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Courseware for Innovation Program
 About the Course:
Develop your ability to analyze new developments and innovate new ideas. Achieve competence and create opportunities for innovation and lead projects to meet innovative ideas.
Together with communication and leadership skills, solving problems and making sound decisions, are essential Management skills which can be developed through training. We all have the ability and potential to innovate new ideas, but most of us use only a fraction of our brain power. The Innovation program helps delegates to develop their creative problem solving ability, enabling them to make best use of their talents.
Benefits
- Keep abreast of industry innovation
- Easier and quicker problem solving
- Use new methods to create ideas
- Increased use of brain power
- Effective decision making
- More opportunities
- Enhanced project management
Target Audience:
Managers & Heads of Departments who want to develop their ability to innovate.
Course Duration:
16 hours
Course Content:
- MODULE 1: ANALYSING INNOVATION AND TRENDS
- A Brief History of Innovation
- Exercise: The Impact of Innovation and Technology
- Identifying Trends
- Exercise: Pros and Cons of New Technological Innovations
- Exercise: Making Recommendations
- Exercise: Using Your Knowledge of Innovations
- Summary
- MODULE 2: INFLUENCES ON CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
- The Impact of Organizational Factors on Innovation
- Organizational Culture
- Exercise: Identifying your Organizational Culture
- The Impact of Human Resources on innovation
- Exercise: Analyze Human Resources and Management Styles
- The Impact of Leadership on Innovation
- Exercise: Action Plan
- Summary
- MODULE 3: CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE THINKING
- The Potential of Your Brain
- The Two Modes of Information Processing
- Exercise: Determining Your Brain Centricity
- Levels of Thought
- Phases of Creativity
- Creativity Techniques
- Blocks to Creativity
- Exercise: What Helps and Hinders Creativity in your Team.
- Using Creativity in Problem Solving
- Exercise: Implementing Creativity Techniques
- Summary
- MODULE 4: THE 6 STEP APPROACH TO PROBLEM SOLVING AND INNOVATION
- Introduction
- Step 1 Decide if a Problem Exists
- Step 2 Define the Problem
- Exercise: Problem Definitions
- Step 3 Identify Symptoms versus Causes
- Exercise: Identifying Symptoms
- Cause and Effect
- Exercise: Cause and Effect
- Step 4 Generate Alternative Solutions
- Exercise: Brain Writing
- Step 5 Evaluate and Select
- Exercise: Criteria Matrix
- Exercise: Consequences Worksheet
- Step 6 Action Plan
- Exercise: Contingency Plan
- Team Innovation Techniques
- The 6 Thinking Hats
- Exercise: Thinking Hats
- Nominal Group Techniques (NGT)
- Implementing Creativity Techniques
- MODULE 5: MANAGING INNOVATIVE PROJECTS
- The Framework for Innovative Projects
- Defining the Project
- Exercise: Questionnaire: Leading Projects
- Planning a Project
- Apply Innovation to the Planning Stage
- Work Breakdown Structure and Task Allocation
- Implementing and Monitoring the Project
- Concluding and Reporting on the Project
- Summary
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