Growth Through Innovation

Today, innovation performance is a crucial determinant of competitiveness and organizational progress. Moreover, innovation is important to help address global challenges and sustainable development.

This course is designed to provide participants with practical tools and techniques to help them generate and gain support for how to grow through creativity and innovation in the workplace. Participants will explore the conditions necessary for growth, creativity, and innovation to thrive in the workplace and in Business life. Through highly interactive group activities, self-assessment, and discussion, participants will practice a wide range of techniques to access their creative capacities, develop persuasive cases in order to implement new ideas, and obtain buy-in for innovation from stakeholders.

Participants are strongly encouraged to come to class with a situation (i.e., problem, issue, challenge, or goal) that has them stuck.

• Recognize the potential for thinking creatively and enabling innovation
• Describe the creativity mechanism in the human brain
• Assess the creativity strengths and preferences
• Generate innovative solutions by discovering and testing creative ideas
• Apply brainstorming and mind mapping rules
• Use SCAMPER techniques for generating ideas
• Create an environment that continually fosters creativity and innovation
• improve the capacity of effective and innovative decision-making under uncertainty and business development
• Develop a persuasive case for implementing innovation