Membership for Individuals

Formal CPD can be any form of structured learning that has clear learning objectives and outcomes, such as a professional course, structured online training, technical authorship, learning that includes an assessment measure or self-managed learning that can be assessed by an expert third party.

Informal CPD is any self-managed learning that is relevant or related to your professional role. This could include activities such as private study, on-the-job training, attendance at informal seminars or events where the focus is on knowledge sharing.

Candidates applying for the grade of Membership must show evidence of applying innovation tools and methods to demonstrate their innovation achievements, specific personal contributions and impact on others covering the following 20 points criteria (a minimum of 12 points must be addressed through accessible evidence):

Abilities Criteria for Applying Candidates for the IKE Full Membership Grade:

1. The ability to apply a systematic innovation process and frame innovation challenges
2. The ability to identify disruption vectors that may affect the business
3. The ability to apply design thinking techniques to identify new solutions
4. The ability to identify innovation opportunities within the business ecosystem
5. The ability to create scenarios that help to generate the right combination of exploitable ideas
6. The ability mentor, coach and develop others within and outside of the business
7. The ability to develop effective innovation governance (e.g. phase or stage gating processes)
8. The ability align innovation activities to the business strategy objectives
9. The ability design new value propositions that leverage data analytics
10. The ability to identify and leverage actionable intelligence to develop and shape value propositions
11. The ability to experiment and develop a minimum viable offer
12. The ability to apply appropriate tools and techniques to build business cases for innovation projects
13. The ability to enhance innovative value propositions (e.g. applying blue ocean strategies)
14. The ability to accelerate experimentation using lean and agile methods
15. The ability to use trend spotting in identifying critical new and emerging technologies
16. The ability to cluster and develop technology and business roadmaps
17. The ability to prepare for Digital Transformation and enhance innovation maturity and velocity
18. The ability to protect and leverage Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
19. The ability to measure and benchmark innovation progress, impact and value
20. The ability to align with international innovation standards and recommended best practice.

Typical evidence could include, amongst others, examples of outputs and outcomes (e.g. books, book chapters, journal and conference papers, patents granted, invitations as conference chair, delivery of keynotes, externally awarded research grants and funding as principal investigator, supervision of researchers and innovation teams, scholarly activities (e.g. visiting professorships, doctoral examinations, external examinerships, etc.), reference to publicly available communication collateral could be used.

Successful completion of the IKE Institute’s Certified Innovation Practitioner programme offers an accelerated admission route to the Membership grade. Additional evidence may be required by the Professional Standards Committee.

The Innovation Council reserves the right to make changes to this list from time to time.

© IKE Institute Professional Standards Committee - updated Dec 2021.

Candidates applying for the grade of Fellowship must show evidence of their senior responsibility, specific personal contributions, achievements and associated impact covering the following 20 points (a minimum of 12 points must be addressed through accessible evidence):

Criteria for Applying Candidates for the IKE Full Fellowship Grade:

1. The characteristics of a Responsible Leader
2. Building and sustaining a culture of innovation that embraces a growth mindset
3. Developing innovation interventions to increase the business resilience and adaptive capacity
4. Applying and enabling experimental thinking to profile risk in developing innovation strategies
5. Leading, building and/or influencing the business’ ecosystem
6. Scenario planning and developing new business and operating models
7. Influencing the type and status of corporate or functional standards, policies and procedures
8. Improving the level of innovation maturity and velocity
9. Establishing innovation processes to enable systematic creative problem solving capabilities
10. Developing or managing  innovation-horizons and portfolio investment profiles for the business
11. Assembling the building the foundational blocks for effective digital transformation
12. Deploying digital extensions and evolving own digital leadership competencies
13. Establishing the business’ innovation principles (e.g. Innovation policy or manifesto)
14. Developing and supporting the business core innovation competencies and skills base including one’s own professional development and scholarly activities (e.g. books, chapters, journal and conference papers, patents granted, invitations as conference chair, delivery of keynotes, externally awarded research grants and funding as principal investigator, supervision of researchers and innovation teams, scholarly activities (e.g. visiting professorships, doctoral examinations, external examinerships, etc.)
15. Building emerging technologies trend spotting programmes
16. Creating Innovation Governance policies and structures and communicating them
17. Aligning  and cohering innovation activities to the organisation’s core values and vision
18. Leveraging or deploying benchmarking in accordance with international standards
19. Coaching, mentoring and motivating people and/or groups for effective innovation development to build and strengthen their innovation and creativity potential
20. Determining the impact of innovation investments' on the business including exploitation, utilisation, and the development of products, services, processes and people.

Examples of evidence demonstrating the individual’s own outputs and outcomes and any publicly referenced sources should be listed.

Candidates who have successfully completed of the IKE Institute’s Certified Innovation and Strategy for Leaders programme will be offered an accelerated route to admission to the Fellowship grade. Additional evidence may be required by the Professional Standards Committee.

The Innovation Council reserves the right to review and make changes to this list from time to time.

© IKE Institute Professional Standards Committee- updated Dec 2021.