Organizational Design
for Tech Innovation

High investments are made before the launch of a tech innovation. From then it can take several years till the break-even point is reached, not to mention financial targets. Achieving short Time to Business (TTB) is therefore crucial for success. Organizational design plays a pivotal role in achieving Time to Business.

Goal of this course: Structure and culture for tech innovation.

Did you know that 75% of innovation projects fail, never seeing the light of day or benefiting the company? This is largely due to inadequate leadership, cultural issues, and organizational misalignment. Simply having great ideas and technology isn't sufficient!

What you will learn in this pragmatic course:

A holistic and integral view on product innovation.
How to implement the right organizational structure, depending on the size of the organization.
How to implement an adequate program organization for innovation, even when the functional organization can’t be changed and is a given.
To enable the innovation organization to work autonomously and connected without escalating continuously to senior management.
How to develop the right culture in the tech space, focusing on teams, leadership, and collaboration to get things done
How to get flow and speed by deploying strategy and applying heartbeat.
Overview and common sense in the overload of buzz words and methodologies that claim to be the silver bullet.

Bert van Appeven
Organizational designer and result driven pragmatist.

The participants in our last training gave a mark 9 out of 10!
"Thanks for this very useful and complete training!"
"Absolutely great training! Glad I participated. With beautiful examples to effectively avoid silos within product innovation processes".

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Intended for

All leaders involved in multidisciplinary product/service innovation,
from front end, through NPD/NPI to sales beyond the chasm:

R&D managers
Engineering managers
Senior project managers
Entrepreneurs
Start & scale up leaders
Product line managers
Program managers
PMO managers
Product development managers
Portfolio & marketing managers
Product managers
Business and sales developers
System architects
Innovation managers
University and bachelor professors

Testimonials

Gerrit Sitters

General Manager, Lumicks, Amsterdam HQ.

"Bert has successfully led a complex multi-disciplinary biotech development project within LUMICKS with various external development partners involved. He has the ability to understand an organization quickly and creates structure, process and team focus in a short time. His approach is pragmatic, based on clear trade-offs and modern with respect to being agile and learning fast from the market with early product prototypes."

Andrea Moerenhout

R&D Director Dorel Juvenile Europe.

"We hired Bert as a consultant to support the transformation of the R&D organization. With his knowledge of product development organizations he was able to provide the right inputs that supported the creation of a new development model. His approach is very efficient and effective, asking the right challenging questions to make sure we stayed on the right track towards achieving the goals. He has been a coach, inspirator and motivator to our teams and stakeholders. Bert is a very nice person to work with, always respectful and challenging at times when needed to come to the best results!"

Monique Musch

Senior Director R&D Thermo Fisher Scientific.

“I have got to know Bert van Appeven as a very capable senior leader who combines result orientation with excellent people management skills. He quickly adapts to new organizations and brings out the strengths of the processes and teams as well as identifies improvement areas. His broad experience in product innovation makes the difference”.