Innovation is not just for research and development. In fact the fundamental principles of innovation add significant value to everyone's working lives. Innovation can deliver better, faster and smarter ways to complete everyday tasks, reducing costs, increasing efficiency and creating better outcomes for customers.
Our Everyday Innovation programme teaches you the tricks of the innovation trade. You will learn how to think differently, act differently, generate new ideas quickly and effectively, and build the skills to accurately and systematically assess them and determine their likelihood of success.
Join us and explore the journey from creativity (generating ideas) to true innovation (making ideas real and usable).
An ideal entry into the world of innovative thinking, Everyday Innovation is suitable for individuals from all levels of an organisation.
Learning Sector: Innovation skills and practice Suitability: General audience, Technical and domain specialists, Supervisory and line management, Senior managers and leaders
How Does Your Business Benefit:
- Understand the difference between invention, creativity and innovation.
- Understand what makes a good idea.
- Learn the basic principles of systematic idea creation and how to use them to shortcut the creative process.
- Learn how to make best use of the resources available to you, ensuring ideas are relevant, cost effective and environmentally sustainable.
- Learn and apply the techniques used analyse and assess ideas.
- Apply the learnings within real-world situations in your own working life.
How We Deliver:
- Assessing the current innovation climate in your organisation
- Chindōgu and the Japanese art of invention
- Separating invention from innovation
- Defining an Ideal Final Result (IFR)
- The 40 inventive principles
- Making best use of resources
- Six Thinking Hats
- Inspiring creativity and innovation in others
- Applying the learnings in the workplace
