Innovation Management Academy Albania (IMAA) is passionate about solving companies’ biggest challenges, through meaningful innovation. IMAA believes that by managing innovation, you’re managing the future of your company.
IMAA – Innovation Management Academy Albania, powered by EU for Innovation as an activity since May 2020, has successfully implemented the 5th edition tailored for Corporates intrapreneurs in the hybrid format from May 9-12th, 2022 at Protik ICT Center, in Tirana.
IMAA 5 has been carefully planned and tailor-made to fit the needs of the NOA SHA team who were part of the innovation journey and ecosystem in Albania, thus helping them build their innovation capabilities within. The right mindset combined with the proper set of tools will help your company embrace and manage innovation.
“Becoming an intrapreneur is more than training in tools, methodologies or gathering common values; it implies a mindset shift, full commitment and leveraging a fertile ecosystem”
- Fabiola Duro, Executive Director of IMAA
We truly believe that the key to a successful company lies in its willingness to adapt to a demanding and competitive market, develop its resilience, and inspire its employees to create value for their customers.
IMAA curricula and workshops are focused on innovation, digital transformation, competitiveness, green elements, operational excellence, growth strategies, design thinking, agile, leadership coaching, and integration by bringing into light concrete impacts, scale-up capacities, and know-how by training and mentoring them by industry professionals.
IMAA is a unique educational format that incorporates lectures, training, and workshops to build your organization’s capability to manage innovation. It's boot-camp has successfully been provided to all the NOA Sh.A team the opportunity to learn why they should innovate, what they could innovate, and then how to do that, from some of the best regional and international experts in that field.
“Innovation Management Academy Albania it’s a series of hands-on workshops, demonstrating that cooperates have booth the talent and the assets to identify new opportunities and reinvent their business models more quickly than anyone else”
– Afonso Rebelo De Sousa
IMAA is well known in the local innovation ecosystem especially when it comes to securing human assets and building a portfolio of experts. They would in time help bring the overarching goal of empowering know-how and scale-up capacities into the Albanian market to fruition.
“I am a firm believer that each human being is extremely powerful, unique, and totally capable of any achievement! I look forward to accompanying the NOA team to the most transformative and meaningful journey of their lives” – Mireda Thana, Founder of Mireda Coaching
Also, IMAA’s second pillar is to make the Albanian Market aware of the first unique platform in providing better access to new job opportunities in the ICT sector and innovative products/ services (intermediations process) though providing;
- A talent acquisition matchmaking process (focusing on how a company intends to position itself as an attractive destination and how it plans to source, assess, employ, and bring on board the young generations to respond to the market employment needs in Albania in the ICT sector;
- Providing soft skills training to fulfill the students' & ICT Companies' gaps and challenges in 12 soft skills modules
“The biggest part of our digital transformation is changing the way we think”
– Gjergji Guri, CEO of Facilization
IMAAs’ program is very important in order to survive and thrive, especially in times of great crisis like the one we all witnessed this year, companies cannot remain impartial to the change, but rather embrace it and initiate it. That is why this program will be carefully planned and tailor-made to fit the needs of corporates who are part of the innovation ecosystem in Albania, thus helping them build their innovation capabilities within.
Too often, innovation is treated as a shiny plaything rather than a tool for addressing our biggest challenges, both from a societal and a business point of view. We team up with clients to tackle their biggest strategic imperatives through meaningful innovation – relentlessly focused on impact.
That brings us to the concept of intrapreneurship. The best way to become more innovative is by creating a more entrepreneurial culture. When an organization does this, it is referred to as intrapreneurship. Intrapreneurship is simply entrepreneurship in an existing organization.
“Motivated team combined with the culture of innovation ensures sustainable growth and an e exciting future outlook”
– Andrija Zvicer
In many ways, intrapreneurship is easier for an individual than entrepreneurship because it has the support of an existing organization. However, there are both facilitators and barriers to intrapreneurship. Together, IMAA and NOA Sh.A Team learned, developed, and experienced an innovation journey in 4 days on how to create an innovative organizational culture that advances intrapreneurship.
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