Course 6: Driving Breakthrough Innovation
Duration - 2 Days
Language - English
Level - Advanced
About the Course
50% of all innovation efforts fail to realize the expected value because the innovation doesn't address the real problem or execution fails. The leader who leads many of the innovation efforts in organizations, needs a solid, customer-centred approach to initiating, developing, and deploying innovative solutions. Learners will engage in a customer-centred design process from framing to implementation and practice discovering, framing, and driving successful innovation efforts that create sustainable value.
This course teaches leaders how to lead formal and informal innovation initiatives, using a three-step process based on the principles of design thinking. The process involves focusing on user needs, identifying boundaries across departments, and continuous experimentation to learn, develop and improve.
Participants Will Learn How To:
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Describe how the application of a design thinking process can yield offerings that create, deliver, and capture sustainable and differentiated value in the marketplace.
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Apply a customer-centric approach to elicit the needs of the customer.
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Define innovation and its multiple sources.
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Innovate on both customer-facing products and internally facing processes.
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Apply an ideation approach to ensure broad diversity of thought and perspective in developing a concept.
Course Modules
Each of the following modules contains the listed learning topics.
Module1
Welcome & Introduction
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The Advanced Leadership Program Framework.
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What's in your wallet?
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The course learning objectives.
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The course learning journey.
Module 2
Doer,
and Leader
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Innovation today.
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Innovator is everyone's role.
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Innovation versus creativity.
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The leaders role in innovation.
Module 3
What is
Innovation?
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Innovation is a discipline.
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Innovation is customer-centric.
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Innovation is solving customer problems.
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Types of innovation.
Module 4
Big Ideas Are
Never the Problem
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The discipline of critiquing your ideas.
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Reframing to see the real problem.
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Fail forward fast repeatedly.
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The Innovator's DNA
Module 5
Innovator's DNA:
Emphasising / Reframing
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Digging deeper
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Pain points.
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Reframing.
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Solving the right problem.
Module 6
Innovator's DNA:
Ideating
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Operating outside-in.
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Expanding perception and thinking.
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A diversity of perspectives.
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The challenges of attaching to a single idea.
Module 7
Innovator's DNA:
Experimenting
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Cycles of testing.
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Loops of learning.
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Managing failure.
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The gift of unexpected results.
Module 8
Innovator's DNA:
Piloting
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Pressure testing solutions in the real world.
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Habits and routines that support curiosity.
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The continuous learning mindset.
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Challenge the status quo.
