Innovation Management
This session builds your innovation skills and capabilities, with a proven set of tools currently deployed in many of the world's largest organizations. You will explore innovative capacity - fast becoming one of the core competencies for survival in today's global economy. This session also includes a self-assessment tool, designed to determine and rank each participant's personal style to innovation. Several hands-on exercises will demonstrate innovation methodologies and best practices.
Session Highlights
- Introduction
- Defining Innovation
- Innovation vs. Problem Solving
- Why Brainstorming is Not Enough
- The Importance of Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace
- Metrics and Business Drivers
- Assessing Your Innovation Skills and Approaches
- Personal Creativity Lessons
- Self Assessment - The VIEW Assessment
- Building the Effective Innovation Team
- Building a Balanced Innovation Team
- Business Lessons
- The Value of Failure
- CPS - A Process that Needs to be Understood
- The Role of Corporate Culture
- Time Recognition
- Effective Tools and Approaches
- Four Guidelines to Focusing Options
- Influences on Behavior and Problem Solving
- Thinking Tools
- Attribute Listing
- Morphological Matrix
- Force-fitting
- SCAMPER
- Hits and Hot Spots
- ALoU
- Paired Comparison Analysis
- SML
- Evaluation Matrix