Innovation For Business Results
"The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present the decline will be fast" Peter Drucker(1985). Innovation is the most developed end of the core skill of change management that is required of all interim managers.
All successful companies innovate and they all innovate in their own way. But there is also much that they have in common. Would you like to get a good idea of the chances of success and failure of a proposed innovation? Would you like to know how to emulate competitors' success or parry their innovations?
This course looks at the different types and sources of innovation and how different organisations have grappled with the challenge of producing better products and services through innovation. This will help you to analyse where and how your client organisation can innovate.
Course content
The systematic study of business innovation is fairly recent. Twentieth century research has shown that innovation rarely happens by accident. It requires discipline. This course will introduce some of the lessons from research on Innovation and encourage you to relate them to your own working context.
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- recognise that there are many different types of innovation available
- analyse where and how an organisation can innovate
- implement a variety of different innovation approaches
- organize for rapid experimentation and sustainable innovation
- use knowledge about the market implications of modes of innovation to analyse both your client"s and competitors' new products and services
- have a good idea of the chances of success and failure of a proposed innovation
- emulate competitors' success or parry their innovations.
In this course there are activities that you can use to help you relate your learning to your organisation and your role within it.
A number of key techniques and competencies for innovation will be identified and developed, using an integrated work-based activity to produce a report on a real product, process or service and using what you have learned on the course to plan and implement it.
Purchase Information
This is an on-line only course, which delegates are free to undertake to suit their personal time and circumstances.
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- Managing organisational politics
- Creative problem solving
- Ethics at work
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