Executive Certificate in leading Innovation, Change and Strategy

Design and execute strategy, lead change and generate new ideas to sustain your competitive advantage.

Overview

Leaders are constantly being challenged to find new, agile ways to generate ideas and execute strategy to future-proof the business and continue to connect with customers in an ever-changing marketplace.

Our strategy courses give you the practical skills and fresh perspectives to deliver strategies, navigate change and identify opportunities for growth to create value and sustain productivity. In many industries, innovation drives competitive success. Successful innovators redefine what the market expects, while those who do not are rendered obsolete. Innovation, however, is about more than great ideas. To be successful innovators, companies must understand the dynamics of their market, and identify and respond to the best opportunities with well-crafted, well-implemented innovation strategies. This course helps participants develop the mentality needed to become a disruptive leader and inspire an organizational culture that values and encourages new ideas. They will learn to rethink the habits that have made them successful in the past, and challenge the conventional wisdom and industry models that have defined their business. This course will help managers learn how to think strategically about innovation. Participants will be introduced to state-of-the-art concepts in innovation and best practices across a range of industries.

Who should attend?

• Chief Technology Officers, R&D directors CEOs, COOs, CIOs, marketing managers, HR Managers, product and service managers.
• Other senior executives, and entrepreneurs who are responsible for technology, R&D, and supply-chain strategy, especially where coordinated technology development issues are essential
• Senior executives in charge of innovation or new business development
• Teams charged with planning and implementing innovation or value chain strategy
• Division, business unit, functional, or geographic leadership team members

Benefits to Your Organization

Strategy elevates good leaders to exceptional performers. This program will help participant organizations:

• Develop their organizational capacity to define and implement effective business strategies
• Capture the competitive benefits of innovation and creativity in the workplace
• Capitalize immediately on the deepened insights and skills brought back to the workplace
• Support their teams through periods of organizational change
• Develop a long-term plan for the sustainability of the organization

Strategy Project

This program is designed to build applied skills in strategy, innovation and change management. To this purpose, you will engage in a Strategy Project that focuses on the future of your organization. The project will consist of:

• Opportunity statement: map out a significant strategic direction or opportunity for your company, and describe its strategic importance
• Analysis: develop a business case in the face of your chosen challenge or opportunity
• Recommendations: draft a proposal on how to tackle your plan, and outline the expected strategic outcomes

During the week you will receive one-on-one time with a faculty advisor to support your project. At the end of the program you will present your proposal to the group, and get feedback for moving it forward in your organization.

Modules

Building Game-Changing Organizations: Aligning Purpose, Performance, and People

• Understand what it takes to build game-changing organizations.
• Acquire resources and tools to articulate your company’s powerful story—what we call “collective ambition”
• Examine how to integrate the “soft side” of leading (purpose, vision, culture) with the “hard side” (strategy, operational priorities, brand) into a powerful formula.
• Understand the importance of building an authentic and energizing culture
• Learn what it takes to make your company a world-class talent factory

Building, Leading, and Sustaining the Innovative Organization

Participants will learn about the options available for driving strategic innovation in the organization, including how to:

• Combine the right mix of capabilities and critical functions to generate and commercialize innovative ideas more efficiently
• Develop the processes and required to support these activities
• Build cultures that encourage innovative behaviors
• Overcome the six misconceptions that stymie innovation in order to help the organization identify process information, identify opportunities, and deal with risk and uncertainty in a more timely manner

Driving Strategic Innovation: Achieving High Performance Throughout the Value Chain

Participants will leave this program armed with the knowledge of how to influence corporate culture, alter the way their organization responds to the challenge of innovation, and strengthen relationships with partners along the value chain. This intensive learning experience will deliver long-term value, helping business leaders to:

• Meet technology challenges, from R&D to manufacturing, project management to engineering
• Link technology decisions with business strategy
• Integrate product development, process developments, and value-chain strategy
• Develop organization and supply-chain strategies to position the company for future growth
• Leverage learning and innovation collaboration with customers, lead users, and suppliers, maximizing the value of research
• Understand how technologies and markets evolve and how they are linked
• Outperform the competition by generating breakthrough ideas
• Cope with shorter product life cycles, while delivering greater customer satisfaction
• Optimize sourcing and “make-buy” decisions
• Integrate supply-chain design with concurrent engineering
• Engage talent within the organization and across the value chain

Disruptive Leadership: Fostering a Culture of Game-Changing Innovation

• Ideas as Recipes for Generating New Value and Wealth
• Introduction to understanding the value of ideas and innovation
• Applying disruptive leadership to innovation challenges
• Provoking Organizational Processes and Behaviors with Disruptive Hypotheses
• Identifying the assumptions and conventions that influence the way producers and consumers think about your business
• How to break through the boundaries of your industry situation
• Generating deliberately unreasonable "what if" questions

Building and Leading Disruptive Teams

• From command and control to connect and collaborate
• The importance of innovation leadership
• Building and leading disruptive teams

Pitching Disruptive Ideas to the Organization and External Stakeholders

• Establishing the inadequacy of the status quo
• Delivering unexpected insights and opportunities to foster curiosity
• Building belief in the value an idea delivers

Programme Introduction 

Organizations that succeed and excel at what they do, do so by employing and retaining individuals with the specific capacity to excel at innovation, leadership and execution. They engage Individuals who have mastered the executive function and always display highest level of professionalism and exceptional leadership.

The fundamental principles of the Executive Intelligence experience lay the foundation for embedding new mind-sets and behaviours that allow for influence, credibility, and personal endorsement to manifest at the highest levels.
During this process you will learn very specific methods that will allow you to recognize how to disrupt your default patterns…the patterns that derail interactions and inhibit the cultivation of enduring partnerships. The result for the disciplined leader will be a quantum leap in your intentional Executive Intelligence.

Through Executive Intelligence training, acquire and take effective control of the unique skills of professional execution and replicative operational performance.
The bottom line is that Executive Intelligence is the “stuff” that determines if a leader will thrive … or fail – and by extension, whether a work group, team, department, division, or company will thrive or fail.

Executive Intelligence

• Identify and develop executive practices that lead to intelligence
• Foster productive interactions that allow you to move things toward your desired outcomes
• Strengthen your results orientation through critical thinking skills
• Grasp the centre of emotional fortitude that generates and sustains real partnerships
• Uncover your unconscious self-preservation patterns that implode clarity of thought and action
• Learn solid mental management disciplines for manoeuvring through tensions, annoyances and upsets
• Learn how to have robust conversations that move self and others through workplace dilemmas
• Executive Excellence – develop excellence through diversity of skill, first-class experience, and foresight that extends across industries and corporate cultures.
• Develop critical thinking and judgement skills required of intelligent executives
• Deliver critical insights, identify new business models, improve client engagement and drive innovation

Systems thinking

• Make the connections between seemingly separate events, factors, and processes
• Model and test business assumptions, problems, and decisions
• Understand and simplify complex business problems
• Diagram the cause-and-effect relationship of problems and decisions
• Proactively resolve developing issues with an in-depth understanding and strategic plan

Executive Analysis

• Learn the dynamics, processes, and challenges to designing an organization that achieves results
• Actively identify problems and learn to develop design solutions to remedy them
• Provide a prescribed process and discipline to redesign your organization
• Evaluate your analysis to ensure that your design and recommendations for transformation follow a systematic approach that aligns with your organization’s mission and values

Strategic thinking

• Discovery of their individual capabilities
• The key components of strategic thinking
• How to sort through the noise to spot significant pieces of information and potential gaps
• Practical approaches to identifying issues and opportunities
• Tools to create an environment that fosters a strategic team

Intelligent decision making

• Identify critical factors in making solid decisions
• Tap into creative and experimental approaches to enhance the quality of decisions
• Assess decision-making preferences, and identify traps and biases
• Apply tools to analyze, conceptualize, and gain hands-on insight into effective decision making

Duration- 5 days

Peakford institute runs 5 day masterclass on key topics for specific industries. These masterclasses are designed to develop and cement critical skills in a profession by incorporating currents trends and changes in the environment. The Peakford Masterclasses are designed with the premise that to remain effective professional need to keep abreast changes in their environment and profession. Most of our week long masterclasses lead to the accumulation of CPD points recognised by many professional bodies.

Engineering Reliability and maintenance Masterclass

Audience

General engineers, Senior Technicians, Maintenance and Operations Supervisors or Foreman, Plant or Equipment Operators and Maintainers Engineers, production managers, maintenance technician Design and/or process managers and engineers, manufacturing, quality assurance, reliability research, development, and safety engineering personnel, Quality or reliability managers/engineers, production/design engineers, and warranty analysts with engineering functions will benefit from attending this Masterclass.

Module Selection.

Reliability Engineering

Designed for practicing engineers, this module focuses on teaching you to increase product reliability. The module covers such topics as model product failure times, analyzing data to determine reliability characteristics, and other general data driven decisions to insure a reliable product. You will learn how to analyze life data to determine reliability characteristics and to achieve reliability improvement of a product. You will also learn about reliability testing for determining and demonstrating a reliability value, and design procedures that are necessary to ensure a reliable product.

Measurement Uncertainty

The focus of making quality measurements is to reduce uncertainty where possible, and to increase confidence in the measurements. It doesn't matter where the measurements are made: knowing about measurement uncertainty is important in expressing measurement results in design, manufacturing, or quality in the aerospace, medical device, automotive industry or a calibration laboratory

Failure Modes And Effects Analysis – Design

Gain a working knowledge of the FMEA tool as it is applied to the design of products.

Metrology Applications For Engineers And Scientists

This module focuses on the science of measurement. When completed, you’ll have a proper understanding of metrology concepts, basic statistics, reliability statistics and measurement uncertainty. This module is designed to familiarize Engineers and Scientists with Metrology, the science of measurement. A quantitative analysis of design based on sound metrology principles will help engineers and scientists to design better products and services.
In order to evaluate multiple solutions to the design, physical measurements are made and the data analyzed. Predictions need to be made on how well the design will perform to its specifications before full scale production begins. Tests are performed using prototype models, computer simulation, designed experiments, destructive and non-destructive tests, scale models and stress tests among the many other methods of evaluation.
In this module, you will learn to apply end-to-end metrology across all disciplines involved in producing a product. The role of metrology in the various phases of a products lifecycle will be covered.

Reliability Maintenance

Reliability-centered maintenance is a process to ensure that systems continue to do what their user require in their present operating context. It is generally used to achieve improvements in fields such as the establishment of safe minimum levels of maintenance.

Root Cause Analysis

If you’re responsible for problem-solving and improving processes, this three-day class will show you how to stop recurring failures. You’ll learn and practice a method to approach daily problem-solving with proven root cause tools. Unsure which tools to use when? Our RCA experts will help you understand the advantages and disadvantages of different tools and how to use the right one at the right time.

Reliability Engineering Excellence

The Reliability Engineer (RE) is the business advisor to facility maintenance and production. This strategic position is responsible for evaluating and predicting performance to achieve the greatest asset utilization at the lowest total cost of ownership. The RE sees all aspects of proper plant function, puts equipment first, and makes decisions based on how machines function and their impact on production. Just as a business advisor must balance policy and diplomacy, the RE must be dedicated to preserving asset reliability and managing risk. 

Reliability Excellence Fundamentals

This is a dynamic, high-impact, interactive workshop where participants will experience the fundamental concepts of Reliability Excellence in order to drive performance improvement efforts within your organization.The class is a learning process that begins with a clear understanding of the learning objectives, behavior change expectations and desired performance improvement results. Then you will learn the tools and processes required to develop, implement and sustain word-class maintenance and reliability programs.

Reliability and Operations Excellence

Ever wonder how the world’s best Operations achieve their performance levels? Participate in this two-day workshop as we uncover the models for achieving Operations Excellence and how the best plants are able to maximize output and minimize costs using Reliability principles. During this class we will demonstrate how the relentless pursuit of defect elimination, asset productivity and workforce engagement will help you deliver dramatic competitive advantage - with increased plant capability, lower unit costs, and superior safety, environmental and quality performance.

Predictive Maintenance Strategy

Predictive maintenance is not a tool, technique or certification but a philosophy that uses the equipment’s operating condition to make data-driven decisions and improve quality, productivity and profitability. Unlike industry modules that focus on applying specific technologies like vibration monitoring or oil analysis, this module focuses on establishing, managing and sustaining results from a comprehensive PdM program. By the end of the module, you will have outlined what a successful PdM program can look like at your organization.

Planning for Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages

Master the basics of shutdowns, turnarounds and outages after attending this class. Reduce unnecessary costs by properly planning, executing and closing your shutdown. Participate in exercises such as analyzing your previous shutdowns, creating a timeline, planning lead time, and estimating costs, all designed to help you save time and money on your next shutdown. Optimize the process by discovering new tools and technologies that will create a backbone for effective plant maintenance and reliability. Walk out with a master checklist detailing the tasks for your next project.

It’s all too easy for organizations to get comfortable in the beliefs that spur their strategies and actions—but what if things have changed and your leadership’s perceptions no longer match the new reality? The world constantly changes and there’s only one way to stay on top: integrate strategic innovation into your culture.

Innovation isn’t about just coming up with new ideas and implementing them—it’s about being open. Open to new ways of thought. New technologies. New developments. Open to being a bit out of your comfort zone. And to truly innovate, you need to know how to motivate and teach others to innovate, while also measuring results—and not just on an individual basis, you need to be able to affect change on an organizational level.
Teach your leaders the ins and outs of integrating innovation into your culture, starting with yourself, then the teams, and finally the organization in this two-day, active-participant innovation workshop led by select Linkage faculty.

What You Get

In short, this innovation workshop will arm your leaders with the necessary skills to keep your organization ahead of the competition

We ask that all participants come to the workshop having prepared two or three real-life challenges that your organization or team is facing; participants will then target their in-session learning toward turning these challenges into innovative opportunities.

During the session, leaders will learn to

• Adopt a framework to accelerate innovation
• Develop an organization capable of innovation
• Ask the questions needed to better define challenges
• Increase an idea’s potential while simultaneously decreasing risk
• Motivate others toward innovation and measure their success