Training and professional development in corporate innovation management

This certifying program covers all facets of this fast-growing function. Best state of the art, masterclasses from leading companies, experience-sharing: it has already been followed by more than 500 senior executives from 400 organizations, with a satisfaction rate close to 100%.

2026 program:

April 2, 2026 — The stakes of innovation management in a fast-changing world. Evolution of the context, new constraints and opportunities. Evolution of innovation governance. Objectives, strategies, missions and priorities of Innovation Departments, major challenges for the years ahead 2026-2035+ (venue: Hôtel de l’Industrie).

May 21, 2026 — The importance of a culture of innovation within the company, a fundamental mission of Innovation Departments: principles, values, visions, practices. Establishing and renewing a shared culture of innovation and spreading a living culture of innovation: commitment and initiatives involving the whole company (venue: BercyLab, Ministry of Finance).

June 25, 2026 — The Innovation Director’s means of action: budgets and human resources, dedicated venues, tools: innovation centers, labs, innovation days, seminars… Executive committees dedicated to innovation. Innovation dashboards and project portfolios. Value and limits of tools and methods, good practices (venue: NEXT, Sopra Steria).

September 24, 2026 — The upstream of the innovation process: technological, marketing and societal inputs: imagination, inspiration, ideation; the different approaches, from ideas to pitches, from pitches to briefs. From techno-centric to human-centric approaches: design thinking, better life, experience design, economy of the common good… (venue: Hôtel de l’Industrie).

October 22, 2026 — Access to the best technologies: internal R&D, partnership research, purchases of “technology assets”, sourcing of high-tech companies, and personalized meetings with the heads of leading scientific and technological institutes in the technological fields of interest (venue: Les Rendez-vous Carnot, Espace Champerret).

November 5-6, 2026 — Aix-Marseille-Provence study trip: visits and masterclasses at a dozen leading companies and organizations (ITER, Airbus Helicopters, CMA CGM, Marseille Provence Airport and Port of Marseille Fos, Euroméditerranée, data center, Onet, Pernod Ricard, L’Occitane, Le Club 29, AMU, ZEBOX…). Managing internal/external innovation partnerships: steering innovation teams and local and global innovation ecosystems.

November 26, 2026 — The downstream of the innovation process: implementing innovation and the challenge of scaling up and industrialization. The importance of the prototype phase (beyond POCs and MVPs) and of a good handover to industrialization. Project briefs, creative synthesis: go/no-go, design, prototyping, launch, managing successes and failures (venue: ENSAM Paris or Hôtel de l’Industrie).

The full program can be requested through the outline request below.