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Innovation: From Vision to Reality |
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Innovation Session Overview |
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| Most individuals have read about Innovation, heard about Innovation
and maybe even tried to be innovative. But few understand exactly
what the process of innovation really is. Innovation is not the result
of a lone genius, rather it is a collaborative process where people
from many different parts of the organization contribute to the creation
and implementation of new ideas. |
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| Organizations that are characterized as innovative focus on both theirs, and their customer’s, needs and opportunities. They focus on achieving and maintaining profitable operations. These organizations are constantly looking for ways to reinvent themselves and constantly introduce new varieties and generations of products and services. |
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| Many of the world’s most successful innovators, from Thomas Edison to choreographer Twyla Tharp, concede that innovation cannot be forced, but it can be developed. That is, we can enhance our capacity to generate ideas, innovations, and adopt what Tharp calls the “creative habit.” Developing the understanding and practice of these creative habits is the foundation for a contemporary process that fosters innovation in the workplace. |
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Workshop Overview |
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| This dynamic workshop engages participants in the process of creating, developing and implementing innovation. This engaging session will start off with discussions on how to create a culture within their organization and/or department which supports the creation and development of innovations. They will test their innovations, identify barriers to innovations and develop the strategies which will ensure their successful implementation. They will gain knowledge in how to use the innovation process to improve their work processes, team interaction, organizational structures, etc. |
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| One key learning for all participants will be the awareness that the trick to innovation is not in the tools, rather it is in knowing how to take the tools and use them through a process from idea generation to innovation implementation. |
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Key Participant Learnings |
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- How to generate visions and ideas
- How to create the culture within the organization which supports innovation
- How to create the Innovation Team
- How to apply the innovation process to realize opportunities
- The application of the innovation process to work processes
and/or team interaction and/or work structures, etc.
- The development of Innovation Statements
- Identification of blockages to Innovation
- How to measure the impact of going with the final decision or
not
- How to prioritize the innovations to ensure those with the highest
impact are realized first
- How to apply innovation and creativity to the development of
decisions
- How to develop detailed implementation plans that ensure successful
execution of the innovations
- The identification of benefits to each innovation
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Workshop Content |
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| Introduction |
- Define Innovation
- Understand what innovation is and is not
- Traditional methods of capturing ideas compared to more current thinking and approaches
- Generate visions and ideas
- Record all visions and ideas
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| Innovation Culture |
- Barriers to creating a culture of innovation
- Understanding what is innovation culture
- Driving the organization into a culture of innovation
- Generating innovations within the culture
- Identifying the innovation culture within your own organization
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| The Innovative Process |
| Capturing the Vision and Ideas |
- Identify the drivers for Innovation
- Understand how to generate visions and ideas
- Identify and record all visions and ideas through various brainstorming techniques
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| Creating the Innovation Team |
- Identify Innovation team resources
- Create a cross-functional team who will be responsible for
exploring and implementing the innovations
- Ensure team includes both creative and practical individuals
- Consider including those who will be impacted by the Innovation
(customers)
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| Reviewing and Combining Innovations |
- Discuss the captured visions and ideas in the innovation team
- Brainstorm and expand on these visions and ideas with the team
- Understand the process of grouping the visions and ideas
- Learn how to develop a statement representing each group of visions and ideas
- Review and finalize the innovation statements in the innovation team
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| Identifying Benefits of each Innovation |
- Identify benefits of each innovation statement to the organization, department/plant,
staff and customers
- Learn how to quantify the benefits of each innovation statement and related group of innovations
- Describe the fit to the organization’s strategy and objectives
- Estimate the business potential for each innovation statement and related group of innovations
- Determine the impact on the customer for each innovation statement and related group of innovations
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| Overcoming Barriers |
- Identify the barriers to each innovation group
- Recognize the elements that cause barriers
- Create ideas to “drive out fear”
- Use mind mapping to identify and develop options/solutions to overcome these barriers to the innovations
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| Develop the Business Effectiveness Strategy |
- Identify all of the Innovation implementation requirements
- Identify the action steps required to ensure the innovations are successfully implemented
- Identify the resource requirements
- Estimate the time required to implement each innovation
- Finalize the cost-benefit analysis of the innovations
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Duration |
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2 Days
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