Ledarskapsprogram för innovation
Since the 28thof May the project to develop an internal Innovation Leadership Program (ILP)on Accenture has been running and came to an end in November the same year. The taskwas formed into a master thesis and given to two students at the Royal Institute ofTechnology in Sweden.Since the start the content and structure of the ILP has been established based on the resultsof a theoretical study, a gap analysis and an external and internal benchmarking. The theoreticalstudy focused on articles, books and lectures about innovation, creativity and pedagogy. Subjectssuch as leadership, motivation, reflection and coaching were studied as well, but in a smaller scale.The gap analysis consisted of eleven interviews with people from different career levels withinAccenture and the goal was to establish the view of innovation and creativity among the employees.The interviews also asked about the knowledge the participants had about Technology Lab in orderto get insight of how to improve their communication and cooperation with people in client projects.Internally a similar program was studied called Minority Leadership program, whom will not bedescribed further in this report, to get inspiration. The external benchmarking was conducted onStanford and was very successful. It gave inspiration to program structure and how to put acrosssubject areas of the content to the program participants.The gained insight reported of concern among the employees to not be able to deliver feasiblesolutions in time to their clients due to the increased time consumption and risk accompanied withheightened levels of creativity. They also worried about loosing career opportunities as consequenceof the previous. When it came to the cooperation and communication with Technology Lab bothparties turned out to be lacking in tools, knowledge and yet again in time.The initial purposes for the project have been altered and reshaped during the project due to differentcircumstances, butthe final and definitive purposeswere formulated after the result of thebenchmarking and analysis is as follows;?To enhance Accenture business opportunities?To contribute to Accenture?s brand development, to give clients of Accenture confirmationthat the organization is innovative?To attract the best candidate by showing innovative projects.?If necessary, to create a common definition of innovation and creativity throughout theorganization.?To initiate an innovation network that connects innovative individuals throughout theorganization to each other?To facilitate and improve potential channels for Technology Lab in order to enhance theirprofitable activitiesBased on these purposes the program will consist of a theoretical part and a practical part. Thetheoretical part will be discussed during a two-day kickoff. During the practical part the participantswill be given the assignment to observe, evaluate and improve another project in pairs.So, why implement or attend ILP? The opportunities generated by implementing ILP enableAccenture to gather their innovative competence in innovative networks and in that way be able toutilize their capability completely. This can eventuate in new business opportunities and makeAccenture differentiate themselves further and in that way stay ahead of the competition