Business Innovation

and Growth [BIG]

A Mini MBA

From the provider of the Telecoms Mini MBA, this

new Mini MBA is designed for mid-senior level
managers in all industries looking to drive
innovation to create real value within an organisation.
Attend to learn how to apply global cross-industry
best practice to your organisation.

Maximising Innovation and Value Creation

Why complete Business Innovation
and Growth [BIG]
FOCUSED SQUARELY ON developing strategies, procedures
and environments that maximise innovation, creativity and growth
in order to build value and develop competitive advantage
COVERS EVERY ASPECT of the Innovation and Value Creation
process, as well as highlighting the keys (and blocks) to success

Over five intensive days, you

will study modules covering:
Maximising success
in your organisation

Aligning innovation
to business environment and strategy

FACILITATES EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE improvement within

the organisation by developing a clear vision of best business
practice including results orientation, organisational alignment,
and culture-building

Maximising value with innovation

PROVIDES PRACTICAL TOOLS to maximise return on investment

and to ensure concepts can be immediately implemented in the
workplace

realising and enabling the potential of people

HIGHLY FOCUSED, INTERACTIVE and in-depth training from the

experts: over 7000 attendees on our Executive Training Programmes

a nancial analysis

Building innovative teams

Implementing best practice
innovative systems
to underpin successful innovative practices

BIG

BUSINESS INNOVATION GAME [BIG]

AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE PROGRAMME, participants are exposed to the Business Innovation
Game [BIG], which is used to spark, develop and evaluate their ideas in a pressured business
environment overcoming blocks to value creation and using best practice techniques to maximise
success. BIG is customisable to any Industry and business environment.

Course Summary
This ve-day programme rapidly builds the competencies that are critical to
successful innovation within the modern business environment.
Outcomes and Competency Development

As well as providing an excellent foundation in modern

business practices, the programme is focused squarely on
developing strategies, procedures and environments that
maximise innovation and creativity in order to build value and
develop competitive advantage.

Participants will develop or be able to:

CONTRIBUTE FULLY TO DEVELOPING a work environment that
embraces forward-looking business practices, encourages innovative
thinking, and provides a framework that can translate ideas into
business success.

The programme is aimed at mid to senior managers from all industries

that want to go beyond traditional business practices in order to
maximise success for their organisation and for themselves. For those
with open minds, it is an ideal opportunity to share ideas, learn best
practice, and to build condence; for all, it is a chance to expand
critical thinking, gain condence and build the competencies needed
to succeed.

APPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF INNOVATION and innovative thinking

more effectively and consistently within their own business
environment focusing their efforts on value creation and developing
sustainable competitive advantage.
BUILD TEAMS THAT ARE MORE commercially-aware and able
to contribute in a proactive manner to the growth and success
of the organisation.

Participants will develop a comprehensive, cross functional action plan

(specic and unique to each individual) that can be used to create and
ingrain successful thinking, attitudes, and healthy growth mentality
amongst their own team whilst building a compelling and rewarding
environment with improved systems and streamlined processes; better
planning; greater organisational alignment; and reduced frustration.

IDENTIFY THE KEY STRATEGIC ISSUES affecting their own market

and be much better positioned to focus and develop key enablers
(as well as mitigate major blocks to success) for growth and evaluate
initiatives more rigorously and with greater assurance including the
risk, nancial, competitive and overall value implications.

The interactive nature of the programme, with practical workplace

application, is designed to generate immediate and positive
performance improvement and value creation whether it is in product
development; increased sales / revenues; cost optimisation; or
productivity. The tools ensure concepts can be immediately applied in
the workplace with quantiable performance metrics and a
measurable return on investment.

SKILLS AND DRIVE TO TURN IDEAS into business success

with more condence and with a much greater hit-rate than the
competition and the ability to create, prioritise and clearly
communicate innovative ideas and concepts in a way that will have
an immediate and positive effect on the business built on a
systematic approach that is easily understood and consistently
implemented by their teams.

The programme is delivered by a highly experienced team that have

delivered many, many, Mini MBA programmes to blue chip technology
companies world-wide over the last 14 years and therefore know
what it takes for an organisation to be truly successful in the modern
business world.

DEVELOP A MUCH CLEARER VIEW in terms of the required

priorities; accountabilities; allocation of resources; and above all,
developing a positive environment that will enable all team members
to work to a clear action plan that delivers consistent performance
improvement and value creation.

Programme Summary
SESSION ONE

DAY 1

DAY 2

DAY 3

DAY 4

DAY 5

Welcome and Introduction

Innovation, Business
Environment and Strategy

Building Innovative Teams

Implementing Best Practice

Innovative Systems

Maximising Success

Maximising Success

Innovation, Business
Environment and Strategy

Building Innovative Teams

Implementing Best Practice

Innovative Systems

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Maximising Success

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BIG Presentations

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Value and Innovation

Financial Analysis

Building Innovative Teams

Implementing Best Practice

Innovative Systems

Feedback and Awards

Value and Innovation

Financial Analysis

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SESSION TWO
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SESSION THREE
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SESSION FOUR
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SESSION FIVE

The programme is highly

interactive and practical in
nature, and is designed so that
participants can maximise
their competency development
in terms of knowledge, skills and
condence by applying their ideas
immediately within a
comprehensive business
simulation. Case studies are used
throughout to illustrate and
evaluate best practice.

Booking line +44 (0)20 7017 4144

The programme is split into five key competency

areas to ensure focus and clarity
Maximising success
Innovation, business environment and strategy
Value and innovation financial analysis
Realising the potential of people
Getting things done

Email [email protected]

Post Course and Implementation Tools

Over and above the comprehensive training programme, additional
support tools are provided to assist the participants to implement
their learning in the work place. These programmes provide tools
for implementation by participants, coaching by managers and peer
mentorship using mastermind support groups to ensure continuity
and immediate implementation in the workplace.
These tools include:
Post Course Implementation Plan
The Peer Mentorship Tool
Post Course Coaching Tool Kit
Workplace Based Accountability Tool

Examples and Case Studies

Examples and case studies are used throughout the programme to
illustrate how successful companies consistently build value, enable
innovation, work with risk and execute successful strategies.

BIG
Business Simulation a
Business Innovation Game [BIG]
The unique business simulation runs throughout the programme
and provides an opportunity to test and share ideas in
a stimulating and pressured work environment. The simulation is
used to develop innovative and creative thinking, and then to follow the ideas
and projects through to full implementation, analysis and assessment. It is
designed to identify the gaps that often block creativity and innovation within
organisations, and to develop techniques and processes to overcome the
barriers to success. Organisational alignment, accountability, and a results
orientation are stressed in each session. All interventions are hands-on
working sessions designed to create not theory, but practical, business
building plans and skills that will have an immediate and positive effect on
your business with a tangible return on investment.

Programme Contents
Maximising Success
Creating a culture of creative thinking,
innovation and continuous improvement
Dening innovation and understanding its
scope and impact in the modern business
world and in society
Driving innovation in the workplace,
customers, suppliers and other stakeholders
through systemic behaviour change and
process optimisation
Developing environments that maximise
Innovation
Identifying and overcoming the obstacles
to innovation

Maximising Value with

Innovation Financial Analysis

Implementing Best Practice

Innovative Systems

Understand why analytical thinking should be

linked to numbers, measurable and return on
investment

Taking ideas from concept to reality

How to develop key performance

measurements that drive innovation and
change in an organisation

Establishing development and delivery

processes that consistently deliver value

Critical value and cost analysis of opportunities

Going to market with a complete and

sustainable customer proposition

Monetising ideas

Adapting to competitive pressures

Evaluating return on investment

Organic realignment of organisational

structure and systems

Maximising value creation

Working positively with the laws of probability

Developing nancial processes that allow

and encourage innovation

Analysing the impact of disruption on the

business environment

Developing nancial KPIs that are focused on

ROI, value creation and sustainability

Customer-centricity in dynamic environments

Design of smart metrics to measure

innovation in the organisation and using
dashboards to drive innovation

Working effectively with ideas our own

and others

Aligning Innovation, Business

Environment and Strategy

Driving innovation through dynamic leadership

Evaluating business culture
Aligning the organisation to maximise
value creation

Innovation in the business model

How to extend beyond the existing

organisation in order to drive innovation

Identifying and developing sources of

sustainable competitive advantage
Strategic modelling and analysis
Working with risk, success and failure in a
positive environment
Partnering for value creation
Building a model of innovation that can be
implemented practically at all levels
Developing and aligning KPIs for strategic
success

Building sustainable structures for the

successful communication of ideas in a
corporate environment to create quick wins
and deliver immediate results

Building Innovative Teams

Business analysis identifying the next

big thing
Understanding value chains and ecosystems
and making them work for you

Managing projects holistically, maintaining

innovative thinking, and maximising value

Understanding creativity and entrepreneurship in our people and enabling /

encouraging them to create value
Establishing high performance teams within
the existing organisation
Breaking the silos and embedding an
innovative culture at every level of the
organisation
Using tools and supporting structure to
drive success

In-house training +44 (0)20 7017 4144

Part of Informa Telecoms & Media

As part of Informa Telecoms & Media the
Telecoms Academy has access to up-todate telecoms market research and analysis
available from Ovum, part of Informa
Telecoms & Media. We incorporate this
information into our training programmes
where relevant to ensure that technology and
market developments are put in the context
of wider industry trends. Telecoms Academy
are the only training provider with the
research capabilities and industry knowledge
required to fully apply competency
development with relevance and condence.

Web www.telecomsacademy.com/big

Course Content Post Course

and Implementation Tools
Team Based Business Simulation
Business Innovation Game [BIG]
At the core of this programme is a comprehensive and realistic business
simulation. Working in small teams, delegates are asked to critically
appraise the role and operation of a industry specic company and then
build a commercially-viable, results focused innovation strategy. The
simulation reects all aspects of the programme and opportunity for
practical implementation of learning is set aside on each day. Valuable
feedback and a critical appraisal is provided by facilitators.

Post Course Coaching Toolkit

Structured template driven coaching interventions linked to each training
module will enable managers to effectively coach, train, and further
develop their team members. The coaching toolkit will create skillful
leaders who use their ability to listen, reason, ask penetrating questions,
and bring out the best in their employees.

The Coaching Toolkit will assist in:

Identifying the delegates core challenges or areas
of improvement.

Learning Support Tools

Linking these areas of improvement back to ideas

or techniques in the classroom training.

Additional learning support tools include role-plays, case studies, debates,

team exercises, sh bowl discussions and toolkits including e-books and
book and audio summaries and with templates, white papers, research
and tools linked to industry best practices from Informa and Ovum.

Jointly brain storming options to improve the delegates

knowledge, skills and abilities in these areas of
improvement.

Post Course Implementation Plan

Creating measurable goals, actions and deadlines

for implementation.

This document is designed to encourage individual participants to reect

on the knowledge gained during the programme and to nd ways of
applying the concepts to their own workplace. Delegates are asked
during the course to make notes on ways to improve effectiveness in
their own functional area, such as:

Identifying people and resources will assist in

accomplishing their goals and objectives.
Identifying constraints and brain storming ways to
overcome these challenges.

NEW IDEAS TO INCREASE sales and return on investment

THINGS THAT SHOULD BE STOPPED as they are detrimental to the
sales strategy

Workplace based Accountability Tools

THE CONTRIBUTION OF THOSE IDEAS to short- and long-term

organisational value

The workplace accountability tools will ensure rapid return on investment

by ensuring each team members accountability to turn theory not only
into practice but into consistent systems and productivity.

THE ASSOCIATED KPIs

IMPLEMENTATION REQUIREMENTS

The Peer Mentorship Tool

We will assist your team to establish structured Peer Mentorship Groups
where team members of various levels use a structured process to raise
the bar by challenging each other to create and implement goals,
brainstorm ideas, and support each other with total honesty and respect.
The peer mentorship tool provides the opportunity for peers to give
feedback, help brainstorm new possibilities and set up accountability
structures that keep everyone focused and on track. The Mastermind
Teams will create a community of supportive colleagues who will
brainstorm together to move each other to new heights.

The Accountability Toolkit includes:

One Page Action Plan linking company vision
and values to individual actions and accountability.
Daily Planning Tool improved personal and team
management.
Personal Dashboard linking performance targets
to a highly visual one page report to ensure delivery
and application is always top of mind.
These accountability tools will support participants to develop their team
members and ensure consistent application of theory and rapid results
that simply cannot be achieved with stand-alone training.

Heres what delegates have said about our

other Mini MBA programmes:

Excellent presenters, very professional

and experts in their fields. FA, MTN
Great learning experience.

VK, VODACOM

A very professional course delivered by a

very professional organisation. MA, ORASCOM

Booking line +44 (0)20 7017 4144

Email [email protected]