Innovation
Day 1
Introduction to Creativity and Innovation
What is Creativity and Innovation?
Why do we need it?
The Psychology of Creativity
How to Spot Opportunities and Enhance Personal Creativity
Key Human Needs and Emerging Global Trends
What is an Innovation Centre of Excellence
The Framework towards Establishing an Innovation Centre of Excellence
Creative and Innovative Workplace Survey
“Contemplate if 1 percent of the ideas, improvements, and solutions in the minds of our workers were acknowledged, tapped into, and implemented. Our world would change in incredible ways, and Ireland (any nation) would gain a great economic advantage.”
We offer the following Innovation Services:
On-site Implementation Workshop: Everyday Lean Using the Power of Employee Driven Innovation
This is an extremely powerful system that taps into employees latent talents and creativity. Everyday people on the frontlines see problems and opportunities that management are completely unaware of. Oftentimes however employees do not have an outlet or mechanism to surface their ideas and the results are that daily annoyance factors and waste go unchecked or worked around and indeed escalate. Empowering employees to surface and coordinate the implementation of these ideas results in real time learning and enhanced employee engagement. This win-win approach also delivers real bottom line cost savings to the organisation with common benefits in the region €2500 per employee per year.
Creativity and Innovation 5 Day Maser Class
Two day workshop where we teach your employees Creativity and Innovation techniques that enable them to come with revenue enhancement ideas for products and services.
Objectives:
Learn a comprehensive in-depth approach to Creativity & Innovation.
Learn the appropriate Creativity Tools
Learn how to develop your Idea to Market Roadmap
Learn Practices to Establish a Creative Culture
Learn how to Maximize the Return on Innovation
Course Outline:
The highly participative workshop gives an overview of creativity and innovation allows people to develop their own creative skills by practising the tools in a live workshop.
Day 2
Creativity Tools
Overview of the 12 most commonly used creativity tools and practical worked examples
Tool # 1: Bug Listing & Idea Logbook
Tool #2: Random Word
Tool #3: Finding New Applications
Tool # 4: Challenging Assumptions
Tool #5: What-If?
Tool #6: Attribute Listing and SCAMPER
Tool # 7: Morphological Analysis
Tool #8: Action Words
Tool #9: Reversal
Tool # 10: Analogy or Metaphor
Tool #11: Random Objects
Tool # 12: Relational Words
Practical Workshop using the various Tools above in Groups
Day 3
Idea to Market Roadmap
Bring to Market Roadmap Overview: From Idea to Commercialisation covering Prototyping, Patents, Trademarks, Licensing, Manufacturing, Marketing, Distribution, etc
Working with Ideas generated from Day 2
Develop Bring to Market mock-up Roadmap in various groups
Day 4
Practices to Establish a Creative Culture
Align with Business Needs
Performa Baseline Measure
Make Innovation a Process
Resourcesand The Physical Work Environment
Measurethe Process
Spreadthe Word
Loosen Controls
Endorse Fun
Appreciatethe Long Term Perspective
Communicate
Total Involvement
Embrace Learning
Generate Ideas
Enrich People’s Jobs
Nurture Innovation Activity
Test & Experiment
Realise Good Ideas
Open Innovation
Becomea Trend Spotter
Different Stance
Understand Value
Day 5
Maximizing the Return on Innovation
Barriers in the Budget Process
Incubators and Skunk Works
A Marketplace for Ideas, Capital, and Talent
Creating the Portfolio of Projects
Multiplying the Available Resources
Know the Game
Understanding Marathons
Understanding Sprints
Risk and Intelligent Failure
Maximizing Learning over Investment
Learn Faster, Learn Cheaper, Learn Better
Sharing Risk with Partners