Innovating for Business - Rethinking Products and Service Success Strategies

Yours 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

• Value Chain management.

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.

Note: Available as Classroom Training as Well as Online Training