What is the strategic impetus for innovation?- Why does it matter? Why now? What do you want to achieve?

Seeing the challenges early and clearly- ability and time to change, alignment of innovation to strategy

Nurturing innovation- environment, the charter, employee development

Innovation for a purpose, putting it in the right context- for a clear market and customer focus at greater profit

Developing the capacity to innovate- structures, models, key areas, critical milestones

Policies reflect the culture and determine the ability to achieve an “innovating culture”- what’s on the table?

Building the case to innovate- stakeholders - the interested parties- the organisation- getting adoption

Innovation and organization policy and structures- sources, funding, powerful messages, recognition, resoures

Leveraging logic and critical thinking- mapping it out, agreeing, surfacing doubts.

Exploring the ‘out of the box’ ideas

Measuring & Evaluating Innovation- framework, process, criteria, returns, attention given

Capturing & Exploiting the stories, ensuring this happens

Disappointments along the way- elusive and fuzzy, encouraging, resolving, accepting failure, learning from these, moving on

Bridging gaps between old and new styles and getting corporate understanding and patience- change takes time