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Programme Outline

Theme
Creativity and innovation are our primary sources of competitive advantage. The greatest success lies with those who know how to tap and promote creativity and innovation in individuals, teams and organisations.

The programme will explore the process of Total Innovation Management, that is, how best to stimulate profit-related creativity and innovation throughout your organisation. You can then unleash this awesome and focused intelligence to delight your customers and investors alike.

Total Innovation Management involves generating, translating and managing ideas into action for increased profitability and performance. Therefore, it applies equally to product, processes, procedures and people.

Objectives

• To introduce the concept and practice of Total Innovation Management and position creativity and innovation as primary sources for a competitive advantage.
• To promote greater levels of individual, team and organisational open thinking, creativity and innovation.
• To introduce and practice 1-D, 2-D and 3-D thinking.
• To introduce the concept and practice of 'situational initiative' - initiative and innovation within a framework.
• To provide participants with awareness and tools to manage more ideas and transfer them into action - to enable them to apply Total Innovation Management.

 

Programme content

Through lecture, video, discussion and roundtable discussions, delegates will acquire a full understanding of Total Innovation Management and supporting practices and techniques.

Total Innovation Management - Overview

• Achieving competitive advantage through creativity and innovation.
• Why knowledge and expertise is no longer enough.
• Creativity and innovation as our greatest skills.
  
  

The Individual

• Test your Creativity, Innovation and Empowerment Quotients.
• Why the individual and corporate mind work well as closed systems.
• Open thinking - ensuring that your frame of reference never becomes a cage of reference.
• Creativity as a skill you can learn.
• How to think beyond the square - knowing what square you live within.

The Team

• High impact creativity in teams.
• The process of Ideas into Action.
• The stages of the Total Innovation process, colours of thought.
• Tools for Ideas into Action.
• 1-D, 2-D and 3-D thinking.
• Do you prefer evolutionary or revolutionary thinking?
• Computer-aided creativity.

The Organisation

• Turning people on - making it happen - the high performing individual - passion in the workplace.
• Does the world happen to you or do you happen to the world?
• The failure and success profile - learning the success profile.
• Empowerment and innovation within a framework.
• Re-defining the meaning of 'mistake' - encouraging sensible experimentation.

• Values, climate and leadership for innovation and creativity.
• Engineering the organisation for Total Innovation Management - innovation levers.

 

Programme duration
2 days.

 

Programme location
Preferably off-site and residential.

 

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