The Future Is Now: Unlocking Your Innovation Potential in 2025

Join a hands-on masterclass designed to equip you with essential knowledge and skills in systematic innovation management, based on the globally recognised ISO 56001 Innovation Management System requirements standard.

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Description

Boost your innovation performance with this unique masterclass for leaders, managers, and practitioners in all kinds of organisations. You will learn the fundamentals of systematic innovation management and how to assess and implement an innovation management system based on ISO 56001.

The certifiable international standard ISO 56001:2024 Innovation management system – Requirements, was published in September 2024.

Innovation at the top of the agenda

The future belongs to the organisations that can innovate and renew themselves! They delight users, power up digital technology, embrace sustainability, accelerate growth, and create social impact. To unlock their full innovation potential, private and public organisations can now manage innovation activities systematically with support from the ISO 56000 family of international standards.

Masterclass outline

PART I (Magnus Karlsson, Amplify, Sweden)

  1. The fundamentals of systematic innovation management, including introducing ISO 56001.
  2. Managing uncertainty, developing deep insights, and designing innovation processes.
  3. Crafting an innovation strategy, leadership styles, and fostering an innovation culture.
  4. Assessing and implementing an innovation management system.

PART II (Henra Mayer, Innocentrix)

  1. Unlocking Innovation Potential: What does innovation management look like in Africa? Highlights from the African Innovation League Report (including access to the African Innovation League Questionnaire)
  2. Interactive session: What are the key challenges facing innovation management in local organisations today, and what strategies can be applied to overcome them?

Masterclass time and place

Time: 09:00-18:00, March,20th, 2025.

Place: Protea Hotel Cape Town Waterfront Breakwater Lodge, Portswood Rd, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town.

Learning objectives

The objective of the masterclass is to introduce systematic innovation management based on ISO 56001. After completing the program, participants will have gained an understanding of the principles and content of ISO 56001 and its practical implications for assessing and implementing an innovation management system in their organisation.

Target audience

The masterclass is essential for anyone leading, managing, or contributing to innovation or R&D efforts in any organisation. It is also relevant for innovation management professionals, consultants, and coaches interested in ISO 56001.

Certificate and credits

After completing the masterclass, participants will receive an Amplify certificate of completion and Continuous Professional Development (CPD) credits (pending approval).

Why you should attend

Masterclass participants will receive access to the following documents and tools:

  1. Introducing ISO 56001 Guide (Entry level guide)
  2. Innovation Management Checklist – Review your organisation’s capabilities based on ISO 56001
  3. Innovation Leadership styles template, used during the Masterclass and available as a handout afterwards
  4. Exclusive Systematic Innovation Management Book preview (Book only published after the Masterclass)
  5. African Innovation League Questionnaire template and guidance

Masterclass experts

Dr. Magnus Karlsson

Innovation management expert, Partner at Amplify, Adjunct Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and active contributor to the standardisation of the ISO 56000 family of innovation management standards as the chairman of the Swedish committee since 2008. Amplify is a leading consulting and training company based in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 20 years of international experience in the practice, research, and standardization of innovation management. Amplify has trained thousands of leaders and innovation management professionals.

Henra Mayer

CEO of Innocentrix, Innovation Faculty at Da Vinci Business School with over 20 years of experience in strategic innovation management, including change management, culture creation, and strategic business modelling. As a South African representative on the ISO 56000 global team for Innovation Management Standards, she brings international expertise to local markets, helping organisations implement high-ROI innovation programs.

After the masterclass

  • Learn more with the Amplify e-learning program Systematic Innovation Management to prepare yourself for personal certification.
  • Join our upcoming local and international action learning webinars to start assessing and implementing an innovation management system in your organisation.
  • Consider customised training and gaming sessions for leaders and practitioners in your organisation.
  • Consider access to a special offer for an Innovation Management Gap Analyses at your organisation.
  • Consider access to a special offer to join the FutureLeader Trend Watch Event and community.

 

Join us for this one-day exclusive masterclass!

Program fee

Price: R 6 500

Contact details for more information: henra@innocentrix.co.za, info @innocentrix.co.za.