Mitsubishi Chemical Group - Overcoming Barriers to Innovation
Nottingham University Business School, in collaboration with Mitsubishi Chemical Group, delivered an executive training programme as part of its Net Zero Acrylics Prosperity Partnership, in September 2023 at Gisborough Hall in North Yorkshire.
The Executive Education team at Nottingham University Business School works with clients to create effective learning programmes that are right for their organisation. We use our expertise, experience, and sector relationships to listen to our customers’ requirements, needs and aspirations, tailoring our programmes so that they deliver the results they want to achieve.
The Mitsubishi Chemical’s project, Overcoming Barriers to Innovation, was delivered by Professor Simon Mosey, Dr Hannah Noke, Dr Christopher Carter and Dr Jose Gonzalez Lopez to 35 delegates.
In this interactive workshop, participants used the Ingenuity Process to develop strategies and action plans so that the outcomes for the different work packages will be improved.
Our objective was clear – to empower all the delegates to actively contribute and extract maximum value from the session. Using the Ingenuity Online process to stimulate conversations within the groups, we embarked on a journey to design, develop and deliver comprehensive training that addressed challenges facing the group. It’s all about driving meaningful growth and development.
The challenge
The proposed challenge was ‘overcoming barriers to innovation’, and each group addressed a root cause of this challenge including:
- how to improve communication across the project
- how to work more effectively between academia and industry
- how to engage external stakeholders in the project
Professor Simon Mosey explained:
“At the heart of the Ingenuity Online process is the creation of new ideas and the idea that a vastly increased knowledge base – that is, the “collective intelligence” of diverse collaborators – is crucial to the emergence of radical yet practical solutions. As double Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling observed: If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. What you must learn is which ones to throw away.”
“Bringing a multi-disciplinary team of industrial and academic researchers together outside the usual workspace allowed time for creativity in considering strategies to address pertinent real-world problems. The Nottingham University Business School facilitation process has been key to stimulating and capturing the outcomes of our conversations, leaving us with credible action plan options to take forward and make a difference to both our Net Zero Acrylics Prosperity Programme and internal organisation.”
