Innovation Partnerships:
The Masterclass Series.
Gain confidence to build, maintain and transition effective partnerships across the innovation cycle.
Innovation requires partnerships. If you're doing innovation, you're not doing it alone.
But (we don’t need to tell you…) partnering is hard.
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Current resources and approaches rarely cover the complex realities of partnering for innovation.
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Brilliant models such as ‘Business Model Innovation’, ‘Human-centred design’, ‘Service Design Blueprint’… none of these have fully prepared you for the complex realities of partnering for innovation. Without having a guiding map - that is the mix of frameworks, roles, ‘hardware’ and ‘software’ - innovators and entrepreneurs can easily encounter difficulties, and both your innovation and your relationships can hit a dead end!
This Masterclass will offer you a map for this uncharted territory. The participants will learn how to manage innovation partnerships as the partnership needs change across the innovation cycle. So they can get the most from their collaboration and expand and sustain the impact of their efforts. They will be introduced to practical tools, frameworks and processes to take their innovation partnerships to the next level.
Benefits for Participants
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How to anticipate the partnering challenges that occur at each stage of the innovation cycle (Prototype, Pilot & Scale) and how to navigate them.
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The benefits of mapping your Inner and Outer Value Networks.
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The 9 roles played in a Value Network, how your stakeholders each play a number of these roles at any one time and how their roles change over the innovation lifecycle.
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How to master the skills required to partner for innovation (P4I), and take away collaboration fears.
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How to deal with the ‘Hardware of P4I’: Effectively navigate value, risk and IP.
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How to deal with the ‘Software of P4I’: Build trust consciously and to see where power lies.
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Understanding partnership typologies and what might be the right one for your partnership.
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A certificate on course completion
Course Structure
This course is made up of and Introduction, 6 modules and a reflection session
Introductory Module:
Foundations of effective partnering
Module 1:
Cycles of innovation partnerships
Module 2:
The 9 Value Roles in innovation partnerships
Module 3:
Software of Trust, Power and Leadership
Module 4:
Create next stage Value Map
Module 5:
Hardware of risk & reward, structures & processes
Module 6:
Putting into Practice
Reflection Session
Tools
The following set of tools support application of the key concepts introduced under Innovation Value Roles. They are drawn from two key sources: The Innovation Partnerships Masterclass, and A new book, ‘Scaling Value’.These tools can be applied at each innovation stage, when roles and partnerships face transitions.
Testimonials
Innovation Partnerships the Masterclass Series has a really good balance between theory and practice
Innovation Lead
UN Agency
We received so many tools and templates which we can use after the course in our daily work, it's great to know you are leaving the training not only with knowledge, but also with working tools
Programme Manager,
Swiss Foundation
The course was well designed, rich in information (a blend of frameworks and illustrative applications), and as such an inspiring way to start/end the day. My personal highlight was a group exercise in which we used a case clinic to analyze a specific partnerships situation.
Associate Professor,
French Business School
Training Team
Ian Gray
Director at Gray Dot Catalyst
With over 15 years partnering and innovation experience, Ian has seen it all when it comes to partnering for innovation. He is an inventor, intrapreneur, mentor and trainer. He has developed innovation management guides, training courses and numerous tools and frameworks for innovators. He is on the board of the Partnership Brokers association and has brokered and supported innovation partnerships all over the world.
Michelle Halse
Director at Living Collaborations
Michelle is a global collaboration facilitator and an internationally Accredited Partnership Broker with over 25 years’ experience designing, facilitating and evaluating collaborations in social innovation, global health, international development and humanitarian action. From global education challenges, entrepreneurship networks, large-scale maternal health projects to legal industry innovation, Michelle has worked for many years to understand what it takes to make a collaboration successful.