In this program overview, Bryan Santiago will discuss how Open Innovation has developed from an emerging practice by a few pioneering companies in the early 2000’s into an established approach for Innovation Management.

Today, Open Innovation has matured into a repeatable, scalable, and reliable approach for integrating and collaborating knowledge & ideas from a wide variety of people outside organizations – including customers, suppliers, competitors, the academe, technologists, and others.

This program aims to equip business owners, HR, technology leaders, executives, managers, and practitioners with the needed frameworks, principles, methods, and approaches to jumpstart, lead and establish an Open Innovation Program for their organization.

The program builds on the Open Innovation concepts with hands-on exercises designed to build the practical skills needed to successfully design, develop and execute Open Innovation Challenges that build and tap open ecosystems for knowledge exchange, complex business problem-solving, idea generation, product development, and others.

An overview of the upcoming program starting on 19 March 2022 will also be discussed.