Business case category: Business Quest
Business case
ITA Innova
The Aragon Technologic Institute is specialised in R&D&i promotion but applied to companies. It depends on de Innovation and Industry Department of the Aragon Department. It is one of the most important agents in productivity and competitiveness.
200-500 employees
Sector: Government
Business Quest
Change your career using lean methodologies
Challenges
Four editions and more than eighty fighters are the big numbers behind this programme. A programme that boost employability changing professional careers using lean methodologies.
These were the main challenges:
- Boost employability changing personal and professional career and developing competences in lean methodologies.
- Learn by doing The Hero Plan method and tools among other lean methodologies.
- Design full proposals to challenges proposed by true companies from different sectors.
- Mentor fighters supporting them during the practices.
- Public presentation of the proposals to the managers of the companies.
- Develop a personal action plan for every fighter.
Results
- Competences developed: lean strategy, neuromarketing, innovation, business models, teamwork, change management and public speaking.
- All the teams where able to analyse the problems and needs related to the challenges proposed by companies, applying the new skills and designing proposals to solve those needs.
- The proposals were introduced to companies through some deliverables: action plan, test reports to validate proposals in short term and with a minimum investment.
- Most of the fighters improve their employability finding a new job or creating a new company.