Webinar ‘Scaling corporate innovation’
Efficient innovation programs aim to create new business and ensure the company’s longevity. How do you develop and master your innovation capacity? How do you empower your employees to become innovation champions, boost your corporate innovation, improve governance and build an ambidextrous organization through a scalable innovation engine? In this webinar you’ll learn about these organizational challenges and discover a framework to implement corporate entrepreneurship.
Thursday 5 May 2022
From 15h till 16h30 CEST
4 sessions on scaling corporate innovation
Discover the program
15h00: The most common challenges to upgrade your innovation capacity
Stijn Smet, Managing Director Academy at Verhaert & Dany Robberecht, Director Strategic Innovation at Verhaert
How do you organize yourself when tackling the numerous challenges you’re opposed to today like digitization, sustainability, doing more with less, increasing the output of innovation, and many more? Innovation capacity needs the identification of both overlapping projects and the uniqueness of innovation projects in corporate innovation management. Which different models – like R&D, open innovation, venturing and intrapreneurship – should you incorporate into your innovation strategy?
15h25: Intrapreneurship as an innovation strategy
Matthew Nespeca, Global Head of Digital Business Transformation at Bayer
Bayer has a long-standing reputation for effective innovation valorization. Next to typical R&D activities, the company has leveraged big on intrapreneurship. Why did they choose to take the path of intrapreneurial programs? How did they manage the constant flow of ideas and scaling intentions? Learn from their most important learnings in managing the innovation portfolio and funnel.
15h45: Organizing a scalable engine for innovation
Stijn Smet, Managing Director Academy at Verhaert & Dany Robberecht, Director Strategic Innovation at Verhaert
How can organizations move beyond dedicated innovation solutions and systematic, time-bound methods of innovation? Corporate innovation can create an ongoing and scalable engine for innovation delivery while elevating the workforce. To take the leap from innovation strategy to innovation execution, you need the right mindset (innovation champions) and the right supportive program (intrapreneurship programs) to build organizational ambidexterity.
16h05: How to enable innovation champions
Fabien Donze, Innovation Manager at DEME Group
Any organization has a vast pool of high-potential innovators. How do you push innovation forward? How do you deal with the struggle to carve out appropriate time for innovation R&D? Learn from DEME’s method to enable central innovation and how it finds a good balance in different approaches and tools to manage their innovation portfolio.
Meet the speakers
Stijn Smet
Managing Director Academy at Verhaert
About Stijn
With over 12 years of experience in innovation consulting, Stijn is an expert in innovation management and strategy. He supports various R&D and C-suite leaders in designing their innovation program and underlying governance structures.
Dany Robberecht
Director Strategic Innovation at Verhaert
About Dany
Having worked at Verhaert for more than 25 years, Dany focuses on strategic innovation: value proposition design, value and business model engineering, strategic product, design & (open) innovation management in B2B, B2C and the public sector.
Matthew Nespeca
Global Head of
Digital Business Transformation at Bayer
Digital Business Transformation at Bayer
Fabien Donze
Innovation Manager at DEME Group
About Fabien
For about 5 years, Fabien has been contributing to sustainable growth and creating new innovative opportunities to expand DEME's global reach in a multidisciplinary way.
Let’s scale corporate innovation together
This webinar took place on May 5th, you can watch the recording and download the presentation through the button below.