Ination Development Manager

Job Description

Areas of responsibility and activities1. To lead development and continuous update of the organizations innovation vision and strategy in coordination with key stakeholders
• Initiate relevant market monitoring and fore sighting activities, including search for new market opportunities, user needs
• Align and integrate the innovation strategy with strategic objectives of the organization, including operational and business models, and road maps for products and services
• Define and assess key organizational prerequisites (structure, staffing, etc) for implementing the innovation strategy
• Build and maintain a strategic programmer for implementing the innovation strategy and ensure that the resources (people and facilities) needed to deliver the innovation objectives are present
• Maintain an innovation portfolio (consisting of e.g. innovation- or new business development projects)
• Develop alternative business models conducive to innovation
2. To lead development and the continuous update of the organizations innovation process(es) in coordination with key stakeholders
• Develop appropriate metrics to measure the effectiveness (e.g., number of new or improved offerings) and efficiency (e.g., throughput time) of the innovation process
• Develop innovation process documentation and implement staff training programmed
3. To lead development and the continuous maintenance of an inventory of innovation methods and tools, including idea management systems, idea generation methods, staff training programmed, and internal networking initiatives
• Provide consultation on innovation tools when needed
• Convene workshops with clearly defined innovation themes
• Structure and implement staff training programmed
• Implement and support an organization-wide idea management system, including the gathering, evaluation, selection and implementation of employees ideas
4. To plan, execute/coach and follow-up innovation initiatives/projects to search for new opportunities, or to strengthen of existing operations and/or business
• Define project outline (e.g., objectives, goals, scope, activities, duration, participants, budget, expected results) and inform and engage internal and external participants (employees, customers, users, suppliers or other stakeholders)
• Analyses current market situation, challenges and potential opportunities
• Convene workshops with engaged stakeholders
• Clarify customer/user values and insights and create/describe scenarios for the future
• Cluster ideas into concepts
• Develop and verify prototypes (e.g., illustrations, mock-ups, wire-frame models)
• Build cases around concepts and manage a portfolio of concepts
• Present concepts to management and suggest future actions
5. To establish relationships with external stakeholders and potential partners within the academia, government, industry and other relevant organizations
• Participate in external networking activities
• Convene themed workshops with external stakeholders or partners
6. To promote an innovation friendly organizational culture supporting experimentation, open communication, empowerment, autonomy and a tolerance for failure
• Conduct measurements of organizational innovation culture
• Structure and implement leadership training programmes
• Assess and restructure the organizations employee incentive structure / reward system
• Assess and remove factors that may hinder employees job autonomy (e.g., timedraining activities, unnecessary administration, reporting-structures)
• Establish relationships and networks with internal stakeholders

Keyskills :
environmental scanningcustomer driven innovationinnovation managementinnovation consulting