The course is intended for entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, managers and staff members with an interest in successfully driving innovation through collaboration in their organizations and with other organizations.
The human element
Nadine Roijakkers, program director yOUrMBA: "Finding innovative solutions for the complex challenges that organizations now face - small or large, in the private sector, in government or in social services - requires people to jointly develop and realize a vision. The human, the human element in collaborative innovation, is central to this course.
Value creation through collaborative innovation is only possible by managing and controlling the innovation process and collaboration. In a context, environment that stimulates collaborative innovation. This places special demands on competencies. Think of the ability of yourself to work together or the ability of others to further develop their competencies".
Working on self-awareness
Diana Rus, innovation manager and university lecturer: "Participants in the module build on their own competencies and understand how you can stimulate competency development within your organization and with your organizational partners.
This requires the participants to actively work on developing self-awareness about their own strengths and to work on their own weaknesses and areas for improvement. Not too theoretical but in practice by reflecting on their own actions. This makes the course hands-on: students work with the literature on their own innovation challenges". Ward Ooms, university lecturer: "In addition, the course includes videos in which practical speakers talk about the human factor in innovation”.
The content
Participants receive an academic and practical answer to questions such as:
- What are the skills and capabilities of successful innovators? How can these be improved?
- How do you select partners and what pitfalls should you be careful of?
- How do you put the human element at the center of the collaboration? What are common barriers and how can you overcome them?
- What are the competencies of successful employees? How can you further improve them?
- How can we operate successfully on difficult relational issues, such as conflicts, lack of involvement or failure?
- How can we become more successful collaborative leaders and create an environment conducive to collaboration?
Diana Rus: "The content is extremely suitable for innovation professionals who are willing to reflect on their own assumptions, experiment and are therefore open to real professional and personal change.
The result
Participants get useful insights such as:
- Identify the most important opportunities and barriers to collaborative innovation that arise from the 'human side'.
- Learn how to overcome these major barriers.:
- Identifying and deploying the key skills needed for innovation in yourself and others.
- Using important collaboration tools and techniques in your own collaborative innovation projects.
- Developing your own shared leadership skills in the field of innovation.
- Creating a context conducive to collaborative innovation.
The course can be followed separately; the costs are then € 1,750. After successful completion of the four courses of the CPP Innovation Management, you will be awarded the diploma CPP Innovation Management. This diploma can be entered as a full specialization in yOUrMBA.
Nadine Roijakkers: "Of course, nothing is as practical as a good theory. The most important condition is that participants want to (learn to) shine and collectively lead joint innovation in an ever-changing and challenging world. They want to make a difference. As a result, in the end they make the difference”.
About Nadine Roijakkers
Dr. Nadine Roijakkers is program director yOUrMBA at the Open University in Heerlen, the Netherlands. In addition to her career in academia, she was senior strategy consultant at Atos-KPMG Consulting in the Netherlands, where she advised global companies on their collaborative strategies and practices for a number of years. Roijakkers has published numerous articles and books on alliance management and (open) innovation management.
About Diana Rus
Dr. Diana Rus combines an academic career as a senior lecturer at the University of Groningen with a job as an innovation manager/managing partner at Creative Peas. Her passion is to bring ideas to life and help organizations to steer the innovation process. How? By combining the rigor of scientific research with a pragmatic focus on achieving tangible results.
About Ward Ooms
Dr. Ward Ooms is a university lecturer in Innovation Management at the Open University and program leader of the Bachelor of Business Administration program. As part of his research, Ward Ooms looks at the challenges involved in organizing innovation through collaboration between various partners, including innovation clusters and open innovation initiatives.