Join us in the upcoming Leaders of Next Intensive May 22–26.
Register to receive a 25% discount for our upcoming intensive.
Organizations make significant, ongoing investments in their performance systems to ensure their enterprises operate efficiently, effectively, and profitably. But those systems cannot produce the innovation outcomes that those organizations desire.
Participating in the Leaders of Next Intensive is an investment in defining, establishing, and operating an innovation system capable of producing those results.
Leaders of Next lays the foundation from which your leaders will shift innovation from a creative and unstructured act; to a rigorous, managed system in which executives, managers, and innovators create new value and extraordinary impact.
What will you get?
New skills and tools
The Leaders of Next Intensive equips your innovation leaders with the language, frameworks, tools, and skills they need to:
- Identify crucial innovation roles, responsibilities, and skills
- Understand the critical differences between a Now System and a Next System
- Identify crucial elements of your Next System for development
- Manage Next Oppotunity Portfolios
- Run discovery-driven development using the Next Cycle
- Make executive innovation decisions and govern the Next Cycle
- Capture Next LFIs (learnings from investment)
- Evaluate the effectiveness of innovation strategies
- Improve collaboration and coordination between your Now System and Next System
- Establish a Next Funding Model
- Establish the Next Rules that will guide and govern how innovation is done
- Outline and develop your organization’s innovation playbook
A rigorous system of innovation (Schedule)
Focus: 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 Explored:
- Performance System vs. Next System
- Next Roles and Responsibilities
- Next Goals & Strategies
Focus: 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 Explored:
- Next Cycle
- Next Advocacy
- Next Operating Principles
- Next Metrics and KPIs
- Next Playbook
Focus: Centering 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 Explored:
- Next Skills
- Next Advocates
- Next Partners
- Next Relationships
- Next Motivation and Compensation
- Next Ecosystem
Focus: 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 Explored:
- Next Vision
- Next Purpose
- Next Values
- Next Language
- Next Rituals
- Next Tools & Technologies
- Next Data and Knowledge
Focus: 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 Explored:
- Next Governance
- Next Policies
- Next Decision Criteria
- Next Knowledge Management
Next Resources
To support the application of knowledge, frameworks, tools, and skills gained through the Leaders of Next Intensive, participants will also have access to:
- Use the Next Lab. Solve Next will train your executives, managers, and innovators to support their high-performance innovation using the Next Lab.
- Build Your Next Habits. Your leaders will have access to this behavior-building software, which incorporates behavior science and nudge technology to help participants build the habit of using their new knowledge and skills in their everyday work.
- Participate in Innovators & Instigators. Our global community helps fellow members lead innovation locally through their worldwide experience. Your participants will be invited to join Innovators & Instigators, our exclusive annual summits, talks, and more.
Leaders of Next is an intensive, 5-day professional development experience designed to equip your executives, managers, and innovators with knowledge and practical skills by introducing and applying innovation system frameworks and tools.
The intensive is organized to explore and define the People, Process, and Platform Layers of a Next System. Your leaders will gain hands-on experience with frameworks and tools that help them identify crucial components of each layer.
People Layer
Identify the roles, responsibilities, skills, mindsets, experiences, and behaviors required to run your Next System.
Process layer
Identify the operating principles, policies, methods, criteria, metrics, governance, and funding models required to run your Next System.
Platform Layer
Identify the cultural foundation upon which your Next System runs—your vision, purpose, values, language, and rituals, and identify the technical foundation upon which your Next System runs—the data, knowledge, and tools.
Global Network
As a participant in the Leaders of Next Intensive, you’ll join a powerful network of leaders from around the world. You’ll have access to an exclusive community with events, resources, and connections that will help you expand your reach, build new relationships, and advance your career.
Register to receive a 25% discount for our upcoming intensive.
