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Workshop: Value-Driven Innovation for Executives

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April 9, 2026
Workshop: Value-Driven Innovation for Executives

With the growing availability of data and AI, the pressure to make use of it is increasing—especially in the public sector. Organizations face major societal challenges, including healthcare, housing, and climate. At the same time, they deal with labor shortages, shrinking budgets, and high expectations from citizens and businesses.

This forces organizations to do more with less: to work faster, more efficiently, and—where possible—more cost-effectively. Data and AI can play a key role in this.

Plan your in-company workshop Value-Driven Innovation for Executives and gain the following insights:

  • Place innovation in a broader perspective
  • Discover the impact of AI on organizational values
  • Define minimum requirements for AI
  • Experience the importance of asking the right questions at the right time

The workshop lasts half a day and is built around a concrete case—either fictional or based on real-life situations (for example, from your own organization). It is conducted in a World Café setting.

Schedule the workshop now via the form at the bottom of the page.

Leading in times of AI

As an executive, you are responsible for setting the right course. The use of data and AI is never an end in itself. Even an application that works technically, is legally compliant, and significantly improves efficiency can still be undesirable—for example, if transparency is lacking or reliability is not sufficiently proven.

How do you deal with this, especially when the pressure to “do something with AI” is high? How do you ensure you make the right decisions?

The key lies in asking the right questions at the right time. For example:

  • What problem are we trying to solve, and is AI the right solution?
  • Is the required data available and of sufficient quality?
  • What legal requirements must our application meet?
  • What does the use of AI mean for our employees? And for our customers?

Which questions matter most depends on legal frameworks such as the GDPR and the AI Act, as well as the core values of the organization. It is therefore essential to make these frameworks explicit and assess proposed innovations against them in advance.

And when necessary, to decide not to proceed—or to adapt the project.

In the Value-Driven Innovation for Executives workshop, you will learn how to approach this.

What does the workshop look like?

The workshop lasts half a day and is built around a concrete case. This can be fictional or based on a real-life situation—such as one from your own organization.

Participants work in a World Café setting, where they rotate between tables each round and build on previous discussions. Each table focuses on a specific value relevant to the case, while each round represents a different phase of a project.

The goal of the workshop is to formulate key questions for each value, ensuring that executives have a clear view of the most important risks at every stage of a project.

Dorus-Jan ten Boom
Dorus-Jan ten Boom

Management Consultant Digital Law & Ethics

Is an experienced Management Consultant in the field of Digital Law & Ethics, specialized in translating legal and ethical frameworks into their practical application. He…
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Previous participants especially highlighted the interaction with other participants as particularly valuable. One of them described it as follows: “The format ensures that you are continuously in dialogue with other participants. When is good, good enough? It forces you to articulate your thoughts as clearly as possible while remaining open to different perspectives. This has undoubtedly enriched my own viewpoint.”

What does it deliver?

The most tangible outcome is the concrete output of the workshop: an overview of key control questions that, according to the group, should be asked in each phase of a project.

Below is an example. The case in question involved a fictional youth care organization aiming to use AI to create client profiles.

Perhaps even more important than the tangible outcomes of the workshop are the insights you take away:

  • You are able to place innovation in a broader perspective
  • You gain insight into the impact of AI on organizational values
  • You learn the minimum conditions AI applications should meet
  • You experience the importance of asking the right question at the right time

The Value-Driven Innovation workshop is offered as an in-company training.
Would you like to learn more? Please get in touch with us via the form below.

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Is an experienced Management Consultant in the field of Digital Law & Ethics, specialized in translating legal and ethical frameworks into their practical application. He does this by looking not only at what is legally required, but also at what is desirable, and then searches for the most appropriate solution within this context. In addition to “hard” compliance, this increasingly involves dealing with ethical risks. Among Dorus-Jan’s clients are organizations from the government, healthcare and financial sector, often in the context of digitalization and ICT. As an ICT legal expert, Dorus-Jan is very well versed in the applicable data, privacy and information security legislation. In addition, he understands the art of making (seemingly) complex regulations understandable for discussion partners with a different background. Dorus-Jan has worked as a Consultant since 2008 and since 2016 for VKA (now Highberg).

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