Value Innovation in Human Resources

Is your human resources agenda aligned with your overall corporate strategy? Are your HR structures ready for the challenges of today… and tomorrow? If the answer to these questions is NO or you don’t know them, it’s time to ‘health check’ your HR function.

To help you perform the HR health-check and by popular demand from members, CEDEP has created an innovative two-day programme using the principles of Blue Ocean Strategy and Value Innovation.

‘Blue Ocean Strategy’ with its techniques for ‘Value Innovation’ is one of the most influential and effective business concepts of all time. Based on rigorous research, it shows how companies can leave the ‘red oceans’ of competition behind by creating entirely new market spaces or ‘blue oceans’ of their own.

Using expert faculty and practitioners, the programme also enables participants to network and learn from their peers.

	The basics of Value Innovation – and how to make it work for you
	The tools of The tools of Value Innovation – tried and tested techniques for you to apply
	Identifying the main challenges and where to start
	One detailed case study and many informative examples of real-life situations
	Reviewing your HR function’s capabilities and limitations
	Preparation for implementing what you have learned on your return to work.

Participant Benefits:

	A new framework for thinking about your job
	Objective evaluation of your current strategy and performance
	Tools and techniques to improve your performance
	Greater understanding of how to communicate your agenda more clearly

Company Benefits:

	An objective evaluation of how your current HR function meets your needs
	A regenerated HR agenda which is genuinely aligned with the overall business strategy
	New tools and techniques to improve performance in HR and beyond
	A clear articulation of the HR strategy for the entire company
	A stronger and more motivated HR team

Peter HESSEY
STRATEGY REGENERATION

Peter is an experienced HR & Communications executive who has had leading roles in some of the biggest mergers and acquisitions in UK financial services over the past 10 years, including Lloyds/TSB, General Accident/Commercial Union and CGU/Norwich Union. He has had the role of HR Director in several blue chip companies and led many major change, integration and rationalisation programmes.

Jens MEYER
INSEAD

Jens Meyer's teaching and development focuses on innovation and change. His approach is to explore industrial or managerial beliefs, reveal dysfunctional aspects and proposes means and measures to overcome them.

He is Adjunct Professor at INSEAD, and holds appointments at other academic institutions such as the University of Applied Science of Worms (Fachhochschule Worms) and CEDEP (European Centre for Continuing Education).

Jens graduated with an MBA in Innovation, Strategy and Information Technology in 1992 from the French Business School Theseus at Sophia Antipolis. He then went to INSEAD, Fontainebleau, where he co-founded the Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies.

He has developed and taught courses on a variety of subjects including: Cyber-Entrepreneurship (Entrepreneurial Innovation in the context of Business Start-ups), Business Intelligence, Fair Process & Change Management, Blue Ocean Strategy & Value Innovation. He has lectured and presented in executive programs and gatherings throughout Europe and the US for more than 50 groups and clients over the last 10 years.

Jens is a cofounder of Strategy Regeneration Ltd. – a company based in Dublin, Ireland which designs and delivers project coaching and facilitation to a broad range of businesses and functions; the Strategy Regeneration offer has been in the market for over two years.

Value Innovation In Human Resources

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