Innovation Strategy, Governance and ISO 56001

Course overview

Build a systematic innovation management approach aligned with strategy and ISO 56001.

Innovation Strategy, Governance and ISO 56001 develops the management-system perspective needed to make innovation systematic. The course connects innovation intent, context, leadership, opportunities, portfolios, support, operations, evaluation and improvement, using ISO 56001:2024 as a requirements reference and ISO 56000:2025 for current innovation-management concepts and vocabulary.

Participants work through structured exercises and a realistic innovation challenge, progressively applying innovation management system context and principles, leadership, intent and strategy, planning, support and innovation operations and the later course modules to make evidence-based decisions rather than treating innovation tools as isolated techniques.

The course emphasises practical judgement, usable outputs and workplace transfer so that participants can apply the methods immediately after the programme and adapt them to their organisation’s strategy, governance and innovation environment.

Learning outcomes

What participants will be able to do.

By the end of the course, participants should be able to:

Explain the purpose and structure of an innovation management system.
Interpret ISO 56001:2024 requirements at a practical organisational level.
Analyse organisational context, interested parties and innovation opportunities.
Define innovation intent, objectives and portfolio direction.
Design governance roles, decision rights and accountabilities.
Map innovation processes, support and resource requirements.
Develop performance-evaluation and management-review approaches.
Create an improvement roadmap for innovation management capability.

Who should attend

Designed for professionals building innovation capability.

Executives and senior managers.
Innovation strategy and governance leaders.
Quality, management-system and assurance professionals.
Transformation offices and PMO/portfolio functions.
Consultants supporting innovation management systems.

Prerequisites

Practical, professionally relevant entry requirements.

Participants should have experience with innovation, strategy, governance or management systems.
Familiarity with ISO management-system concepts is helpful but not required.
The course is educational and does not itself provide ISO certification.

Course structure

A five-part journey from strategic intent to a governed innovation management system.

The sequence may be delivered across five days or adapted to another approved format while preserving the learning outcomes.

1

Module 1

Innovation management system context and principles

Systematic innovation and value realisation.
ISO 56001:2024 purpose and structure.
Current ISO 56000:2025 concepts and terminology.
Context, interested parties and strategic issues.
Innovation opportunity areas.

2

Module 2

Leadership, intent and strategy

Leadership commitment and innovation culture.
Innovation intent and strategic direction.
Objectives and value ambition.
Roles, responsibilities and authorities.
Portfolio alignment and decision rights.

3

Module 3

Planning, support and innovation operations

Risks, opportunities and planning.
Resources, competence and awareness.
Knowledge, communication and documentation.
Innovation initiatives and processes.
Partnerships and external collaboration.

4

Module 4

Performance evaluation and governance

Innovation performance measures.
Monitoring, analysis and evaluation.
Management review and governance cadence.
Internal assurance and evidence.
Balancing control with exploration.

5

Module 5

Improvement and implementation roadmap

Nonconformity, learning and corrective action concepts.
Continual improvement of innovation capability.
Gap assessment.
Implementation priorities and ownership.
Innovation management system roadmap.

Learning experience

Apply ideas—not simply remember terminology.

The course uses a structured mix of explanation, facilitated discussion, realistic innovation challenges and workplace-focused application.

Analyse

Integrated innovation case

Participants diagnose a realistic innovation situation and progressively build the course-specific innovation approach.

Practise

Tools and working templates

Exercises produce practical maps, canvases, decision aids, experiments, analyses and other course-specific working outputs.

Decide

Scenario-based workshops

Teams assess evidence, compare options, manage uncertainty and make defensible innovation decisions.

Reflect

Professional judgement

Facilitated reviews connect innovation methods with leadership behaviour, governance, ethics and accountability.

Apply

Workplace transfer

Participants identify how to adapt the methods to their own innovation challenges and organisational environment.

Reinforce

Knowledge checks

Short reviews, peer challenge and facilitator feedback confirm understanding and identify areas requiring further development.

Completion requirements

Demonstrate participation, application and professional judgement.

Participate actively in discussions, exercises and innovation workshops.
Complete the principal course outputs assigned during the programme.
Contribute to the final application or decision workshop.
Complete knowledge checks and a personal workplace action plan.

Participant outputs

Typical course outputs include:

Innovation management system context map.
Innovation intent and objective framework.
Governance and responsibility model.
Innovation process/system map.
Performance and management-review framework.
ISO 56001-aligned gap assessment and implementation roadmap.

Delivery options

Choose the format that fits your people and business requirements.

Instructor-led

Live Classroom

Facilitated face-to-face learning with group exercises, case work, discussion and immediate feedback.

Instructor-led

Live Virtual Classroom

Interactive online delivery with facilitated workshops, collaborative activities and real-time discussion.

Flexible

Blended Learning

A structured combination of preparation, live facilitation, assignments and follow-up application.

Organisation-specific

Corporate and In-Company

Customised delivery aligned with the organisation’s strategy, terminology, innovation environment, governance and capability priorities.

Frequently asked questions

Course information and participation.

Do I need previous innovation experience?

The expected experience varies by course level. Foundation programmes require no formal innovation qualification; intermediate and advanced programmes benefit from relevant workplace exposure. The prerequisites above provide the course-specific guidance.

Will participants receive practical tools?

Yes. The programme uses structured templates and produces practical outputs that participants can adapt to their organisations, subject to local governance, legal and methodology requirements.

Can the programme be customised for an organisation?

Yes. Corporate delivery can incorporate organisation-specific innovation challenges, strategy, cases, governance, terminology, tools, portfolio priorities and expected outputs.

Does completion provide a professional certification?

The course develops practical innovation capability and provides an INDENTRA course-completion record where applicable. It is not presented as a third-party professional certification unless separately stated.

Can the five Modules be delivered in another format?

Yes. INDENTRA may adapt sequencing, exercises and delivery format while preserving the stated learning outcomes and overall learning effort.

Take the next step

Establish strategic direction, governance, roles, processes and continual improvement for an innovation management system aligned with ISO 56001:2024.

Discuss public delivery, a corporate cohort or a tailored programme aligned with your organisation’s innovation priorities.

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