This is an exam preparation training program for the CInP Certification. 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.R

- 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.