Innovation Management Systems

Program Overview

This comprehensive program covers innovation frameworks, idea management systems, and corporate entrepreneurship methodologies that enable organizations to develop sustainable competitive advantages. Students learn design thinking methodologies, lean startup principles, and open innovation strategies that facilitate systematic innovation across organizational functions.

The curriculum includes intellectual property management, R&D portfolio optimization, and innovation metrics development to measure and enhance innovation performance. Participants explore corporate venture capital approaches, startup partnerships, and innovation lab establishment strategies that bridge internal capabilities with external innovation ecosystems.

Designed for innovation directors, R&D managers, and executives fostering innovation culture, this program includes exercises designing innovation processes, evaluating disruptive technologies, and creating innovation governance structures that balance creative exploration with strategic discipline.

Core Competencies Developed

Innovation Process Design

Architect systematic innovation processes that capture ideas, evaluate opportunities, and accelerate development while balancing creative freedom with strategic alignment and resource constraints.

Portfolio Management

Optimize innovation portfolios by balancing incremental improvements with breakthrough initiatives, managing risk profiles, and allocating resources across diverse innovation projects and timeframes.

Culture Development

Foster organizational cultures that encourage experimentation, embrace calculated risk-taking, and support innovation initiatives through leadership practices and structural enablers.

Open Innovation Strategy

Leverage external innovation sources through partnerships with startups, academic institutions, and industry collaborators while managing intellectual property and relationship dynamics.

Curriculum Components

Innovation Framework Architecture

Comprehensive approaches to structuring innovation activities including stage-gate processes, agile development methods, and hybrid models adapted to organizational contexts.

Design Thinking Methodologies

Human-centered innovation approaches emphasizing empathy, ideation, prototyping, and iterative testing to develop solutions addressing genuine user needs.

Lean Startup Principles

Techniques for rapid experimentation, minimum viable product development, and validated learning to reduce innovation risk and accelerate time to market.

Intellectual Property Management

Strategic approaches to protecting innovations through patents, trademarks, and trade secrets while balancing IP protection with open innovation collaboration.

Corporate Venture Capital

Frameworks for establishing corporate venture funds, evaluating startup investments, and managing portfolio companies to access external innovation capabilities.

Innovation Metrics Development

Systems for measuring innovation performance through input metrics, process indicators, and output measures that demonstrate innovation contribution to organizational objectives.

Practical Tools and Methods

Ideation Techniques

Structured brainstorming methods
Innovation challenge frameworks
Crowdsourcing platforms

Evaluation Systems

Innovation scoring matrices
Risk-return assessment tools
Strategic fit analysis

Implementation Approaches

Rapid prototyping techniques
Experimentation frameworks
Scaling methodologies

Target Participants

This program serves innovation directors, R&D managers, chief innovation officers, and senior executives responsible for fostering innovation capabilities within their organizations. Participants typically include leaders tasked with developing innovation strategies, managing innovation portfolios, and building organizational cultures that support sustained innovation.

The curriculum particularly benefits executives at organizations seeking to establish systematic innovation processes, improve R&D productivity, or transform innovation capabilities. Those responsible for managing corporate venture initiatives, innovation labs, or strategic partnerships with external innovation sources will find the frameworks directly applicable.

Participants should have management responsibilities for innovation activities or strategic planning functions. While technical or scientific backgrounds can be beneficial, the program focuses on management frameworks and strategic approaches applicable across industries and functional areas.

Program Structure

Format Details

Duration

Six weeks with flexible module sequencing to accommodate organizational schedules

Schedule

Intensive two-day modules with practical workshop sessions and project work

Location

Tokyo training facility featuring innovation lab space for hands-on exercises

Learning Components

Interactive sessions with innovation practitioners and corporate entrepreneurs
Design thinking workshops applying methodologies to participant challenges
Innovation portfolio analysis exercises with real organizational data
Case studies examining innovation successes and failures across industries
Capstone project designing innovation governance system for participant's organization

Assessment and Recognition

Evaluation Methods

Participant development is assessed through evaluation mechanisms measuring innovation thinking, process design capabilities, and practical application of innovation management frameworks. The assessment approach emphasizes creative problem-solving and the ability to develop systematic innovation processes.

Innovation process design assignments with peer evaluation
Portfolio analysis presentations demonstrating strategic thinking
Final governance framework project with faculty assessment

Program Certification

Upon fulfilling all program requirements and demonstrating competency in innovation management frameworks, participants receive certification from ExecEdge. This credential validates capabilities for leading organizational innovation initiatives and developing systematic innovation processes.

Certificate Includes:

• Completion verification with program details
• Innovation competency framework coverage
• Assessment performance indicators
• Professional credential validation

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