Strategic innovation

Practical innovation

Develop innovative opportunities for your business.
Learn how to implement them successfully.

Target market

Anyone involved in innovation. Any team that is required to think strategically and creatively - and then implement their exciting new opportunities.

COURSE OBJECTIVES.

This course has been designed to get a team to:

Develop new products to support new markets.

Package existing products in new ways to sell to different market segments.

Identify cross selling opportunities between and within clusters.

Identify opportunities for selling more to existing customers.

Identify new uses for existing products and services.

Identify opportunities for adding a service to a product or a product to a service.

Identify new ways to add value to their customers.

Open the minds of delegates to the strengths they have access to within and between their clusters. Identify new opportunities arising from sharing and combining these strengths in creative new ways.

Develop an implementation plan for successfully implementing the best opportunities

Course contents

Innovation:

What is innovation? The innovation challenge.

Requirements for innovative thinking

Creating a climate that encourages creative thinking in our group.

Brainstorming new creative paradigms for your organisation.

New opportunities from strategic trends.

New opportunities from future scenarios.

New opportunities from mixing and matching strengths within a cluster.

Evaluating and shaping opportunities.

Implementation.

Why the implementation of good opportunities fail.

The six steps to implementing an opportunity successfully

Develop a clear vision of the opportunity being successfully implemented.
Understand how your opportunity is going to impact on the organisation as a system.
Understand what the stakeholders to your opportunity expect.
Identify and remove barriers to the successful implementation of your opportunity.
Develop strategies to deal with the people side of change.
Develop an implementation plan.

Is your organisation ready for innovative thinking?

Contact Ruth Tearle at +27-21 712 2154 or ruth@changedesigns.co.za for a free consultation to determine whether your organisation is ready for innovative thinking.