmony www.fguell.com

Tel.: +34 609 303 683. info@ fguell.com © 2017 Francesc Güell. Innovation and performance in harmony. All Rights Reserved

Francesc Güell Wide experience as exec-utive officer and director of international specialty chemicals and pharma-

ceutical companies.

With his own consulting firm he has provided sup-port and assistance to companies in industrial sectors as chemistry, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and perfumery, deter-gents, food and consumption, transportation, equip-ment, glass, electricity, industrial systems, electron-ics and others, in topics as: Innovation and agile innovation processes, operational excellence, knowledge, change and integrated business man-

agement.

He was associated to Cinergence, Delos Partnership

and collaborated with Oliver Wight EAME.

He was Managing director of Goldschmidt in Spain, Managing director of ODG Witco Europe, member of the Steering Committee of Witco GmbH, Global

Business Team in Witco ODG (USA).

Before, Managing Director of Rewo Química and Director of the chemical division of Schering Spain, and international manager in Hispano Química

Houghton.

Member of ACCID, Commission of intangibles. Founding partner of Integral Management Forum. He was president of the Organizing Committee of CE-SIO World Congress of Surfactants 1996 in Barcelo-na, vice-president of the Spanish Surfactants Ass.

(AEPSAT) and member of Fedequim.

Graduate as Chemical Engineer, postgraduate in ESADE Business School in Business Administration and Master in Knowledge Management by the ICT-

UPC in 2002.

He participated in numerous programs, seminars and courses at ESADE, IESE, EADA, APD, and the MCE

(Management Centre Europe) in Brussels.

Author of articles, presentations and courses on innovation in the chemical industry, innovation in strategic management, integrated models of busi-ness, knowledge management, change management

and excellence in business processes.

Objectives.

In the course you will learn to: Structuring or improving the process of agile

innovation with international experience, while improving performance.

Reduce time to market Reduce launching failures Reduce losses in investments Increase productivity of innovation pro-

cess Increase “new revenues”

Accelerate innovation flow driven by strategy

Organize and structure the generation and se-lection of ideas and oriented design.

Manage economic and strategic 'intelligence'.

Listen to the ‘voice of customer’, analyse ex-pectations and use of design tools. Design thinking. Kano and QFD.

Filter and select ideas, create ' business filters' and move from ideas to projects

Manage projects and programs and the innova-tion funnel, using methodologies as PMBOK, tools as PRINCE2 and agile process SCRUM.

Manage risk, uncertainty, costs and resources of multiple projects.

Measure the innovation process. Using our Assessment Tool and the 'innovation culture' test.

How to remove barriers to innovation and knowledge, based on change management and work of high performance teams.

“...This course is what most helped us not to waste resources and significantly in-crease the % of final success.”

Innovation and performance in harmony Francesc Güell

Agile Innovation course, 2017-18 Accelerate innovation flow as a business strategy

Innovation & performance in harmony www.fguell.com

Tel.: +34 609 303 683. info@ fguell.com © 2017 Francesc Güell. Innovation and performance in harmony. All Rights Reserved

Referències: Almirall - Prodesfarma Alcahuz Distribuciones Antonio Puig S.A. Arbora & Ausonia Astra-Zeneca Aventis Boehringer Ingelheim CAF Chupa Chups S.A. Cristalerías de Mataró Farma Lepori S.A. Fenoplástica S.A. Ferro España S.A. Finaf.– Farma Lepori. Fundació Jaume Casade-mont. Fundació Joan Salvador Gavina Fundación Prevent Galde s.l. Privata Glaxo SmithKline Grefusa S.A. IAF ICI España - Uniqema IIR España Inspiralia.- Pera Spain Interni Grupo. Johnson & Johnson Esp. Johnson Mathey Laboratorios Ordesa Legrand Española Levi Strauss EMEA Lonza Biologics Merck Generics Messier-Dowty Internat. Persan S.A. Pikolin S.A. Repsol S.A. Sanofi Aventis Sara Lee Schneider Electric S.A. Siemens VDO España Snecma Moteurs Soler & Palau S.A. Solvay T-Systems Iberia