Innovation management for entrepreneurial businesses

Are you wanting to stand out of the crowd through thinking out of the box, differentiate your business from its competitors, and increase the perceived value to the customers and markets?

Are you wanting to grow and develop your business innovatively through innovative business development?

Are you wanting to compete innovatively in the marketplace and get a competitive advantage over other companies stuck in their systems?

If your answers to above questions are 'yes', this course definitely helps you a lot.

What you will learn:

1. To build your own ‘Innovation strategy’ to enhance growth and sustainability of your business.
2. To understand how Innovation can help you in achieving success in your Business development and sales management.
3. To understand how you can solve problems more effectively and differently through innovation management.
4. To outcompete the competition through being more innovative in your business development and sales management.

How you will benefit from this workshop:

1. You'll learn how to unbox your creativity and gain key insights into the articulation process of setting innovation strategy.
2. You'll learn how to stimulate creativity and out-of-box thinking among employees to enhance their problem-solving capabilities.
3. You'll learn how to identify, assess, enhance, and verify new/creative ideas in your organization.
4. You'll learn how to assess your company's creativity climate and identify ways to encourage and promote creativity in yourself and others.
5. At the end of this workshop, you will be able to identify the inhibitors of creative thinking and the barriers to change and use different creativity tools and techniques to generate and encourage innovative thinking and problem-solving.

Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included

• Curriculum of Innovation in Business - download

Workshop outlines:

1st session:

• Creativity
• Linking creativity and problem solving
• Creative problem solving
• How can Creativity be nurtured?
• Creativity test

2nd session:

• Innovation & Innovation management
• How to motivate people to innovate

3rd session:

• Enablers and barriers of innovation

4th session:

• Innovation environment and innovation culture

5th session:

• Innovation management
• Innovation success (outcomes of innovation management)
• Innovation capabilities

6th session:

• Different types of innovation
• Levels and categories of innovation
• Classifying innovative firms

7th session:

• Innovation objectives and innovation benefits
• Pre-requisites of innovation
• Challenges of innovation in organizations

8th session:

• Innovation strategy
• Applications of competitive innovation
• Innovation value chain
• Required People & roles for innovation.
• Major categories of ideas
• Idea assessment, enhancement, and verification

Materials:

Electronic copies of slides in the form of PDF workbook. A certificate will be provided at the end of the course.

Duration:

Online: Eight Online sessions, each session will be three hours with a 15-minute break. the dates and times will be agreed with the students once they have purchased the course.

On-site: 3-day course

Location:

Online: Zoom platform

On-site: Client’s offices in the UK.

Who can participate:

1. Individuals who are actively seeking to both develop their innovation skills and know how to make innovation happen in the organizations,
2. Those who want to promote the growth and sustainability of their business through an innovation process.
3. Managers or executives who want to enhance creativity and innovation in their organizations.

About the workshop?

The workshop is planned in three levels from introducing the concept to advanced issues. The workshop instructor will be Kambiz Bidad, former business manager of Lloyds Register. He has planned and run more than 50 workshops on innovation and strategy articulation processes.

Who can participate:

• Individuals who are actively seeking to both develop their innovation skills and know how to make innovation happen in the organizations,
• Business owners and company directors who want to promote the growth and sustainability of their business through an innovation process.
• Managers or executives who want to enhance creativity and innovation in their organizations.

A general knowledge about corporate culture.

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