The Knowledge Series 2025

June 25th, 2025
10 AM EST | 3 PM GMT | 4 PM CEST

 
Winning Over Top Management: How to Secure Support for Your Innovation Initiatives

Imagine confidently pushing forward with your boldest ideas, knowing that top management fully backs you every step of the way. Too often, a disconnect between innovation teams and executives leaves great ideas stranded. In this session, Colin Nelson will uncover the historical roots of this gap and reveal how standardized innovation management practices can bridge it. Learn how to build a common language with proven frameworks, foster trust, and secure lasting executive support for both small experiments and large-scale projects.

Join us to transform uncertainty into confidence and ensure your innovative ideas are championed at the highest levels.

 

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What You’ll Learn:

  • Understanding the Divide: Explore why innovation leaders and top executives often speak different languages.
  • Creating a Common Language: Learn how standardization can build trust and align priorities.
  • Actionable Strategies: Discover practical steps to win executive buy-in and drive sustainable innovation.
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This session is designed for corporate innovation leaders, R&D professionals, and executives eager to elevate their innovation journey and capture new growth opportunities.

Register now to access exclusive insights and take a data-driven approach to transforming your innovation strategy.

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Colin Nelson, Chief Innovation Consultant at HYPE 

Colin Nelson is a seasoned innovation strategist with over 20 years of experience helping complex organizations establish, embed, and leverage collaborative innovation processes. Specializing in harnessing the collective intelligence of workforces, third parties, and customers, Colin enables organizations to engage large groups, tapping into their collective insights to deliver tangible business value.

 

Understanding the challenges of demonstrating innovation success, Colin guides his clients in defining meaningful metrics that resonate with executive leadership. He assists organizations in engaging disparate groups to support existing or newly established programs in Continuous Improvement, Innovation, Business Transformation, and Business Improvement. By aligning innovation initiatives with internationally recognized frameworks like the ISO 56000 standards, Colin ensures that measurement practices not only track progress but also communicate the true value of innovation efforts to stakeholders.

 

Previously, Colin built and led the European arm of Imaginatik, a market-leading collective intelligence company. There, he pioneered approaches in crowdsourcing and collaborative innovation, helping organizations implement processes that drive business transformation and continuous improvement.

Specialties: Innovation Measurement, Collaborative Processes, Innovation Management Systems, ISO 56000 Standards, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence, Business Transformation, Knowledge Management, Strategic Alignment of Innovation Initiatives.