📈Business & Finance
Innovation Manager
Brings new ideas and technology into a business
Looks for new ideas, technologies and products, and helps a company adopt them for growth and competitiveness.
What they do
- ▹Scouts technologies and ideas that can be brought into the company from other industries or countries
- ▹Runs pilot projects and assesses whether they're worth scaling
- ▹Calculates the economic impact of adopting an innovation
- ▹Coordinates product, production and business teams around a new idea
Skills you need
- ▹Strategic thinking
- ▹Creativity
- ▹Understanding of technology and markets
- ▹Project management
- ▹Persuading leadership and colleagues
Focus on these subjects at school
MathematicsComputer science
Where they work
- ▹Innovation/development departments of large companies and banks
- ▹Tech parks and business incubators
- ▹Digitalization projects at government agencies
- ▹Consulting firms
Pros
- + Works at the intersection of business and technology
- + Fast career growth in growing companies
Challenges
- − Not every pilot project makes it to full rollout
- − Constantly has to convince leadership to fund unproven ideas
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