Innovating for Business Course - Rethinking Products and Service Success Strategies

You should be a learning organisation filled with people who constantly develop new solutions and ideas for products and services; who navigate new routes and open up new business frontiers; who even repackage existing products and services for added value.  Your edge in the future will be the result of the creative thoughts of your people. 

Organisations whose people are trained in the innovative thinking process promoted in this course and use it well, quickly find it translates to enduring profitable operations over many decades in the future.

Course Contents

Day One

• Understanding Innovation
• Sustaining Innovation v Disruptive Innovation
• Why Innovation Matters
• The reality of disappearing jobs and professions
• Challenges and opportunities
• Innovation Principles
• Challenge – the Pull
• Customer – the Push
• Creativity – the Brain
• Contemplation – the Ladder to the Future Innovations
• A Model Innovation Process
• Your why
• Your how
• The value
• A dozen routes to innovation
• Implementing New Ideas that Create Value.

Day Two

• Make Your Innovation Come Alive!
• The 4-Action framework
• Implementing Innovation
• A new process
• A New product/service
• A new business model
• A new System
• Divergent Thinking Tools
• Convergent Thinking Tools
• Personal Innovation Competencies
• What’s your thinking style?
• Gap analysis
• Brainstorming Guidelines