David Dunning

David Dunning is the founding director at Chase Management Services and Chair of Corporate Project Solutions. He provides director level advice, guidance and critical friendship in portfolio, programme and project management. He is very interested in aligning innovation and portfolio management, and is currently focusing on developing a core P3M data model with other volunteers to give the public domain the basis for a shareable P3M Governance framework.

Synopsis: Innovation Management Within the Transformation Programme

Innovation – is that a noun, a verb or just a pipe dream? We constantly hear clichés and catch phrases – it’s about culture, right? About being able to give and take something a little bit novel? Of course - it is. One thing for certain – it does not just happen. At one extreme – we could all be sparking ideas so much that we did no business. At the other – we could do none and not change. Whether we have transformation “portfolio” or transformation “programme” – how do we inspire people to be innovative in setting a vision and in finding specific solutions? Should Innovation: Be led/driven/supported by a new function within our business? Be an extension to the programme office? Pop up and disappear with our transformation programme? Or does this become a behaviour that we culturally embed in our business, project and programme teams? What other magic is needed?