Dr. Nancy Tennant is one of the world’s leading educators and practitioners in transforming businesses to achieve innovation from everyone and everywhere. Businessweek named Dr. Tennant one of the 25 Innovation Champions in the world. She is an instructor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern and The University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business. She is the co-founder of the Certified Innovation Mentor program at the University of Notre Dame and the I-Mentor Boot Camp. She is the Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus for Whirlpool Corporation where she reported to the Chairman and CEO for over 17 years; transforming the Fortune 200 company into an innovation powerhouse resulting in acclaim from publications such as Fast Company and Fortune and creating billions in new revenue from embedded innovation. She is the (co)author of numerous articles including 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company by Hamel & Tennant (2015 HBR.org) She is the co-author of three best-selling books including: Unleashing Innovation: How Whirlpool Transformed an Industry (2008).
Scaling innovation initiatives require expert resources that are distributed throughout your organization to help teams innovate. I-mentors are the ”master black belts” of innovation. We will discuss the how to train and embed I-mentors throughout your organization to help drive innovation results in every location and at every level.
- Innovation Facilitators: Description of role and how to train
- Front-Line Reconnaissance: Networked throughout the organization
- Boundary-Spanners: Projects inside and outside of the company
- Innovation Culture and Organizing for Growth
- Lab
Winston Churchill had severe bouts of personal stagnation that he called the “black dog”. Innovation practitioners experience a similar personal challenge when trying to enable the change associated with innovation. In this lab, we will:
- Explore the role and personal cost of the change agent charged with embedding innovation
- Focus on how to thrive when you have the accountably to advance innovation, even when everyone seems to be pushing back
- Learn how to tame the black dog
- Innovation Culture and Organizing for Growth
- Lab
In this “how to” lab for beginners and seasoned practitioners, we will declutter the check-list for the innovation foundation and how to Generate, Embed and Lead innovation in legacy companies. Innovation De-Constructed addresses the essential four platforms to create lasting innovation in your company.
- Basis: The strategic mandate to ensure long-term success for innovation
- Generate: The Unifying Innovation Model for creating a cadence of innovations from everyone and everywhere
- Embed: Uncovers invisible parts of the organization that can kill innovation and offers strategies to re-engineer them to be innovation-friendly
- Lead: New leadership models required in the innovation economy.
- Innovation Culture and Organizing for Growth
- Lab