Knowledge Creation & Innovation Management
The Fundamentals - (2 or 3 days)
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Target Audience:
Middle management and senior executive teams that want to understand the factors impacting the creative output of their staff and the production of innovative products and services.
Participants Will Learn:
- How knowledge creation is uniquely different from other organizational functions
- What constraints exist that limit the knowledge creation ability of employees
- What constraints exist that limit the organizations' ability to apply new knowledge to innovation
- What external factors limit the time-to-profit and ROI on innovative products and services
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Modules
- What is knowledge creation and it's role in innovation?
- How are new ideas created?
- How does management impact idea creation?
- Who is a knowledge creator in your organization?
- How does the knowledge creator impact innovation?
- What is the difference between intelligent and creative employees?
- Management of Creative versus Intelligent employees
- How does the life-cycle learning mode of your employees affect their knowledge output?
- How does risk perception affect output of innovation?
- What is the best way to measure and control risk in innovation?
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Fostering Innovation through Un-Management
(2 or 3 days) |
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Target Audience:
Middle management team needing to increase the creative output and innovation capacity of their staff.
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Participants Will Learn:
- How knowledge creation demands specific un-management conditions
- What is unique about the process of knowledge creation and innovation
- How a probabilistic approach to knowledge creation management affects employee output
- How to understand and overcome cognitive and pedagogical constraints to knowledge creation
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Modules
- Understanding the Employee as a Knowledge Creator
- How does management impact idea application?
- What kind of knowledge worker is your employee?
- Understanding the highly creative employee
- Intelligent & creative employees: the difference
- How to effective manage cross-domain synergy?
- How to effective manage 'scaffolding'?
- Understanding 'Un-Management'
- How do you manage things you cannot know or predict?
- What is the architecture of un-managed spaces?
- What are the goals and requirements of un-managed employees?
- How can un-management lead to continuous breakthrough performance?
- What is the probabilistic nature of knowledge creation?
- How are innovation & knowledge opposing in nature?
- How do you optimize probabilistic output?
- How do you structure chaos?
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Industrial Innovation Through Natural Capital
(2 days) |
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Target Audience:
Senior executive management teams in the IT, R&D, manufacturing, industrial design and engineering sectors that need to both accelerate the rate of development of innovative 'green' products and services and integrate such practices into their own management systems.
Participants Will Learn:
- What the Natural Capital paradigm is and how it can help them re-assess cost and revenue analysis
- How to transition from a production-based revenue structure to a continuous flow revenue structure
- How to re-engineer existing product and service functions as closed loop systems
- How to accelerate innovation through natural capital design, funding and marketing
- How to increase ROI and decrease time-to-profit by using the natural capital paradigm throughout the organization
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Modules:
- Understanding The Natural Capital Paradigm
- Constraints to existing Industrial Capital cost analysis and resource allocation
- Introduction to closed-loop systems
- Introduction to bio-mimicry design principles
- Existing Natural Capital best-practices
- Understanding Natural Capital Accounting
- Calculating Ecological Footprints
- Non-linear systems analysis - calculating cross domain natural debt inheritance
- Natural Capital funding principles
- Efficiency & Waste analysis
- Understanding Strategic Innovation through Natural Capital
- Organizational Processes & Natural Capital Innovations
- Implementing Natural Capital awareness in the organization
- Increasing Human Capital productivity
- Understanding the Market for Natural Capital Innovation
- Increasing ROI and decreasing time-to-profit through Natural Capital innovation frameworks
- A market analysis of Natural Capital innovation
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Social Dynamics of Knowledge Management
(2 or 3 days) |
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Target Audience:
Senior executive management teams that have already or are planning to, in the near future, implement a KM portal for their organization
Participants Will Learn:
- The law of comprehensive plausibility and how to implement it in their organization
- How to use discourse analysis to positively impact knowledge sharing
- How to foster a self-corrective knowledge culture knowledge
- How to develop hyper-goal oriented communities of practice
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Modules
- Understanding & Communicating Knowledge
- The path from experience to knowledge
- What is the language of knowledge management
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- What are the different steps by which knowledge is acquired?
- What is critical discourse analysis?
- Is the organization separable from its 'discourse'?
- How does knowledge discourse affect performance?
- Knowledge & Organizational Learning
- Fostering a culture of knowledge
- What is an organizational culture of knowledge and how can it be measured and evaluated?
- Communities of practice & organizational learning
- What is the relationship between KM and organizational learning?
- Leadership Strategies for successful KM
- What is the nature of 'rapid learning'?
- How does positively managing curiosity affect KM?
- What motivates employees to adopt new KM strategies and systems?
- Optimizing KM through Hyper-goal alignment
- What is hyper-goal alignment?
- What is the relationship between strategic learning, KM and hyper-goal alignment?
- Why is hyper-goal alignment critical to optimizing performance of KM systems?
- How can management of social factors in KM lead to breakthrough performance?
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