In cooperation with the Council for Cooperation between Science and Economy, the Business Academy of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia is organizing training of the Academy of Open Innovations intended for representatives of large, medium and small companies with the aim of guiding the acquired knowledge in choosing an efficient methodology for increasing innovation capacity.
"This is an important education for all companies, regardless of whether they introduce innovations in the portfolio of their services using solutions from external companies, partners and startups or promote the company's innovation with ideas and solutions of employees," explained Dr. Mila Milenković, lecturer at the Open Innovation Academy. . He points out that the participants will first get acquainted with the very concept of open innovation, which means that companies can and should use external and internal ideas to improve technology or service offerings.
Three complementary methodologies were presented at the Academy - Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Canvas Business Model, which puts the user or employees in the center of attention and identifies the problem (gap) that should be solved through some innovation.
Adequate methodology for support and implementation of innovative solutions is Agile project management with a focus on Scrum and Kanban, which completes in a two-day training all the latest methodologies to support Open Innovation, Milenković explains. The training is useful for corporations that are opening up to the outside to cooperate with smaller innovative companies, as well as for all smaller agile companies and startups that participate in the Open Innovation chain.
There is a need for greater agility to manage innovation in companies, regardless of their size and scope. Every company that wants to be successful in the conditions of fast market changes and great uncertainties, must establish a constant cycle of innovation. The Open Innovation Academy helps companies of different sizes and fields of activity to start innovative capacities, both through cooperation with others and by using internal innovations.
Participants do not hide their satisfaction with the knowledge they gained at the Academy Nikola Perić, PMO, Mozzart points out that the Academy of Open Innovations is the right measure of academic and practical, and his colleague in charge of innovations in the company Daniela Perović gained valuable experience, learning from the best.
"It meant a lot to us that the experience from the project of Corporate Innovations of Telekom Srbija was shared at the lecture, because our company is in the process of a project that promotes internal innovations," Perović explained.
About the lecturer - Dr. Mila Milenković
He has been working for twelve years on establishing a partner ecosystem in the company Telekom Srbija, and in the last few years with smaller startup companies, and he can boast of rich experience and research in the field of Open Innovations.
"For research in the preparation of a doctoral thesis, I chose this topic with the desire to help myself and others through the establishment of an adequate model to support Open Innovation and the choice of an adequate way of management. Namely, in the cooperation of different companies, at the "interfaces" between them, there is a great need to adjust the way of work and management, so that ideas and knowledge can easily pass from one company to another and enable unhindered development of innovative solutions," said Mila.
He points out that the innovative business logic, as well as the willingness to share fairly between companies, because the sharing of risks in the value chain is the basis for revenue sharing, so that in ‘open innovation’ this business model prevails.