🌟And that’s a wrap! Our 2024 Strategic Innovation cohort has officially graduated, concluding a 5 month learning journey on the Innovation in Defence programme. 🌟
Across the course they have: unpacked Defence's unique innovation challenges and opportunities; explored the role of culture, behaviours, structures and processes, spaces, and partnerships in enabling innovation; and developed core skills with expert faculty in topics including:
🔹Scenario planning (Zindzi C.)
🔹Behavioural strategy (#EdwardFlavahan)
🔹Persuasion and storytelling (Stew Bewley)
🔹How to be more experimentally-driven (Maiko Schaffrath)
🎓At the Graduation day, Professor Andre Spicer shared 10 key levers for driving innovation in the workplace, emphasising the importance of bringing stakeholders together in one space:
💬“Knowledge spillovers are often localised…[therefore] physically co-locating people together will rapidly speed up the innovation process… Often real innovation comes from transferring ideas and knowledge across industries, or services and departments in the context of UK Defence’’.
Our participants leave the course with practical tools to drive meaningful action both in their teams and as a community within the UK Ministry of Defence - we can’t wait to see how they put these lessons into action!
A huge thanks to all of our participants, and the faculty who have joined us - including our graduation speakers John S. (jHub Defence), Paul Gallagher (#InnovationBridge), #AlRoan (Cervus) and Reid D. (Head of Entrepreneurship National Security).
📣 Applications for the next round of our Innovation in Defence Training courses are open now, and places are almost full! Find out more at our 15 July Info Session below ⬇️
https://lnkd.in/eqCQASvR
🔍 If you don't work in Defence, but you'd like to find out more about our courses, please reach out to psthelpdesk@public.io
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