BUSINESS INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY TRAINING

BUSINESS INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY TRAINING OVERVIEW

Business Innovation and Creativity Training empowers learners to develop their creative human potential to improve, enhance, and transform their businesses, communities, and personal lives.

Companies cannot grow revenues in today’s competitive global business environment without the ability to understanding customers and markets trends, achieving market insights is a core competency that must be nurtured, resourced and supported at the highest levels of the organization. This workshop is designed to help you develop ideas and action plans to address your real-world goals, challenges and problems using fresh thinking. Leading organizations invest in business innovation training to create a culture of innovation.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Business Innovation and Creativity Training looks at the drivers for innovation and gives delegates tools and tips to:

Understand the need for an innovation strategy

Changing the working environment to promote innovation and creativity

Using creative thinking to bring real ideas back into work Learning

what innovation is and how it applies to them

Understanding why finance and cost/benefit analysis principles can work along side ‘good’ ideas

Look at how your management processes should encourage and not stifle ideas, and how to best reward ideas How to facilitate ideas and how to make every idea count

Making ideas into reality, how innovation strategies should work and what prevents them from doing so

This is a highly interactive workshop and delegates are encouraged to bring their own ideas for group interaction. It is ideal to help kick-start product or sales strategies, company direction or growth management

Module 1: Creative Identity

The Importance of Failure

Creative Diversity

Establishing and Building Character

Module 2: Idea Generation

Ideation Methods

Idea Journal

Creative Divergence

Module 3: Idea Evaluation

Idea Evaluation Methods

Critical Problem Solving Techniques

Establishing What to do and How to do it

Module 4: Building a Creative Team

Creative Diversity Application

Collaboration Skills

Team Formation in Organizations

Module 5: Inspiration and Research

Receiving advice and feedback

Finding out what others have done

Module 6: Creativity Metrics

8th Muda: Measuring Latent Creativity

Level and Style Metrics

Lag versus Lead Metrics

Module 7: Experiment Planning and Prototyping

Problem Solving Methods

Intelligent Fast Failure and Experimentation

Taking Full Ownership Creative Project

Module 8: CIC Synthesis and Reflection

Module 9:CREATIVITY

What Is Creativity and Innovation?

Creativity and Innovation: A Breakdown
Know Your Creative Potential

Individual Creativity

Know Yourself
Boost Your Creative Juices

Get Creative

Developing the Right Environment for Creativity

What Does a Creative Environment Look Like?
Build Your Creative Environment

Creativity and Innovation in Business

The Role of Creativity and Innovation in Business
The Birth of the Four Seasons: A Case Study

Where Does Creativity Fit Into the Problem-Solving Process?

Problem-Solving Models
Phase One
Phase Two
Phase Three

Defining the Problem

Problem Identification
Eight Essentials to Defining a Problem
Tie It All Together
Using the Power of Eight
Session Nine: Creative Techniques
The RAP Model
The Shoe Swap Technique
Walk A Mile
Using Mind Mapping
Map It Out!
Metaphors and Analogies
Make a Metaphor
Situation/Solution Reversal
Reverse It to Solve It
Bring on the Toys!
Draw It Out!

Encouraging Creativity In A Team

Brainstorming
Plan It Out!
Rolestorming
Act It Out!
The Stepladder Technique
Brainwriting
The Slip Writing Technique

Putting It All Together

Nancy Clue and the Case of the Software Upgrade
Create Ideas and Choose Your Solution
Recommended Reading List
Post-Course Assessment
Pre- and Post-Assessment Answer Keys
Personal Action Plan