Program content

During the starting conference we will design the final program with the participants. In the design we will match: individual learning needs (based on the intake), business needs (based on lectures by business leaders) and a selection out ouf a body of knowledge related to following topics:

Value networks as the new carriers for demand and innovation.

• Alliances and their complexity are here to stay: close relation between innovation and alliances.
• Value Networks seen as value sharing groups: branding, value based conduct, essentials.
• Boss-less organising: creating horizontal connections and mutual interfaces without hierarchy.
• Phases of the alliance process/phases of the innovation process: managing entangled phases.
• Reading, understanding and communicating trends and major value changes in our world.
• Visits to inspiring people, enterprises, organisations, alliances, exhibitions, trade marts.

• Information, formation, form as basic forms for modelling, most professionals have 2 blind spots.
• Information as organising power: analysts, scientists, policymakers.
• Formation as organising power: teambuilders, managers, entrepreneurs, coaches, mothers.
• Form as organising power: design management/ experience economy /anthropology.
• Improving sensibility for these three types of modelling and comprehension.
• Improving competences to induce transfer between different professionals.

Improving personal entrepreneurship in value networks.

• Cooperation/Competition: enhancing the pie before sharing, strategies and tactics of the game.
• Public and private combined in alliances: nature of the hybrid, connecting two moral codes.
• Minimal structure, maximal connection: working with collaborative teams; cool collectives.
• Nodal role of participants, taking eccentric positions and optimalise them.
• Vital and responsible professional: energetic/guts/sensitive and research/validation/decisive.
• Improving competences to guide innovative alliances in different stages.
• Creating value out of ideas.

• Organisational development and organisational behaviour.
• Juridical side of innovation in alliances: birth of legal entity, intellectual property.
• Manufacturability and engineering: the high tech industrial perspective.
• Interventions in organisations: primary concepts and skills, aspects of organisational culture.
• Innovation strategies, individual and in alliances.
• Financial and funding: working on/with business-cases, the approach of venture capitalists.

Here you find the program of 2008-2009