Course description

This course delivers comprehensive training on ISO 56001:2024, the newly published international standard that sets requirements for establishing and maintaining an Innovation Management System (IMS). As the certifiable foundation of the ISO 56000 innovation family, ISO 56001 helps organizations create structured, systematic, and repeatable innovation practices that align with strategic goals. It supports businesses in enhancing competitiveness, adaptability, and value creation through innovation governance, process integration, and stakeholder collaboration.

What You’ll Learn

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Understand the scope, structure, and terminology of ISO 56001.

• Establish a governance framework for innovation aligned with ISO management system standards.

• Design and implement innovation processes covering idea generation to realization.

• Embed an innovation policy, objectives, KPIs, and risk/opportunity planning.

• Promote an organizational culture that supports creativity, openness, and agility.

• Identify and manage innovation-related risks and intellectual property (IP).

• Align innovation strategy with customer needs, emerging trends, and technologies.

• Integrate innovation into existing QMS, EMS, or strategic business systems.

• Monitor, audit, and improve innovation capabilities and performance.

• Prepare for ISO 56001 certification or self-assessment readiness.

Who Should Attend

• Innovation Managers and R&D Leaders

• Strategy and Business Development Executives

• Quality, Risk, and Transformation Officers

• Design Thinking and Product Management Teams

• Consultants in innovation, creativity, or digital transformation

• Executives in manufacturing, tech, public sector, and services

Recommendations

• No prior ISO 56001 experience required

• Familiarity with innovation processes or ISO 9001 helpful

• Ideal for organizations seeking to formalize or scale innovation capabilities

Skills

• ISO 56001 clause interpretation and implementation

• Innovation policy and performance management

• Strategic foresight and stakeholder alignment

• Innovation process design and portfolio management

• Cultural enablers for creativity and ideation

• IP, knowledge, and technology management

• Risk-based thinking in innovation environments

• Integration with ISO 9001, ISO 56002, and digital strategies

• Continuous improvement in innovation ecosystems