New Courses

II. Executive Leadership Program: Capitalizing on Innovation - Restructuring Your Business Process and Systems
Residential one week intensive course sponsored by the Banff Centre for Management, Calgary, CANADA.
March 14 - 20, 1999

III. Knowledge Innovation: Operationalizing the Concepts
Virtual 3 week course sponsored by the Knowledge Ecology University
April 5 - 23, 1999

Residential one-week intensive course sponsored by the Banff Centre for Management, Calgary, CANADA.

Innovation and knowledge management is becoming one of the most important roles of senior leaders (after charting new directions and mobilizing people toward them). It goes well beyond simple quality, service or re-engineering. However, it does need to be integrated into your organizational processes to support the achievement of your strategic direction.

This Module (the second in a series of 3) gets the senior executive comfortable with:

• How to assess the knowledge and innovation capital in your organization,
• Measuring your innovation performance,
• Balancing economic/operational focus with human resources and technology leverage; and
• Planning and tracking the implementation of new processes to avoid organizational dysfunction and to maximize tangible/intangible value.

Course material will come from a variety of published articles and three books: Innovation Strategy for the Knowledge Economy, Creating the Knowledge-Based Business, and Collaborative Innovation and the Knowledge Economy.

Content will include sessions on "The New Knowledge-Value Proposition," "Storytelling - a Basis for Understanding Culture, Values and Attitudes," "A New Role for Senior Leaders in the Knowledge Age" as well as simulation exercises and case study examples of customer innovation. All participants will have an opportunity to assess the Knowledge innovation capability.of their organizations.

Emphasis is on experiential learning as a way to explore the concepts, understand key challenges and discover how best to apply the principles and metrics through viable implementation processes.

Virtual 3-week course sponsored by the Knowledge Ecology University

Dates: April 5 - 23, 1999
Fee: $650 per person
Register: http://www.knowledgeecology.com/keu/reg/index.shtml#form
URL: http://www.knowledgeecology.com/keu/cc/99feb.innovation.shtml

Knowledge management has become a well known term. But the real challenge facing most companies is that of faster innovation. Creating the system within which ideas are created and applied is more than management. It is a matter of strategy and leadership. That's where Knowledge Innovation comes to the fore.

This course is intended to sift the fad from the fundamental. Participants will gain an understanding of the evolution of the movement, the value of a management architecture, the use of systems dynamics and new ways to interface with other stakeholders, including customers.It is intended for individuals who have a sense of the rationale and are ready to put the concepts into practice with a systematic strategy to position their organizations for 21st century management. Participants will create a planning scheme to balance the short and long-term aspects of the organization...the operational with strategy formulation...the theory with the practice.

Where possible, this course will include expertise from various knowledge leaders in 56 countries who comprise the ENTOVATION Network. It will pull material from three publications in particular:

• Innovation Strategy for the Knowledge Economy
• Creating the Knowledge-Based Business
• Collaborative Innovation and the Knowledge Economy

The real value, however, will be the shared learning from participants as they explore ways to make systematic the vibrant notions of knowledge strategy.

The course is designed as a combination of lecture, group dialogue and research projects during which each participant will explore one facet of the knowledge economy - by issue/opportunity, function, industry, and/or region of the world - and report insights and results to virtual classmates.

In the process, participants will gain:

0. an understanding of the evolution, current practice and vision for the knowledge economy, including case examples and leaders in the movement.

1. an appreciation of the core concepts underlying enterprise management for the 21st Century.

2. a graphic representation of the knowledge innovation competence of their organization according to ten carefully researched dimensions.

3. experience in identifying knowledge leadership in their organizations and strategies for program implementation, including the evolution of shared language and precepts of a knowledge innovating culture.