Dr Imoh Ilevbare is Principal Specialist in strategic technology and innovation management (STIM) at IfM Engage. He works alongside leaders in the private sector and in government to shape their technology and innovation strategies and enable change, by delivering effective STIM processes based on proven research and industry best practice.

Imoh has worked with several leading technology-focused organisations globally including Ocado, Henkel, BP, Subsea7, HVM Catapult, National Composites Centre (UK), Henry Royce Institute (UK), Airbus and Aramco addressing strategy-related challenges and also providing capability development.

EXPERTISE

His areas of expertise include:

• technology and innovation roadmapping and strategy

• foresight and futures thinking (including scenario planning)

• technology and innovation management system implementation

• creative problem solving

HIGHLIGHTS

Imoh is also Programme Director for the STIM Consortium, a network of multinational companies and researchers sharing best practice and solutions to current and emerging technology and innovation management challenges.

Imoh’s first degree was in Mechanical Engineering, and he subsequently obtained a PhD from Centre for Technology Management at the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

He is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Facilitator, with wide ranging project management and technical facilitation experience. He previously worked in FMCG, energy, and agri-business industries.

PUBLICATIONS

A cross-section of Imoh’s publications and publicly available client reports are outlined below.

Strategic roadmap delivery (publicly available reports)

• Early detection and diagnosis of cancer: A roadmap to the future, Cancer Research UK (2020)

• Materials for the Energy Transition roadmap: Caloric Energy Conversion Materials, Henry Royce Institute (2020)

• UK data metrology and standards roadmap, National Physical Laboratory, UK (2017)

Roadmapping and strategy development and implementation

• A Hierarchical Approach to Technology Roadmapping within an RTO Environment, Peter Osborne, Michèle Routley & Imoh Ilevbare (2021).

• Scenarios and roadmapping-how to navigate an uncertain future, University of Cambridge.
  Ringland, G., Ilevbare, I., Athanassopoulou, N., Greenaway, A. M., & Phaal, R. (2020)

• Towards risk-aware roadmapping – influencing factors and practical measures, Ilevbare I.M., Probert D.R. & Phaal R., (2014)

Other strategic management

• An approach for assessing innovation and technology capabilities in an organisation, Ilevbare, I, Farrukh, C., Saiz, J., Phaal, R., Nunoo N. A. (2018).

• Translating technology management research into practice – System Design Characterisation as an example, Yip M.H., Ilevbare I. M., Phaal R. & Probert D. R. (2016)

• A framework and methodology for developing business tools and processes, Ilevbare I.M., Dusch B. & Templeton P.W. (2016)

• A Strategy Process for Early Stage Ventures to Develop Sustainable Value Opportunities, Bocken N., Athanassopoulou N., Ilevbare I. M., Phaal R., & Rana P., (2015)

• A review of TRIZ, and its benefits and challenges in practice (2016 Highly Cited Research Award), Ilevbare, I. M., Probert, D., & Phaal, R. (2013)