Program Brief

The Financial Sector Development Program enables financial institutions to better support private sector growth, develop more advanced capital markets and improve the retail savings and investment landscape. Promoting and supporting a culture of innovation is obviously a critical milestone in achieving vision 2030 goals. This training programme is designed to equip participants with the necessary skills to lead their teams and organisations in an industry that will see significant disruption over the coming decade.

Program Goals

At the end of the training program, the participant should be able to:

  • Design and Lead Internal Innovation Programs from inception to minimum viable product- MVP.
  • Assess how future-ready his own organization and start thinking about the potential changes that will be required
  • How to successfully identify and prioritize the critical issues that his organization needs to resolve through a series of group exercises.
  • Compare and contrast the impact effectiveness v’s his current institutional approaches through introduce some startup models.
  • develop one solution that could generate exponential benefits.
  • Review how environments, models and mindsets are critical for quality ideation.
  • Use rapid experimentation models to enhance decision making.
  • Build support networks from critical internal and external stakeholders.
  • Explore the different models that successful entrepreneurs use to drive transformational change on their home organizations, through case studies of some of the best sales, consulting, and technology firms in the world.
Program Agenda
Module 1: External Trends and Environmental Scanning
  • 1 Topics:

    • Opening icebreaker

      • Keynote: Exponential Futures

        • Exercise: impact

          • Keynote: Fintech Futures

            • Exercise: A retrospective from 2030 The exercise will expose participants to 2030 vision impact on financial sector. Also, they will assess how future-ready their own organizations and start thinking about the potential changes that will be required

            • 2 Tools:

              • A guide to quality Fintech resources will be made available to all participants

              Module 2: Introduction to Purpose-Driven Problem Solving
              • 1 Topics:

                • Exercise: Internal v’s External ideation models This exercise exposes participants to how different the solutions can be based on the questions and assumptions used

                  • Keynote: The Leadership Attributes of an Intrapreneur

                    • Exercise: Can you describe your teams’ purpose in a tweet Individual exercise which provides a base for participants to develop strategy within their own teams at work

                    • 2 Tools:

                      • Timers, white boards, stickies, and marker perns will need to be available for teams

                      Module 3: How to Develop the Best Internal Ideas
                      • 1 Topics:

                        • Reflections:

                          • Summary of key learnings from day 1

                          • Day 2 agenda

                        • Keynote: How to develop good ideas in a corporate environment This sets the scene for a series of exercises which give participants the tools to run effective ideation sessions

                          • Exercise: Is profit or purpose a better idea generator? A quick individual exercise that demonstrates how purpose-driven strategies can develop visionary ideas

                            • Exercise: Expanding horizons with Google’s Moonshot-In-A-Box This exercise shows participants the power of starting with extreme ideas.At work they will use this technique to develop new ideas that have a 10x bigger impact than what they’d normally.

                              • Exercise: Decision models for idea funnels How do you decide which ideas to investigate? Participants will be presented with a list of ideas and asked to assess which ones to run with, before developing an ideas funnel that they could implement in

                                • Keynote: Idea Factories This keynote explores how the biggest brands manage to encourage and manage ideation funnels throughout their organization. It also reaffirms the approach the teams took in the earlier exercises

                                  • Tools:

                                    • Case study: Working Backwards

                                    • Moonshot Game Cards

                                    • Participants will need also need iPads or Laptops to access the exercise material on Mural

                                    • List of approved public resources will be created for further reading

                                Module 4: Experimentation and Simulations
                                • 1 Topics:

                                  • Exercise: Develop a project testing plan This exercise introduces participants to the benefits of testing ideas, well before MVP. We would expect participants to use this model back in their work environments to accelerate their development cycles

                                    • keynote: The pros and cons of the elevator pitch

                                      • Exercise: Develop and deliver an elevator investor pitch Participants have 15 min (max) to develop a 30 sec elevator pitch. Their peers will provide feedback and help them refine their approach so they can apply it at work

                                        • Keynote: Decision Making in Organizations Why is organizational decision making so slow and how can you accelerate the process?

                                        • 2 Tools:

                                          • Case study: Zappos

                                            • Stickies, markers, whiteboards, and templates

                                              • A set of reference materials will be provided, and specific case studies/ recommended sections will be showcased

                                                • Participants may also need iPads/Laptops with access to Mural, PowerPoint, Canva and other related applications

                                                Module 5: Building Support
                                                • 1 Topics:

                                                  • :Reflections

                                                    • Summary of key learnings from day 2

                                                    • Day 3 agenda

                                                  • ?Keynote: Driving Adoption New tech. New Process. But how do you accelerate adoption?

                                                    • Exercise: Driving Adoption at Scale Great solutions fail in organizations without a well-designed change management program. This exercise will give participants a head starts in their organizations in how to introduce new processes at scale

                                                      • Individual Exercise: Working Backwards Participants will prepare a press release,Cmarketing one of the solutions developed in day 1 or day 2. This approach can be used by participants to gain support for ideas, which they need leadership support

                                                        • Keynote: How Do you build a culture of innovation? This keynote will also introduce Objectives and Key Results as a critical framework to enable firmwide innovation

                                                          • Exercise: Setting Objectives and Key Results Participants will be provided with a short summary of a fictional financial services business. They will be asked to design a set of OKR’s It's expected they will investigate introducing OKR’s in thei

                                                            • Keynote: Program review and wrap up

                                                            • 2 Tools:

                                                              • Case study: Fictional Business Summary

                                                                • OKR laminated printout

                                                                  • Participants will be supplied with stickers, markers, whiteboards, and templates

                                                                    • A set of reference materials will be provided, and specific case studies/ recommended sections will be showcased

                                                                      • Participants may also need iPads/Laptops with access to Mural, PowerPoint, Canva and other related applications

                                                                      Program Requirements

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                                                                      Program Path
                                                                      Program Method
                                                                      • Lecture
                                                                      • Case Studies
                                                                      • Dialogue Teams
                                                                      • Role-play
                                                                      • Exercises and assignments
                                                                      Evaluation Method
                                                                      • Pre Exam
                                                                      • Post Exam
                                                                      Training Type
                                                                      • In Class Training
                                                                      • Online Training

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