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Description

Innovation Management and AI: Explore, Select and Deploy

One day to build an innovation pipeline that survives beyond the demo

  • 1 day — 7 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Expert
  • Up to 6 participants

Demonstrators follow one another and stop there. A team tests a tool, obtains an encouraging result, presents a demo, and then the subject fades away for lack of an owner, a budget and a decision criterion. Innovation remains a stock of scattered initiatives that nobody knows how to prioritise or close.

This 7-hour day treats innovation as a managed process. Participants organise idea collection, set the criteria for moving from one stage to the next, run time-boxed experiments and prepare the conditions for either scaling up or a deliberate stop.

Learning objectives

  • Structure an innovation pipeline into stages and decision gates
  • Define the selection and stop criteria for an initiative
  • Design an experiment with a limited duration and budget
  • Organise the move from a demonstrator to an operated service
  • Report on the performance of an innovation portfolio

What makes this programme different

An innovation pipeline mapped out in session with its decision gates
A time-boxed experiment brief ready to be launched
A set of stop criteria to close an initiative without conflict

Programme

1Framing the innovation approach

Moving beyond a pile of ideas

  • Internal sources of ideas and signals from the market
  • Distinguishing continuous improvement from disruption
  • Qualifying an idea as an intent to experiment
  • Roles and decision-making bodies

2Experimenting with AI

Fast proof and a narrow scope

  • Designing a time-boxed experiment
  • Selecting proof indicators before launch
  • Building a joint business and technical team
  • Handling the data required for the trial
  • Deciding whether to continue or stop

3Industrialising and steering the portfolio

From demonstrator to service

  • Technical and organisational conditions for scaling up
  • Transferring ownership to an operations team
  • Budget and resources committed at each stage
  • Portfolio dashboard
  • Communicating results and decisions to stop

Who is it for

Innovation directors · transformation leads · project managers and members of investment committees.

Prerequisites

Holding responsibility for managing projects or a portfolio of initiatives.

Dates & locations

36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.