Innovation Measurement Workshop - CPT
Wed Nov 19, 09:00 - Thu Nov 20, 17:00
Colab Training Solutions
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Disruption creates both risk & opportunity. This workshop gives your organisation a practical playbook for building resilience, managing uncertainty, and unlocking growth through disciplined innovation.
By attending, you will learn how to:
- Strengthen strategic innovation: Learn how to anticipate disruption, build an innovation thesis, connect innovation directly to business priorities, and align product development portfolios with long-term strategy
- Improve portfolio performance: Reduce wasteful spending & improve portfolio balance by implementing modern frameworks and applying disciplined decision-making to your product development environment
- Accelerate product development: Use experiment-driven development to reduce development cycle times, validate assumptions faster, and bring successful products to market sooner
- Boost innovation success rates: Implement standardised metrics that measure both progress & outcomes, ensure development goals are targetted against real-world data, and create clarity across projects through universal & comparable measures
- Enhance cultural resilience: Shift attitudes towards innovation by embedding fair & scalable performance measures, normalising failure as valuable data gathering, and encouraging cross-functional collaboration
- Build organisational discipline: Adopt robust & mature innovation processes across teams to simplify management, create governance that augments rather than stifles creativity, and encourage risk-informed decision-making
- Improve communication: Utilise a shared language of innovation to communicate development progress and ensure leadership’s confidence in innovation’s value
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This workshop is designed for leaders & practitioners involved in shaping, managing and executing innovation & new product development, such as:
- Executives & Senior Leaders: CEO’s, CFO’s, COOs, and Board Members who need clearer visibility into innovation performance, confidence in capital allocation, and assurance of strategic competitiveness
- Innovation Leaders & Portfolio Owners: Heads of Innovation, New Product Development Managers, and Centre-of-Excellence Leads who need proven tools to manage portfolios, build consistent & successful processes, and fairly measure innovation’s impact & value
- Product Managers & Development Teams: Product Owners, R&D leads, and cross-functional teams tasked with delivering new solutions under uncertainty who need a practical ways to reduce risk, accelerate development, and avoid rework.
- Start-up Founders & Scale-up Teams: Early-stage entrepreneurs who need to validate ideas quickly, allocate scarce capital & resources wisely, and build a scalable innovation system.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
This workshop equips you with practical tools, frameworks and confidence to set up, scale, and improve your innovation system:
- Design a fit-for-purpose development framework: Adapt leading innovation and product development processes to your organisation’s specific needs
- Reduce uncertainty with experiment-driven development: Replace assumptions with data by embedding scientific thinking & structured experimentation, enabling your teams to reduce risks and accelerate progress.
- Track & measure venture progression: Use simple, standardised, and actionable metrics to show which projects are promising, which should pivot, and which to stop before resources are wasted
- Safeguard your innovation system health: Recognise the warning signs of shortcuts & skipped steps, and apply predictive indicators that keep your development pipeline healthy & future-ready
- Create a robust innovation strategy: Connect bold innovation ambitions to your organisational strategy and translate them into clear goals, cascading incentives, and execution-level guidance.
- Ensure organisational buy-in: Create a shared language for innovation to explain progress, risks, and successes in a way that resonates with executives, managers, and teams alike
DETAILED AGENDA
19 & 20 November 2025

OTHER
- It is strongly recommended that you attend all sessions on both days. Content from later modules builds off of concepts introduced in earlier modules.
- Please ensure that you bring note-taking equipment (exam pad, laptop, etc.).
- Lunch will be served at the break.
- Tea & coffee will be available throughout the workshop.
- Please arrive 30 minutes in advance as the workshop will start exactly on time.
- Special arrangements can be made for organisations who send multiple participants. Please reach out to [email protected] for more information