Creativity & Innovation Training

Course Overview

In today’s dynamic market, mastering innovation is the critical difference between industry leaders and competitors. However, many organizations often approach creative thinking in an unsystematic and chaotic manner. Making innovative decisions within companies can’t rely on intuition; it demands a profound understanding of various innovation types, creative thinking techniques, methodologies, and innovation management. Our training course is designed to guide you in thinking outside the box and enhancing your creativity.

Our training program equips you with essential tools, techniques, and theoretical knowledge to drive innovation within your organization. Navigate diverse thinking styles, explore idea generation techniques, and leverage team diversity for enhanced creativity and problem-solving. The course also covers innovation types, methodologies, idea management, creative thought process and the innovation management process.

As the course progresses, we address strategic considerations for managing your organization’s innovation portfolio and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) tailored to different innovation types. This Course is essential for Chief Innovation Officers, managers, R&D personnel, and those leading innovative thinkers.

Key Highlights:

Participants will enhance the following skills:

  • Gain awareness of diverse ideation types for enhanced flexibility in innovative thinking
  • Apply multiple ideation techniques in real-world contexts
  • Improve team-level creativity and problem-solving skills
  • Understand critical and creative thinking details with relevant tools.
  • Explore the innovation management process for optimal outcome
  • Learn KPI foundations for realistic performance evaluation

 

Who Should Attend

  • Leaders and Managers
  • Supervisors and Team Leaders
  • HR Professionals
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Project managers
  • All individuals who want to develop a more creative approach and come up with innovative solutions

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Review your organization and its processes to reveal the room for improvement of productivity
  • Be able to consciously switch between various thinking styles (creative, analytical, systems, critical, etc.)
  • Understand and practice various ideation techniques
  • Understand the applicability of the various innovation methodologies to your organization
  • Be able to apply and manage an appropriate idea management process in your organization
  • Apply an innovation management process – and modify as appropriate – for your organization
  • Manage your innovation portfolio according to innovation types, taking the strategic and market context into account
  • Understand how to build and sustain an innovative organization
  • An overview of appropriate KPIs for different innovation types and organizational contexts
  • Understand the current global innovation trends
  • Lead your organization to better results with the assistance of innovative methods

Course Content

Why everyone wants innovation, but no one wants to change

The innovation imperative and risks of innovation

The innovator’s dilemma

Thinking types

  • Analytical vs creative thinking
  • Divergent vs convergent thinking
  • Lateral thinking
  • Systems thinking
  • Inspirational thinking
  • Principles of creative thinking
  • Bringing it all together

Ideation – creative thinking strategies and the idea generation process

  • Opposite Thinking
  • Rip and Rap
  • Ego Alter
  • Problem Framing
  • Mind Mapping
  • Scamper
  • TRIZ
  • Brainstorming
  • Six Thinking Hats*

Enhancing creativity and problem solving at the team level

  • Driver of creativity and problem solving at the team level: diversity
  • Enablers of team creativity and problem solving
  • The synergistic mechanism by which teams solve problems
  • Questionnaire: The Four Forces Assessment

Creativity under constraints

  • We cannot operate in a vacuum
  • Constraints actually stimulate creativity
  • An active recognition and definition of constraints is helpful
  • Determine clear design criteria

Using creativity to improve problem-solving processes and decision making

  • Determining where creative thinking processes can help in the standard decision-making process

The adoption of innovations

  • The innovation adoption lifecycle
  • Jumping the chasm

Innovation types/models

  • Process/Product/Service
  • The Innovation Matrix
  • Ten Types of Innovation
  • Innovation based on Industry Cycles
  • The Innovation Ambition Matrix

Innovation methodologies

  • Design thinking
  • Phase-gate
  • Lean startup
  • Business model canvas
  • Customer journey
  • Product configuration
  • Blue Ocean

Innovation management

  • Definition and motivation
  • Idea management
  • Idea management committee and idea evaluation
  • Push/pull ? innovation methodology
  • Innovation management process

Innovation portfolio management

  • Innovation pipeline for different time horizons
  • Options of resource allocation
  • Taking an overall view of your innovation portfolio

KPIs in innovation – mapping performance and expectations

  • Conversion ratios for each step in the innovation process / value stream
  • Holistic ratios for the rate of renewal of the organisation
  • Financial & market measures Balancing the desire to innovate with risk management
  • Innovation Competency / Effectiveness / Discipline / Repeatability
  • Growth and sustainability measures

Building and sustaining innovative organizations

  • Organizational capabilities, structure, strategy, and culture
  • Rewards and recognition
  • Organizing for disruptive innovation

Current innovation trends

  • Macro trends
  • Digital trends
  • Key insights from global innovation managers

Table of Contents

Course Code DU1405 Category
Location: Dubai, UAE
Duration: 5 Days
Language: English
Cost: 15,770 SAR
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