Organizations that have developed their competitive stamina in a volatile, uncertain and increasingly complex, error-prone world have strengthened their capacity as risk-takers and innovators. While it’s rare to find a leader who doesn’t want his or her organization to be more innovative, very few know how to achieve this vision. Steve Jobs, deemed the icon of intelligent failure, once asserted that “innovation is what distinguishes leaders from followers.” This is because they know how to harness, focus and inspire their workers to willingly contribute their ideas and, in so doing, reshape the old-paradigm practices of the enterprise into groundbreaking new deliverables.
A Vancouver-based CFO once lamented in frustration: “Accountants are neither entrepreneurial nor innovative, because we’ve been trained and conditioned to follow a rule book.” The good news is that innovation does follow a set of fundamental rules and essential principles. It’s more about idea selection than idea generation. The riskiest move in business today is to play it safe. Building an adaptive culture of learning and innovation demands discipline, transparency and resilience. With over five decades of researching and teaching the intricacies of ensuring sustainable innovation capacity, Dr. Jim Murray once led a week-long residential training program on the subject at Princeton over the course of several years for one of America’s largest multi-national corporations.
Registrants will receive a 40-page Pre-course Workbook of relevant tasks, diagnostics and supplemental readings to enable them to frame their learning objectives and “drill down” on topics of particular interest.
Content
- Walking the talk: Current status in Canada
- The bigger picture and the bigger problems
- The relationship between risk and innovation
- Internal impediments to building/nurturing it
- Myths & realities: Judgement & problem solving
- Fostering innovation: First principles and rules
- Building the culture: Rooting out the pathogens
- Conducting an innovation vitality/agility audit
- Practical, incremental and radical innovation
- Managing the paradoxes: Strategies and tactics
- Tools: Future forecasting and scenario building
- The innovation process: From origin to execution
- Evaluating ideas and writing winning proposals
- The key questions that investors want answered
- How to sell any idea: Mastering the elevator pitch
- Execution: The hard questions and intelligent failure
- The bottom line: Build it, manage it and sustain it
While no pre-requisite is required to attend this seminar, it contains 0.5 hour of supplementary reading that must be completed. Note that the live instructional portion is 4 hours. Participants who complete this supplementary work may report the full 4.5 hours as verifiable CPD. If a participant does not complete this, they must reduce the reported CPD hours accordingly.
Course Leader: Jim Murray
What to Expect
- Two emails will be sent from CPA Manitoba following your registration: one to confirm your order and one including information on how to access the course through your Learning Hub.
- Once sent, these emails can also be found in the Communication tab of your CPA Manitoba Member Portal.
- Course materials, links and credentials can be found in your Learning Hub no less than two business days prior to the seminar.
- This is a Live Virtual seminar where class size has been limited to allow for an interactive learning environment.
- This seminar will not be recorded.
- Live webinars have varying levels of expected interaction, with many requiring webcam and microphone capabilities.
If you have concerns about the interaction required for this course or any other questions about this course, please email [email protected].
CPA Manitoba PD Terms and Conditions: https://cpamb.ca/pd/pd/Terms-and-Conditions.aspx
For questions regarding this course, including registration and access, email [email protected].