Government Innovation Accelerators Training Course

Name: Government Innovation Accelerators and Future Design Training Course
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Frame public challenges, explore innovation portfolios, test evidence, and govern scaling decisions for future public services.

Government Innovation Accelerators Training Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Lagos, Montreux, Cape town, Langkawi, Porto, Nairobi and more
Next session: 8 – 12 November 2026, Lagos
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Government Innovation Accelerators and Future Design Training Course is a one-week intermediate course for public-sector innovation leaders, transformation offices, policy labs, public service design teams, and strategic foresight practitioners who leave with a Government Innovation Accelerator Portfolio. Participants connect challenge framing, systems mapping, horizon scanning, strategic foresight, innovation portfolio exploration, experimentation and learning evidence, accelerator governance, and scaling decisions for future public services. Agile Leaders Training Center develops government innovation accelerator capability.

Who Should Attend

Public-sector innovation teams responsible for challenge portfolios and experimentation
Transformation offices responsible for cross-agency innovation and scaling
Policy labs responsible for exploration, testing, evidence, and learning
Service design teams responsible for user needs and future public services
Strategic foresight teams responsible for signals, scenarios, and anticipatory decisions

The course assumes participants manage public challenges, transformation projects, or policy and service innovation and leaves procurement approvals, legal advice, and organization-specific operating rules outside its scope.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that shape policy, services, transformation, and public innovation.

Central and local public administration
Digital government and public service delivery
Policy, strategy, and transformation offices
Development organizations and public innovation labs
Education, research, and innovation ecosystems

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyze public challenges as systems and define accelerator mandates.
Apply horizon scanning and scenario tools to future service needs.
Build balanced government innovation portfolios.
Design experiments with evidence and decision criteria.
Evaluate learning, risk, and scaling readiness.
Build a governed Government Innovation Accelerator Portfolio.

Course Agenda

Day 1: Frame the Accelerator

Government Innovation Mandate and Boundary Canvas
Public Challenge Framing and Outcome Statement
System Actor and Causal Relationship Map
User Need and Service Friction Evidence Board
Accelerator Governance and Decision-Rights Charter

Day 2: Explore Future Possibilities

Horizon Signal Scanning Log
Driver, Uncertainty, and Trend Analysis Grid
Alternative Future Scenario Set
Future Public Service Opportunity Map
Anticipatory Assumption and Implication Register

Day 3: Shape the Innovation Portfolio

Innovation Portfolio Purpose and Balance Matrix
Solution Mapping and Existing Practice Scan
Idea Selection and Public Value Criteria
Experiment Hypothesis and Learning Question Sheet
Portfolio Risk, Dependency, and Diversity Dashboard

Day 4: Test, Learn, and Scale

Safe-to-Test Experiment Design Canvas
Evidence Threshold and Decision Gate Matrix
Experiment Learning Review Record
Scaling, Transfer, Adaptation, or Stop Pathway
Accelerator Performance and Learning Dashboard

Day 5: Practice Innovation Acceleration

Suggested Exercise: Reframe a Public Challenge
Suggested Exercise: Build a Future Scenario
Suggested Exercise: Balance an Innovation Portfolio
Suggested Exercise: Review Experiment Evidence
Capstone Exercise: Complete a Government Innovation Accelerator Portfolio

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities based on anonymized public administration, service delivery, education, and development cases.

Suggested activity: map a public challenge, system actors, causal relationships, user needs, and service friction.
Suggested activity: scan signals and create alternative scenarios, implications, and future service opportunities.
Suggested activity: construct an innovation portfolio with selection criteria, experiments, risks, dependencies, and learning questions.
Suggested activity: present a portfolio with evidence thresholds, decision gates, scaling paths, and governance responsibilities.

FAQs

Who suits government innovation accelerator training, and what does it assume?

Government innovation accelerator training suits public-sector teams responsible for policy, services, transformation, experimentation, or foresight. It assumes participants already manage public challenges or innovation activity.

How does government innovation acceleration differ from general innovation management training?

Government innovation acceleration connects public value, systems, foresight, experimentation, portfolio choices, governance, and scaling decisions. General innovation management training often addresses broader organizational innovation processes without the same public-service context.

What is a government innovation portfolio?

A government innovation portfolio is a managed set of initiatives, experiments, and scaling choices balanced across challenges, time horizons, uncertainty, public value, risk, and learning needs.

How do government innovation accelerators use experiments?

Government innovation accelerators use safe-to-test experiments to examine assumptions, gather evidence, compare options, and decide whether an initiative should adapt, transfer, scale, or stop.

When should a government innovation initiative scale or stop?

A government innovation initiative should scale when evidence, public value, operational readiness, risk, and governance criteria meet agreed thresholds. It should adapt or stop when learning does not support continuation.

Conclusion

Participants take back a Government Innovation Accelerator Portfolio. It combines challenge and system maps, future scenarios, portfolio choices, experiment plans, evidence thresholds, learning records, governance rules, and scaling pathways. The portfolio helps teams coordinate exploration, compare evidence, govern decisions, and shape future public services under changing conditions.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Lagos	Week 45, 2026 8 – 12 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Montreux	Week 46, 2026 9 – 13 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€7,500
Cape town	Week 46, 2026 15 – 19 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Langkawi	Week 47, 2026 22 – 26 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Porto	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Nairobi	Week 48, 2026 29 November – 3 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Sharm El-Sheikh	Week 49, 2026 30 November – 4 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
London	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Madrid	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Milan	Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Muscat	Week 51, 2026 20 – 24 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Abu Dhabi	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Amsterdam	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Bali	Week 53, 2027 3 – 7 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Toronto	Week 01, 2027 10 – 14 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Barcelona	Week 02, 2027 11 – 15 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Amman	Week 02, 2027 17 – 21 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Abu Dhabi	Week 03, 2027 18 – 22 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
London	Week 04, 2027 25 – 29 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Bangkok	Week 04, 2027 31 January – 4 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewGovernment Innovation Accelerators and Future Design Training Course is a one-week intermediate course for public-sector innovation leaders, transformation offices, policy labs, public service design teams, and strategic foresight practitioners who leave with a Government Innovation Accelerator Portfolio. Participants connect challenge framing, sy…

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Government Innovation Accelerators Training Course