Innovation Leadership Masterclass is a transformative program designed to expand participants' understanding of innovation and empower them to drive meaningful change within their organisations. This masterclass equips participants with the structure, tools, and confidence needed to foster innovation throughout the value chain and inspire their workforce to embrace change.

By asking the right questions, involving stakeholders, and championing innovation, participants will emerge as change agents capable of leading their organisations into a future of growth and adaptation.

Participants will explore a comprehensive range of topics, from understanding corporate innovation and differentiating between creativity and continuous improvement to mastering strategic approaches and innovation fundamentals. Participants will gain practical skills in problem identification, ideation, prototyping, and testing.

Through this course participants will develop the skills and knowledge to:

• Describe corporate innovation and how to apply it in modern organisations
• Differentiate between innovation, creativity and continuous improvement and know when and how to apply each concept
• Recognise cultures that foster innovation as opposed to those that impede it
• Adopt the mindset and attitude of a corporate innovator and learn how to instil this belief in staff
• Apply a range of skills and techniques essential for successful innovation
• Describe how innovation connects with corporate strategy
• Leverage systems within own organisation to innovate
• Identify and challenge ingrained institutional barriers to innovation
• Assess the innovation readiness of your organisation
• Embed a proven process for innovation that can be applied to any organisational setting.

Day One

Innovation Fundamentals

• Definition
• Core elements
• Perspectives

Creative vs Critical Thinking

• Divergent and convergent approaches

The Innovation Spectrum

• From drivers to enablers

Value Proposition and The Value Chain

A Deep Dive into Ten Types of Innovation

Continuous Improvement

• Lean thinking

Strategic Approaches

• McKinsey Three Horizons
• Design Thinking
• Blue Ocean Strategy

Day Two

Problem Identification

• Stakeholder analysis
• Personas
• User stories

Solution Mapping

• A3 reports
• DMAIC process
• Data collection

Analytical Tools

• Cause and effect
• Five Why's
• Pareto Analysis

Ideation Techniques

• Mind mapping
• Affinity diagrams
• Reverse brainstorming
• Scamper

Prototyping and Testing

• From models to real-world simulations

Costs and group sizes may vary.

Minimum group size: 10

Maximum group size: 16

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