the Innovation Course™ : for Leaders


2-Day Workshop for Your Executive & Managerial Leaders

Participants to develop behaviours to enable product innovation including a full workup of the innovation process related to product innovation, for the enabling and leadership of innovative solutions to customer problems. Leaders learn to think creatively, develop new innovative ideas that work and leverage innovation to lead the development of product innovation, through supporting a culture of innovation.

The primary focus will be on innovation enabling behaviours, structures and performance indicators to set to create the culture of innovation within their teams.

Will use top case studies globally, and includes special content based on your briefing to 2thinknow.

Included are executive tools for achieving innovation now for your demanding business stakeholders.

We look for collaborating together!

Keep innovating!

Learning Outcomes

  • Types of innovation
  • Innovation Economy latest updates (Optional for Executives)
  • Process of innovation
  • Internal Model of innovation for reporting ‘up’ and ‘out’
  • Service innovation
  • Innovation as a Life-Cycle process
  • Assessing idea feasibility and evaluation
  • How to create a culture and environment for innovation
  • Develop staff for innovation
  • Develop markets for innovation
  • Management of innovation
  • Metrics & KPIS for innovation
  • Speed of innovation processes
  • Communicating innovation

At the end of this course, the participants will be able to explain, discuss and model innovation; and locate the criteria by which to increase the success rate of innovation in your company, industry and location(s).

PLEASE NOTE - MODULES CAN BE SUBSTITUTED AS YOU REQUIRE

Course Outline

Day 1

1. Innovation Definition and Introduction

2. Innovation Process for Leaders

3. Culture & Environment for Innovation

4. Innovation in Service

Day 2

5. Staff & Market Development for Innovation

6. Managing to Implement Innovation: Processes, Tools & Apps

7. KPI & Metric Design for Innovation

8. Idea Pipeline & Intellectual Property Management

Joint Group Presentations

Group presentation for managers will be prepared in preliminary form, however the main presentation will occur in a joint networking/presentation setting combined with the Innovation Course for Implementers group.

Special Features

All 2thinknow courses on developing a list of real outcomes in the room. At the end of the course, leaders will be able to list and enumerate specific innovation-enabling case skills and actions to encourage and drive innovation in their direct report staff. These will be presented in joint group presentations.

Practitioner hands-on skills (not theory) with full vendor certification by 2thinknow. Available for your team at your premises or our partners.