As innovation is crucially important for business growth, it is essential to establish Innovation Management as a core competency. During this course, delivered by Kevin McFarthing, Innovation Fixer Ltd and Steve Osborn, Leatherhead Food Research, you will learn the key principles and best practices. These include strategic and consumer alignment, idea generation and management, product development, validation and launch, project management and key innovation metrics.The course is designed for managers mainly in Product Development, Marketing, and supply chain professionals who are responsible for the introduction of new products and processes, but will be relevant to people in other functions who play a key role in innovation management. It will build on existing industry experience and enable managers to innovate more successfully, so should be most suitable for those with a few years' experience of working on innovation projects.Innovation Management - Key Principles and Best Practice was first run in May 2011 with positive feedback from delegates. One delegate (Own Brand Manager, 3663) commented "As a business we do some of the content but this course pulled it all together. I feel motivated to get back and get going." Another delegate valued the "extra discussions" that took place after each topic.