The course starts at the beginning, and teaches a practical, hands-on approach to business innovation explaining clearly, what it is, and how to go about pursuing it within a business enterprise. It also presents a number of key concepts relating to Innovation Management – the work that Innovation Project Leaders and Program Leaders do within the business to help drive and sustain a program of ongoing innovation therein. When finished, participants should walk away knowing exactly how to pursue and drive new innovation within their business, so that the business can produce a large number of new innovation outputs – and so that you can have the fun of defining, developing, and launching those innovations!
- Front Line Staff and Middle Managers in Strategy, Innovation, Marketing, and Research and Development (R&D)
- The Innovation Professional – World Changers of the Business World.
- The Innovation Fundamentals – Getting to know Business Innovation.
- Innovation’s Design Outputs – The Many Forms of “What’s New”
- The Effective Innovator – Einstein, Edison, Jobs, and You
- Creativity, Ideation, & Brainstorming – Tapping Into Innovation’s Source of Life.
- The GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method.
- Getting Innovation Done – Running Innovation’s Source of Life.
- Running the Front End of Innovation
- Running the Mid Zone of Innovation
- Running the Back End of Innovation.
- The Big Dig – The Role of Research in Innovation
- Core Concepts in Research
- Problem / Solution Research
- Forward-Looking Research Methods.
- “Hard” Research
- Developing the Insight Plan
- Design Thinking, Human-Centric Design, & The Role of Design in Innovation.
- The Innovation Manager – Grand Masters of the New
- The Innovation Manager as Project Leader – Driving Focused Innovation
- Leading & Building a Core Innovation Team
- The Innovation Management Process
- Program & Project Management Tools for Innovation Management
- Engagement – The Art of Participatory Innovation
- Designing Innovation Spaces
- The Innovation Manager as Liason – Leveraging Open Innovation
- Storytelling – How to Spark the Imagination & Turn Ships
- Selecting the Winning Ideas – My Innovation is Better Than Your Innovation
- Integration – Putting it All Together