ittoma innovation

Enabling Innovation From Within

Innovation Leadership Training

Unlocking New Possibilities

Our Customized Innovation Leadership Training is designed to help you:

  • Develop new ways of thinking and working to innovate your business
  • Generate fresh insights and ideas to tackle current and future business challenges
  • Access the collective intelligence and creativity of your teams to strengthen collaboration

Audience: Senior leaders, High Potentials

Key Features:

  • 1-3 day experience tailored to your unique culture and business needs
  • Executive-sponsored challenges
  • Activity-based pedagogy (doing-thinking-reflecting)
  • Access to valuable tools and templates
  • Focused on practicing and embedding new practices

Key Benefits:

  • Develop a test-and-learn mindset (increasing speed of decision making)
  • Learn the vital importance of problem focus and customer centricity
  • Create a portfolio of innovative ideas, both strategic and tactical
  • Build new relationships and trust by designing together
“We developed an engagement to support our leaders in shifting culture and embedding new practices. I was impressed with how accessible and possible Mark made organizational innovation. He has an incredible talent for generating energy and engagement at all levels and I would highly recommend him as an innovation partner.”

Ilda Dinis

SVP CX & Innovation, Northbridge Financial

Case Study: Fostering an Innovation Mindset in Global Leaders


Situation:

A Fortune500 company is conducting an annual global leadership offsite that brings together their leaders from around the world. The CEO has set forth ambitious goals and wants to win against intense competition and market forces. The team of 100 leaders have been working remotely, and 20% are new to the team.

Challenge:

How do we get senior leaders thinking and working in new ways to advance the business?

Solution: The Business Design Capstone

As a culmination of 3 days of self, team and business learning, participants worked over 2 days to address wicked business problems in new ways:

  • Teams of 5-10 (Director – VP level) worked on a live executive-sponsored challenges (e.g., new customers, silo busting, the future of work, driving new revenue)
  • Expert instruction through the principles and practices of Business Design: (Strategic Choicemaking, Stakeholder Empathy, Problem Finding and Reframing, Ideation & Co-Creation, Rapid Pretotyping, Iterative Feedback, Strategic Storytelling)
  • 30-60 minute sprints, supported by facilitation and workbooks
  • A final shareout with the corporate leaders

Results:

  • Corporate leaders gained 20 new insights and 20 new ideas. 18 ideas went into testing; 2 ideas were implemented into the strategic plan
  • Participants brought back new energy, new techniques and tools to foster innovation within their teams
  • New cross-brand and cross-region collaborations were formed to drive strategic goals (e.g., “Let’s work on that together”, “We want to be the first to test this.”)
  • The Business Design Capstone has been embedded into the annual strategic offsite for the past 8 years. It now runs 3 times / year.