SMU Academy

Graduate Certificate in Applied Innovation

Innovation Portfolio Management (IPM)
– Organising and Executing for Success
(Credit Bearing to Graduate Certificate in Applied Innovation)

FINANCIAL
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Overview
Organizations such as Google and Starbucks have implemented game-changing
innovations in strategic ways that add tremendous value to the big picture. This
course aims to equip participants with the skill to evaluate the best approach to
implement innovation within an organization. This will include defining and developing
an innovation implementation framework that best fits with the organization's strategy
and culture.
Learning Objectives
Through participating in this course, you will be able to: Professor Thomas Menkhoff
• Create a Portfolio of Innovation Projects through “Innovation Value Chain”
Professor, Organisation Behaviour
and Human Resources (Eductation),
o Value Driven Project Prioritization
Lee Kong Chian School of Business

o Assessing need to set up Innovation/Transformation outfits (labs/centres/institutes) Professor, Organisation

Behaviour and Human
• Develop a Framework for Innovation Implementation
Resources (Eductation), Lee
Kong Chian School of
o Triggering Opportunities and new-growth innovation through Design
Thinking Business

o Developing an innovation value stream map Dr. Thomas Menkhoff served

as Academic Director of
o Assessing the need to apply technology as a mechanism to support innovation SMU’s Master of Science in
Innovation Programme. He is
o Setting up and financial evaluation of innovation projects to support strategy goals an award-winning educator
(and frequent contributor of
o Supporting innovation projects through process optimisation the Business Times) and has
published numerous articles
o Showcasing Innovation Effort in scholarly journals and
several books on
• Understand the parameters for setting up innovation team
socio-cultural dimensions of
Who Should Attend managing knowledge
transfer, innovation and
Startup owners, entrepreneurs, business owners, executives and individuals who
change in multi-cultural
seeks to enhance innovation in their business or to create innovation centres
contexts and Asian
within their organisations. Individuals who want to understand innovation and
entrepreneurship. Two of his
develop implementation and actionable plans for their organizations.
recent publications include
Assessment “2010 Governing and
Managing Knowledge in
An assessment will be conducted at the end of the course.
Asia”, “Series on Innovation
Fees and Funding and Knowledge
Management” and “2014
Fees Catalyst for Change –
S$1,712 (after GST) for non-Singapore Citizens and non-Permanent Residents. Chinese Business in Asia”.

SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) Funding: Dr. Thomas Menkhoff has

served, amongst others as
S$513.60 (after GST) for Singaporeans below 40 and Permanent Residents. consultant to German
S$193.60 (after GST) for Singaporeans age 40 and above. Agency of Technical
Cooperation (GTZ), the
Funding Government of Singapore,
the Commonwealth
SkillsFuture Series Secretariat, Arthur D Little,
Course fee grant at 70% of course fees (excluding GST) for participants who are Asian Productivity
successfully enrolled by SMU into approved courses under the Programme. Organization (APO), the
Participants must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents. World Bank, the Asian
Development Bank (ADB),
SkillsFuture Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy ("MCES") the Government of Malaysia
Up to 90% of course fees for Singapore Citizens aged 40 years and above and various corporation such
as SembCorp Marine or
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs ("ETSS") Singapore Power.

Up to 90% of course fees; and 80% of basic hourly salary capped at $7.50/hr for local
employees of SMEs.

SkillsFuture Credit
Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above, and self-funding may use their SkillsFuture
Credit (up to S$500) to defray part of the course fee.

Mr. Kan Siew Ning

Adjunct Lecturer,
Lee Kong Chian School of Business

Adjunct Lecturer, Lee Kong

Chian School of Business

Mr. Kan Siew Ning worked

for the Singapore
Government from 1985 to
2011. In 2011, he was a
Director of Police Technology
Department, managing 250
people and almost 100 IT
and engineering projects. He
had also ran a
government-owned venture
capital firm, Cap Vista Pte.
Ltd., and was the president
of the Information and
Management Society.

Mr. Kan has been teaching

university courses since
2001, and has taught in
SMU, NTU and NUS. The
topics include knowledge
management, smart cities,
drones and robotics,
leadership and team
building, human capital
management, and public
sector IT system. He
received several teachings
award and adjunct teaching
in SMU. He has also taught
short overseas courses at the
University of Mauritius and
Hong Kong Civil Service
Bureau. One of his recently
edited publications is: ”Living
in Smart Cities: Innovation
and Sustainability” (with
Thomas Menkhoff,
Hans-Dieter Evers and Chay
Yue Wah), World Scientific
Publishing 2017 forthcoming.

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