The Leaders of Next Intensive is a transformative program.
Designed to equip executives, managers, and innovation team leaders with the skills, tools, and knowledge to establish and operate a rigorous, disciplined innovation system that aligns with existing performance systems to create meaningful impact and lead your organization to what’s next.
A performance system cannot generate innovation that works.
It was never designed to do so.
Aligning the Performance and Innovation Systems is crucial to fostering collaboration, encouraging an innovative mindset, and nurturing a culture of innovation. By embracing both, we can drive transformation, achieve organizational excellence, and stay ahead in today’s rapidly evolving landscape.
Why it matters?
Learn to lead next.
An innovation system can drive value creation, sustainable growth, and a culture of innovation. The Leaders of Next Intensive equips executives, managers, and innovation team leaders with the knowledge, frameworks, tools, and skills to create meaningful impact and lead their organizations to what’s next.
Establishing an Innovation System is crucial for driving innovation success within organizations. It provides a structured and systematic approach to foster creativity, manage resources, and achieve desired outcomes.
The Leaders of Next Intensive shows how to:
Drive innovation success.
Structure innovation.
Manage capital.
Achieve desired outcomes.
Improve continuously.
By acquiring a deeper understanding of Performance Systems and developing our Innovation System, executives, managers, and innovation team leaders will be more prepared to collaborate effectively with Performance System leaders. This collaboration will enhance alignment, coordination, and cooperation between the two systems, improving the ability to deliver value and create impact.
The Leaders of Next Intensive shows how to:
Enhance collaboration
Align, coordinate, and cooperate
Improve delivery of value
Impact results
Mutually reinforce systems
The intensive gives Leaders of Next the tools and frameworks to adopt a managed and disciplined approach to creating value for our organization. By following systematic processes and using practical evaluation and governance practices, leaders can maximize the impact of their innovation efforts and drive tangible results.
The Leaders of Next Intensive shows how to:
Adopt a managed and disciplined approach
Maximize the impact of innovation investments
Drive tangible results
Enhance value creation
Optimize innovation impact
Through effective resource allocation and governance, innovation systems can eliminate capital leakage, ensuring that our investments in innovation are directed toward projects and initiatives with the highest potential for success and impact.
The Leaders of Next Intensive shows how to:
Eliminate capital leakage
Optimize capital utilization
Enhance LFI from innovation investments
Increase value creation and impact
Intelligent use of innovation capacity
The knowledge and skills gained from the intensive will enable Leaders of Next to transform your innovation system’s decision-making processes. They will know how to make informed choices, allocate resources strategically, and drive innovation initiatives that align with your organization’s vision, purpose, values, goals, and strategies.
The Leaders of Next Intensive shows how to:
Gain Next leadership knowledge and skills
Inform decision-making
Allocate resources strategically
Align with organizational elements
Enhance innovation impact
Leaders of Next will gain the ability to guide teams through discovery-driven development. Executives, managers, and innovation team leaders will be equipped to foster an environment of experimentation, learning, and iteration, leading to breakthrough innovations and continuous improvement.
The Leaders of Next Intensive shows how to:
Lead your organization to next
Foster an environment of experimentation
Promote continuous learning and iteration
Drive breakthrough innovations
Enable continuous improvement
Equip your executives, managers, and innovators to lead your organization to next.
Make Next Happen.
The intensive prepares leaders to define, establish, and run a rigorous, disciplined innovation system.
Explore the complexities of building a robust and effective Innovation System within your organization. Throughout the intensive, examine the various components that form the foundation of an innovation-driven culture.
Laying the groundwork for your organization’s innovation system. We’ll examine how essential elements like roles, responsibilities, strategic planning, knowledge management, and values are structured and managed to support innovation.
Innovation System components you will explore:
Performance System vs. Next System
Next Roles and Responsibilities
Next Goals & Strategies
Diving into the management of the innovation process. We’ll explore how your organization operates its innovation efforts, measures progress, and uses past experiences to learn and improve.
Innovation System components you will explore:
Next Cycle
Next Advocacy
Next Operating Principles
Next Metrics and KPIs
Next Playbook
Focusing on the people who drive your organization’s innovation. We’ll examine how your organization cultivates advocates, forms partnerships, builds relationships, motivates its people, and develops skills for innovation.
Innovation System components you will explore:
Next Skills
Next Advocates
Next Partners
Next Relationships
Next Motivation and Compensation
Next Ecosystem
Looking at the infrastructure that supports your organization’s innovation system. We’ll discuss your organization’s vision, purpose, language, rituals, technology, and how it leverages data to create value and drive innovation.
Innovation System components you will explore:
Next Vision
Next Purpose
Next Values
Next Language
Next Rituals
Next Tools & Technologies
Next Data and Knowledge
Delving into the more advanced aspects of your organization’s innovation system. We’ll examine how your organization handles governance, policy-making, decision-making, and rules of engagement and manages knowledge at a systemic level to drive innovation.
Innovation System components you will explore:
Next Governance
Next Policies
Next Decision Criteria
Next Knowledge Management
What participants say.
“The understanding of a performance system vs. innovation system, how they differ and rely on one another. This, I feel has been a missing part of many conversations around innovation, and I believe will help to create more collaboration from both sides of the aisle.”
Marcus “Cus” Carrion Learning Environment Analyst United States Department of Defense
Lead, manage, and execute innovation strategies throughout the Next Cycle.
The Next Lab provides executives, managers, and innovation teams with the tools they need to define, establish, operate, and improve your Next System.
Your digital toolkit for getting from now to next.
Transform how your organization innovates with Next Lab Professional.
Next Lab Professional by Solve Next
Revolutionize your organization’s approach to innovation with the Next Lab Professional, an all-in-one innovation management software solution from Solve Next.
Foster Innovation and Engagement
Transform how your team engages and innovates with this user-friendly tool. Utilize its advanced features to usher in groundbreaking changes, making your organization an industry disruptor.
Create, Collaborate, and Solve
Next Lab Professional enables you to design sessions, sprints, and projects efficiently. Share your innovative concepts with participants, fostering a collaborative environment and leveraging collective wisdom to address complex problems Think Wrong to create innovative solutions.
160+ Think Wrong Drills
Boost your organization’s problem-solving ability with access to over 160+ Think Wrong Drills. These drills provide dynamic, fresh approaches to innovation, helping you break free from traditional thought patterns.
Unlimited Access and Creation
Enjoy unrestricted access to all templates, and exercise your creativity with unlimited on-the-fly drills. Create unlimited sessions, sprints, and projects that give your innovation processes a robust structure and lasting impact.
Organize Innovation Projects
Next Lab Professional equips you with everything you need to design, execute, capture, and share world-class innovation sessions, in-person or virtual. It provides a comprehensive platform to organize your innovation projects, ensuring seamless workflow and impactful results.
Learn from the Best.
Access pre-recorded webinars, helpful tips, and best practices to keep you at the forefront of innovation management.
Registration fees.
Leaders of Next Intensive
$7,500.00
1
Unit
Drive innovation, create value, and lead your organization to next.
Deep understanding of the core components of an innovation system
Practical insights on establishing and operating an effective innovation system
Approaches for aligning innovation goals and strategies with organizational vision, purpose, and values
Techniques for effective resource allocation and governance within the innovation system
Best practices for driving innovation excellence and maximizing organizational success
Tools and frameworks to support innovation process management and decision-making
Networking opportunities with fellow leaders and innovators
Access to Solve Next’s global community: Innovators & Instigators
1-year Next Lab Professional Membership
Next Lab Professional
Annual membership
$999.00
100% Off
$0.00
1Unit
The Leaders of Next Intensive includes one full year of access to Next Lab Professional.
Access over 160+ innovation drills
Access dozens of innovation templates for running sessions at crucial Next Cycle moments and specific innovation challenges
Create Think Wrong Sprints and Sessions for every step of the Next Cycle
Generate posters and worksheets to support in-person and virtual collaborations
Create templates from your most valuable sprints and sessions
Get pro tips on how to run online and in-person sprints and sessions throughout the Next Cycle
Register today.
Discounts are available at registration for groups of 5 or more.
