Professor Victor Newman is an expert in innovation leadership and the process of transforming policy into practice. The document summarizes his background and experience working with businesses. It then outlines an agenda for workshops focused on moving education, government, and infrastructure policies into real-world implementation. The workshops will use frameworks like innovation, open source leadership, and social capital to address challenges in moving these policies from ideas to active programs and solutions.
2. Victor Newman He is working on : “The Innovator’s Got To Do It: The Art of Innovation Leadership”, based on his Innovation Leadership work with CEOs and innovation leaders. Favourite TV shows : The Wire, Big Bang Theory Blog : http://the-knowledgeworks.blogspot.com/ Email: [email_address] Innovation practitioner and Visiting Professor in Knowledge and Innovation Management: University of Greenwich and Open University Business School. Recent executive roles include CIO Milamber Group, Director: Innovoflow, Head of Innovation Strategy & Economics at The Technology Strategy Board, and Chief Learning Officer to Pfizer. Visiting Fellow to Cranfield University on the subject of Strategic Knowledge Management and Innovation. He works with several business schools. Contributed to the Harvard Business Review, included in Harvard’s “Fifty Lessons” interviews with 200 of the world’s most respected business leaders, and featured in The Wall Street Journal. On the Advisory Boards of several organisations. Author of “Made to Measure Problem Solving” and his “Knowledge Activist’s Handbook – Adventures in the Knowledge Trenches” from Capstone/ Wiley & Sons has been cited as the “best (secret) management book within the last ten years”.
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9. Innovation is about doing new things and also about learning to do old things in new ways, to create new value Victor’s definition
10. What Kind of Value? From niche to commodity Value Level Impact New Market Value INDIVIDUAL Establishes new market values (changes the current hierarchy of value: makes similar products obsolete or of lower value in comparison). Plans my boredom for me; renews; Individuates me: augments & enriches my identity by association; moves me onto new forms of consumption, understands or dictates my timing for new value replacement Personalised ELITE Entirely meets my existing needs, and involves me in the process of value definition Affinity COMMUNITY Meets my market choice preferences, promotes identify augmentation through differentiated features and aesthetics/ associations Marginal/ Economic ANYONE Convenience, utility commodity: basic, little personalisation High Intimacy Low Intimacy
11. Innovation processes & techniques are useful, but innovative people are essential . Are you working with the right kind of people? Do you know who is missing?
17. Innovation Leadership Behaviour Matrix Discipline (consciously working within a discipline) Contextual Awareness (Interpretive Behaviour within an evolving fluctuating market) From Victor Newman’s: “The Innovator’s Got To Do It: Understanding the Art of Innovation Leadership” Stabilisor Navigator Creator Translator
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25. 3 x Challenges for Education/ Government/ Infrastructure Challenge A Challenge B Challenge C
26. 3 Challenges: A/ B/C Unpacking what is needed to move from Policy into Practice (P2P) - Consider Challenge definition, decide which stage(s) of P2P are relevant, pick the stage(s)you need to want to work on, break into groups for each stage. - What kind of innovation behaviour is needed at each stage of your challenge? Initiating Designing Operating Implementing Stabilisor Navigator Creator Translator Stabilisor Navigator Creator Translator Stabilisor Navigator Creator Translator Stabilisor Navigator Creator Translator