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Our core innovation course for businesses everywhere looking to learn the process of innovation!
Participants learn how to create and implement a process of innovation to turn ideas into implementable innovation.
The Innovation Course™ is taught in a concept, applied case study style, and participants find it hands-on and practical. The Innovation Course™ teaches methods of mapping innovation, and practical tools for achieving innovation now for your demanding business stakeholders.
The course uses a unique case study method updated from that long used by Harvard Business school. Because it’s based on applied knowledge, and learning by example, the style is comfortable for managers, knowledge workers and executives. First and foremost it’s practical, outcomes-based and not academic or lecturing. You can apply what you learn right away.
Training is about the recipient learning new ways of thinking, adding value to their own career with new insights and analytical thinking techniques, as used in other organizations like Google, Apple and more. Insight is expected in a Google generation where any fact is questionable in real time, so any trainings needs to delight, enlighten and focus on action to ensure attention and so the training focuses on giving the participants the tools to add value in this world. Moving beyond basic change to enterprise innovation in a Google world, of constant change and ‘always on’ and professional opportunity for new skills in innovation implementation and communication.
Case studies from successful corporations and business projects are used in each course.
You will learn to create and implement innovation effectively.
Learning Outcomes
In this standard course, participants learn:
· Types of innovation
· Innovation Economy latest updates (Optional for Executives)
· Business model innovation
· Internal Model of innovation for reporting ‘up’ and ‘out’
· Service innovation
· Innovation as a process
· How to generate & sourcing Ideas
· How to think creatively, and experiment
· Assessing idea feasibility
· How to design innovation concepts
· Implementing innovation process checklist
· Risk matrix for innovation for managers
· Innovation metrics overview
· Communicating innovation
· External contests and awards for corporate innovation
At the end of this course, the participants will be able to explain, discuss and model innovation; and locate the criteria by which to increase the success rate of innovation in your company, industry and location(s).
Course Outline: Core Lessons
These are delivered as a number of modules per session. The session order can be varied.
DAY 1 : INTRODUCTION: IDEAS TO INNOVATION
1. What is innovation and why it matters.
How to define innovation to ensure the satisfaction of colleagues, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders through the process.
2. Types of Innovation
The base of types of innovation in a business: from process, to model, design, service and others.
3. A Model of Innovation
A model of innovation anyone can learn – and most importantly, implement in practice.
4. Profiting from Change Trends
See the world as a series of trends, and measure which change trends represent economic and planning opportunities for businesses.
5. Insight as Creative Ideas
Developing insight as ideas and evaluating them for implementation. Making creativity work in practise, and some fun stuff about how ideas can work in your organization or team.
DAY 2 : IMPLEMENTATION: DOING INNOVATION
6. Analytical Thinking
Why analytical thinking and numbers matter, and how to pick change in an organization’s numbers (i.e. trends)
7. Planning Innovation Bottom Up vs Top Down Thinking
How to plan for innovation, from the bottom up and from the top down, and ensure that innovation is practical and can be implemented. Motto: no idea is an innovation unless implemented!
8. Designing the Innovation Process
Innovation is a process that can be designed. In this module we teach the design of innovation, and what to look for when designing for teams and organizations. We also give you some tools.
9. Smart Metric Design
Design of smart metrics and new Key Performance Indicators to measure innovation in the organization and beyond.
10. Thinking about change
How the different thinking styles of different people in a company mean to innovation. Can thinking with different hats (like DeBono) really help? Or do we need only to state our assumptions and use a simpler model of making quick wins and innovation champions?
DAY 3 : TALKING INNOVATION: COMMUNICATING THE CHANGE
11. Numbers vs Insights – Communicating
How do numbers communicate information, and what types of numbers and charts do we use to communicate in new ways? Can we use new numbers/
12. Communicating Ideas
1-2 structures for the successful communication of ideas in a team and corporate environment where people want to get a grasp and see results quickly. The same frameworks used by consulting firms like McKinsey, etc.
13. Negative and Positives – New Thinking, Logic Thinking
Is a ‘good’ number a negative or a ‘positive’ – how to be prepared for an argument based on the negative side of change, and the positive side. How to argue for innovation with difficult people.
14. Outcome of Analysis: Action
Can communication create change? How do we talk the language of innovation, whilst keeping all participants engaged in the innovation. (short session)
15. APPLY: Workshop of Case Studies
Working on real case studies inside the organization and beta-projects. A mini-consultation on the potential innovation projects that have arisen during the course, and may be actioned in the organization. It’s where the action happens, and ideas that have been percolating now form actions in the organization. (long session and can be extended)
Booking
You can book and confirm your course for your preferred dates online, enquire or request an invoice.
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