Leaders of Next Intensive
Master innovation leadership
Lay the foundation for your system of innovation.
Solve Next will equip your executives and managers with the capability to establish, lead, manage, and operate a Next System.
Your people will gain the knowledge and skills, and establish the governing bodies, operating principles, and strategic goals required to inoculate your organization from fragmented, undisciplined, unproductive innovation that fails to make meaningful contributions to your strategic goals.
Your executives and managers will be equipped to complete your Innovation Playbook, a living document used by executives and managers to govern innovation investments and execute innovation strategies.
Contact Monica Baron (monica@solvenext.com) to schedule a Private Leaders of Next Intensive.
Innovation Leadership
and Decision Making
Leading next is different from leading now. In this sprint, we introduce the knowledge, language, frameworks, tools, skills, and system needed to drive innovation productivity and reduce capital leakage through effective portfolio management.
This sprint will enable innovation leaders to avoid making costly gut instinct-, political-, emotional-, and inconsistent decisions. Your team will be introduced to rational criteria, frameworks, and tools to guide decision-making, realize strategic innovation goals, respond to change, and achieve maximum impact.
Sessions include:
Innovation Portfolio Management Frameworks and Tools
Innovation Development Cycle and Project Mapping
Innovation System Decision Making
Application, Review, and Coaching
Innovation Playbook elements developed:
Innovation Vision
Innovation Goals, Strategies, and Investment Mix
Innovation Portfolios
Innovation Development Cycle
Innovation Governance
and Funding
The certainty of now offers better short-term returns and lower risk, which makes change difficult. To ensure your organization’s longevity, you need to develop the structures, rules, and expectations that guide teams as they build what’s next.
In this sprint, your team will learn to effectively manage the friction between now and next with Next Boards, Next Advocates, Next Rules and Operating Principles for intrapreneurs, funding models, option value, and more.
Sessions include:
Innovation Governance and Advocacy
Opportunity Portfolio Rebalancing and Resourcing
Innovation Governance and Resourcing Review
Innovation Playbook elements developed:
Innovation Development Decision-making Criteria
Next Boards and Next Advocates identified
Next Rules and Operating Principles for governing innovation
Funding Models and Option Value Priorities
Rebalanced Innovation Portfolios aligned with goals and strategies (to improve innovation productivity and capital leakage)
Funding and resourcing recommendations
Innovation Readiness Assessment
The conditions for intrapreneurial success are often lacking or misunderstood, leading to missed goals, disillusionment with innovation, and reinforcement of the status quo. The team will take the Innovation Readiness Assessment to establish a baseline and to prioritize opportunities for innovation productivity improvement.
Sessions include:
Introduction to Innovation Readiness
Complete Assessment
Assessment and Booster Review
Sprint outcomes:
Understanding of the Next Cycle (the innovation development cycle against which readiness is determined)
Baseline metrics against which innovation system improvements can be measured
Recommended boosters that focus on areas for significant improvement