The course starts at the beginning, and teaches a practical, hands-on approach to business innovation explaining clearly, what it is, and how to go about pursuing it within a business enterprise. It also presents a number of key concepts relating to Innovation Management – the work that Innovation Project Leaders and Program Leaders do within the business to help drive and sustain a program of ongoing innovation therein. When finished, participants should walk away knowing exactly how to pursue and drive new innovation within their business, so that the business can produce a large number of new innovation outputs – and so that you can have the fun of defining, developing, and launching those innovations!

-          The Innovation Professional – World Changers of the Business World.

-          The Innovation Fundamentals – Getting to know Business Innovation.

-          Innovation’s Design Outputs – The Many Forms of “What’s New”

-          The Effective Innovator – Einstein, Edison,  Jobs, and You

-          Creativity, Ideation, & Brainstorming – Tapping Into Innovation’s Source of Life.

-          The GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method.

-          Getting Innovation Done – Running Innovation’s Source of Life.

-          Running the Front End of Innovation

-          Running the Mid Zone of Innovation

-          Running the Back End of Innovation.

-          The Big Dig – The Role of Research in Innovation

-          Core Concepts in Research

-          Problem / Solution Research

-          Forward-Looking Research Methods.

-          “Hard” Research

-          Developing the Insight Plan

-          Design Thinking, Human-Centric Design, & The Role of Design in Innovation.

-          The Innovation Manager – Grand Masters of the New

-          The Innovation Manager as Project Leader – Driving Focused Innovation

-          Leading & Building a Core Innovation Team

-          The Innovation Management Process

-          Program & Project Management Tools for Innovation Management

-          Engagement – The Art of Participatory Innovation

-          Designing Innovation Spaces

-          The Innovation Manager as Liason – Leveraging Open Innovation

-          Storytelling – How to Spark the Imagination & Turn Ships

-          Selecting the Winning Ideas – My Innovation is Better Than Your Innovation

-          Integration – Putting it All Together

- Front Line Staff and Middle Managers in Strategy, Innovation, Marketing, and Research and Development (R&D), including Financial sector and MSMEs staff.