ABSTRACT
The University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG) offers postgraduate training in 28 different medical specialties, with the programmes organised on the basis of speciality. The specialities function as independent institutions and each individual specialty is therefore engaged in developing its own training programme. The chapter presents the role of the UMCG Organisation and Development staff group staff group, which can play an important role in UMCG's pursuit of sustainable innovation, and describes the three subprojects finally executed in the Netherlands Initiative for Sustainable Development (NIDO)/UMCG project. In concrete terms, the NIDO/UMCG project has resulted in three instruments: an innovation scenario, a stakeholder identification instrument and an instrument for testing the organisational attainability of educational innovations. The educational innovation projects at the UMCG differ from 'standard' product innovation projects in the corporate world in a number of ways. The programme director of the medical speciality concerned leads the UMCG projects.
