Summary
The Innovation for Results advanced training program is highly interactive and focused on driving business results. Informed by accelerated learning methodology and adult learning theory, It provides participants with a range of creative problem solving, creativity and innovation tools and techniques. It also includes a framework for immediately applying those skills. Participants develop solutions to real work challenges. This offers an immediate return on your training investment.
Objectives
-Learn immediately applicable methods for Design Thinking and Creative Problem Solving
-Apply these skills to current work challenges to rapidly develop viable solutions
-Develop action plans to support your Innovation for Results prototypes
-Learn a shared vocabulary that fosters creativity and collaboration for extended impact
Results
Many participants have focused on creating breakthrough products, enhancing productivity, improving manufacturing lines, planning strategy and much more. Graduates also report significant gains in efficiency, productivity, resourcefulness, positivity and individual engagement.
Tools
Participants will learn and apply the following tools:
-Forced Connections
-POINt (Pluses, Opportunities, Issues, New thinking)
-Prototyping
-Power Perspectives
-Deep Empathy
-Question Starters
-Why? What's Stopping You?
-Mind Mapping
-Empathy Mapping
-Visual Analogy
-SCAMPER
-Assisters & Resisters
-Read-it Write-it Stick-it
-Evaluation Matrix
-Card Sort
-Highlighting
Key Benefits
For the individual
-Provides creative thinking, innovation tools and techniques for generating and evaluating ideas
-Creates more productive and effective meetings
-Earn 16 hours of Professional Development hours or Continuing Education Units for Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (IIBA)
For the organization's performance
-Drastically reduces the time required for implementing innovative solutions
-Provides the root cause analysis skills to fully understand challenges to yield creative solutions to complex issues
-Provides effective ways to solve organizational innovation problems efficiently
For the organization's culture
-Enables individuals, groups and teams to share a common language and process for creative problem solving
-Ignites the power of the team to find innovative solutions quickly
-Fosters a culture of innovation throughout the organization
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