TRACK Workshop: Talent Management for Breakthrough Innovation

Event Type
Workshop
Location
Online
Date/Time

Employee Innovation, Organizational Vision, Talent Management, Culture

While breakthroughs occasionally succeed due to championing behavior, it doesn’t happen often enough for established companies to rely on to secure their future. The fact is, a number of abilities are required for Breakthrough Innovations (BI) to make it from the lab to the market. The purpose of this course is for participants to understand the talent management practices necessary to support the company’s breakthrough innovation objectives, beyond invention. Role definition, challenges to innovation careers, and approaches to selection, development and retention will be covered.

The goal is to move from a champion model towards a perspective that recognizes New Business Creation as a discipline and expertise.

• Introduction and Expectations

• Necessary conditions for a sustainable Breakthrough Innovation Capability: Your company’s BI Maturity.

• Challenges Experienced by New Business Creation Personnel

• Introducing a Framework for Innovation roles

• Assess your organization’s Innovation Role Coverage

• Selecting, Developing and Retaining New Business Creation Talent.

• Understand the necessary conditions for an organization to sustain a breakthrough innovation capability, and assess your organization’s current status

• Gain exposure to a suite of innovation roles that will support an organizational capability for breakthrough innovation.

• Assess the extent to which the work to be done for breakthrough innovation success is covered within their organizations

• Consider ways to continually strengthen the Breakthrough Innovation talent bench.

Who should attend: R&D Leaders, New Business Creation/New Business Development, and Organizational Development professionals seeking to enhance their company’s ability to move Breakthrough inventions out of the lab and into the market.

Registration Fees:

IRI Members: $295
Non Members: $395 

Due to limited seating, we request that you cancel at least 48 hours before a scheduled class. This gives us the opportunity to fill the class. However, if you do not cancel prior to the 48 hours, you will lose the payment for the class.


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Gina O'Connor

Gina O'Connor

Professor O’Connor joined Babson in January 2019. She conducts research, develops curricula and facilitates learning for graduate students and executives based on her research findings on Breakthrough Innovation in large mature companies.     Before joining Babson Gina spent 29 years at the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she held the roles of Professor of Marketing and Innovation Management, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Director of the MBA program, Director of the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship and Director of the Radical Innovation Research Program. Prior to earning her PhD in Marketing and Corporate Strategy at NYU, she worked as a contract administrator for McDonnell Douglas Corporation and as a research analyst for Monsanto’s Department of Social Responsibility in St. Louis, Missouri.      Professor O’Connor has published papers in leading journals including Journal of Product Innovation Management, Organization Science, Journal of Marketing and Journal of Business Venturing.  Five of her papers have received best paper of the year awards in their respective journals.  Gina has co-authored three books on breakthrough innovation. The second of those: Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breakthrough Innovation, was named one of the top three business books of the year by Strategy + Business Magazine. In 2018 she was named a Crawford Fellow by the Product Development and Management Association, one of only six recipients of that award.     Gina’s professional objective is to help large established companies learn how to renew themselves through organic growth via step-out, game changing, breakthrough, strategic innovation, which introduces high levels of uncertainty into the innovation process and is typically stamped out in organizations.   She is a firm believer that, to be successful, companies must develop an innovation function, complete with its own people, processes, metrics and culture that operates within the company to translate emerging science, technology and business models into whole new platforms of growth that will fuel the company’s future health in spite of itself. She is an active speaker and consultant for a number of US and European companies, and is passionate about developing the next cadre of innovation leaders.     On the personal side, Gina’s permanent home is in Albany NY, where she lives with her husband.  Their three children are spread across the country doing their best to make the world a better place.  They are all members of the board of directors of a larger family owned operating foundation, Fostering Hope, which serves the needs of foster parents. 

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