Innovator's Toolkit Workshop

Practical Strategies to Help You Develop and Implement Innovation

What if creativity could be taught? We think it can. Successful innovation isn't just about coming up with great ideas - it's also about selecting them, systematically implementing them, and finally evaluating their success. Our Innovator’s Toolkit course teaches you field tested techniques, tips, and tools that will ensure the successful development and implementation of your innovation.

Topics include:

1. Types of Innovation
2. Idea Generation
3. Recognizing Opportunities
4. From Recognition to Support
5. Early Tests of Business Potential
6. Types of Strategy
7. Strategic Moves
8. The S-Curve and Its Strategic Lessons
9. Finding the Future
10. Placing Strategic Bets
11. Human Creativity
12. Working Through Creative Groups
13. Toward a Creative-Friendly Workplace
14. Leaders Can Make a Difference
15. Writing a Business Plan
16. Workplace Assessment Checklist

The Innovator's Toolkit course follows BMG University's structured innovation methodology, D4, which includes the phases of Define, Discover, Develop and Demonstrate. The D4 roadmap helps practitioners identify unmet customer needs, generate ideas to fulfill those needs, analyze the most promising solutions, and pilot and test the end product/process.

What You Will Learn:

• How to recognize potential opportunities
• Moving innovations to market
• Making strategic, innovative moves and placing bets

Scheduled Dates

To register online for a session, click on a date in the table below.  If you prefer to register by fax, here's the ICS Training Registration Fax Back Form.

Please contact Reg Cousineau at 519-822-4545 ext. 102 with any questions or to let us know you are interested in this course if there are no sessions scheduled. You can also send us a note through our contact form.

Who Should Attend

This course is perfect for R&D and product development team members and leaders, product managers, Lean Six Sigma practitioners, customer relationship team members, marketing professionals, and others interested in innovating for the future of their business. There are no prerequisites.

Duration

One-day Workshop

Cost

$395 CAD