The Burundi Management Innovation Lab’s Governing Principles include:
Universities and companies with agility and horizontal structures enable increased management innovation.
Universities and companies that listen better to customers and external agents exhibit more management innovation readiness.
Universities and companies that seek teaming arrangements to collaboratively cover research of innovative topics, but also to implement innovative concepts and convert them into products and services, exhibit increased management innovation.
Universities that collaborate with the industry companies can more readily lead the development of a management innovation ecosystem.
When universities and companies offer each other a platform to visit and lecture each other on their management innovation findings, then both the academic and industry participants will have improved sustainability.
… are intended to provide guidance to universities and industry companies/ participants trying to increase their management innovation culture.
If other topics are of interest send a request to BMIL and we can add a new Current Issues webpage to address that issue. Make sure to describe the issue in detail and any path forward recommendations that may resolve the issue.
Visitors and participants are encouraged to increase their academic knowledge through online or in-person educational programs through participant universities and organizations. Credible and accurate research will be the basis for issue mitigation planning within the BMIL. It is important to apply research processes that will stand up to academic and industry scrutiny so the research results will be meaningful. The BMIL is coordinating with participant universities to develop tailored programs to support the needs of developing countries.
The BMIL encourages visitors and participants with knowledge of research to share that knowledge with other participants.
BMIL has coordinated with the Institute of Digital Business Strategy (IDBS) to offer training opportunities in Management Innovation. Co-Founder Dr. Lambert Ciza presents a course on Management Innovation, Co-Founder Dr. Jeffrey Ray presents courses on project management, systems engineering, innovation and organizational learning, Dr. Albert Mubako presents courses on digital transformation, and Dr. George Ray presents courses on data analytics. A Certified Management Innovation Professional (CMIP) certificate program is offered among others.
Visit the IDBS at www.institutedbs.com.
Go to the IDBS website and take the designated four courses at $25 USD a course and receive a Certified Management Innovation Professional (CMIP).
The courses are:
(1) Management Innovation;
(2) Planning and Controlling Digital Projects;
(3) Digital Transformation;
and
(4) Data Analytics.
The BMIL is a collaboration network of researchers and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) with the common goal of improving the life and living conditions of the impoverished in developing countries.
Based on our collaborative framework and common goals, BMIL asks participant SMEs to support each other’s research by agreeing to sit for qualitative research interviews, or respond to quantitative research surveys, so optimal path forward resolution approaches can be identified and pursued.
Under this service, BMIL helps organizations identify their bottlenecks in their effort to build a management innovation culture.
This exercise is an organization-wide process with the intent of setting a ground for designing a clear path towards becoming a champion in management organization.
The service follows the outcome of the MI culture audit and helps develop different pathways for raising the organizational profile on management innovation.