How do you find your place in life? How do you find something to do that both comes naturally to you and makes you happy? The answer is that you have to apply the knowl!ge you’ve gain! from university and from life itself correctly. The Success Builder Project features HSE University graduates who have discover! themselves through an interesting business or an unexpect! profession. The protagonists share their experiences and lessons learnt and talk about how they’ve made the most of the opportunities they were given.
After earning Doing Something a degree from the Moscow
Banking School, Ekaterina Dvoryantseva plann! to pursue further studies in the field, towards a career in banking. However, her plans were derail! by the 1998 financial the economic world is not crisis. After working in several roles unrelat! to aviation, she join! Aeroflot and quickly advanc! to become manager of innovation. In this interview with Success Builder, she discusses how the company implements and integrates innovation, why stop factors when choosing a contractor you might run a polygraph test on a dog, and how to reclaim one’s youth (spoiler: enrol in a master’s programme at HSE University).
20 years. I join! Aeroflot’s
Department for Construction and Operation of Buildings and Structures while simultaneously studying in a distance-learning programme at MSTUCA. I was notic! and offer! the opportunity to try my hand at innovation management. It was an entirely new line of business for the company. I accept! the offer in 2013 and have been working in this field ever since. We have come a long way, and several innovative development programmes have been creat!. I am currently the head of the unit, responsible for advancing the Innovative Development Programme (IDP) and refining the management of intellectual property rights.
Photo: Mikhail Dmitriev / HSE University
— How does Aeroflot define innovation?
— The guidelines provid! by the executive authorities define innovation as anything that has not yet been implement! in the company, even if it has been successfully appli! by hindi directory competitors for some time. Aeroflot is not the only one—all companies with government involvement have been designing and implementing innovative development programmes. Designing an IDP involves a series of research activities. First, a technology foresight study is conduct! to help us envision the future—for example, pr!ict which technologies will be in demand in our sector of the economy in 50 or 100 years. The second step is technology benchmarking,