Transcript A Perspective on Business Collaboratories

The Business Growth Innovation
Collaboratory (BGIC)
NC State Executive Education
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Business Growth Innovation Consortium Objectives
 Develop leaders in roles that identify and drive new growth opportunities
 Define and implement projects that have a real, positive impact
 Support partner organizations’ efforts to build a pipeline of leadership talent
 Create an on-going development program that is directly linked to the
organization’s values and expectations of leaders
 Provide tools that will be disseminated by participants and beneficial to
internal teams
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BGIC Consortium
A three phase process to define, design, and deliver new participant
capabilities and apply these new skills to a specific business challenge:
Optional:
Assess
Analytics
Seminar &
Workshop
Intercession
Support
Leadership
Seminar &
Solution
Workshop
Rollout
Support
120 days
• Optional: Pre-Program – Assessment tools link organizational need to program
design
• Phase 1 – 2.5-day Seminar on analytic skills and project development
• Intercession Support – Coaching of teams during analytics process
• Phase 2 – 2.5 -day Seminar on solution design, leadership and motivating change
• Phase 3 - 45-day Coaching and Project Management support
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Phase 1
Activities and Outcomes:
Day 1: Innovation Management –
• The program begins with a focus on the competencies needed to both ‘do the right
projects’ (Idea Management, Market Management, and Portfolio Management) as well as
those competencies needed to ‘do projects right’ (Platform Management and Project
Management)
Participants completing this portion of the program will be able to:
• Define innovation management. Learn how the five IM competencies: Idea, Market, Portfolio,
Platform and Project management link together into a cohesive, end-to- end system for producing
winning products and services
• Understand the tools at their disposal (i.e. organization, culture, process, tools and metrics) at
their disposal needed to embed an effective new model for innovation in their organizations.
• Assess their organization’s IM proficiency
• Build a strong case for change and measure results
Outcomes
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Improved Internal/External Analytic Skills
Engage in Project Process
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Phase 1
Activities and Outcomes:
Day 2: Customer Analysis
Equally important, the course will focus on the analysis of customer's wants/needs for
the purposes of outlining marketing campaigns, developing new products and refining
current offerings and for improving customer service efforts. Appropriate models of
consumer behavior and firm behavior (B2B) will be analyzed in a marketing context.
Participants completing this portion of the course will be able to lead and build:
• A customer analysis capability, including quantitative assessments of market size,
evaluations of market attractiveness and identification of primary customer
requirements by market segment.
• A competitive analysis capability for reliably gauging competitors’ capabilities as well
as where they may be headed next.
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Phase 1
Activities and Outcomes:
Day 3: Project Definition/Planning Workshop (1/2 day)
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Analytic Skills & Tools – Faculty will share with participants NCSU analytic tools
and processes to use in data collection and analysis
Project Identification – working with the Faculty and Project Manager, teams
will identify core projects to address
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Phase 2
Activities and Outcomes:
Day 1: Solution/Change Plan Workshop
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(1/2 day)
Solution selection – Faculty will take participants through a process of applying
data learned to opportunities to improve business models, product offerings,
organizational systems, etc. (Faculty selection based on common improvement
area)
Development of Change Plan – Faculty will teach participants how to develop an
effective change plan and (along with Project Manager) work with the teams
individually on the development of their plans
Outcomes
 New Influence/Change Leadership Skills
 Improved Change Plan
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Phase 2
Activities and Outcomes:
Day 1&2: Leading a High Performance Organization
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Emotional Intelligence in Cross-Cultural Orgs – self- and other-awareness,
cultural diversity, adaptive leadership, leading from the front.
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Driving a High Performance Team – matrix/virtual team management and
gaining alignment within teams. Keys to building a diverse, effective team.
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Creating an Innovation Culture – process for developing agile, adaptable
teams that drive innovation and growth. Teams embrace disruption,
question and challenge processes, and seek insights from others.
Outcomes
 New Influence/Change Leadership Skills
 Improved Change Plan
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Phase 2
Activities and Outcomes:
Day 3: Leading Change – session on change management processes,
overcoming barriers during execution, and managing key
relationships in leading change
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Influencing/Motivating Others – key skills in motivating the behaviors of
others including: managing up, managing knowledge workers, effective
negotiation/collaboration, decision-making, and communication.
Implementation support – Coaching support for plan execution; tools for
overcoming barriers to change and 2 check-in coaching calls with teams
Outcomes
 Solution/Approach to The Challenge
 Roadmap for Leading Change
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BGIC Consortium Timeline
Pre-Program – optional activity: for those interested individual corporate
meetings and assessments will take place throughout August ($5,000 cost)
Phase 1 – Mid-September Seminar
Project data collection/analysis – September
Phase 2 – Late October Seminar
Phase 3 - expert project support during sessions and 45-days of coaching
Project Readout - 1-day event in early December
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