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Innovation
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We believe “being innovative” isn’t a characteristic for a precious few. It’s an essential life skill for every human on the planet.
Whether you are a leader, a student, a new employee, an entrepreneur or a seasoned professional – you can upgrade your innovation skills.
INNOVATION FUNDAMENTAL
LEARN: the most essential innovation skills and get started applying them to accelerate success in your work RIGHT NOW – no matter your skills, title, or experience.
Skills to Create Ideas
- How to recognize a meaningfully unique innovation
- How to 6X your creativity without brainstorming
- How to turbo-charge your creativity in any situation
- How to leverage diversity to create ideas
Skills to Communicate Ideas
- How to give purpose to your innovation work
- How to help others see your idea as you see it
- Simple ways to improve your concept writing
- How to build your innovation confidence using math
Problem-Solving Skills
- How to run fail fast, fail cheap cycles of learning
- Best practices for accelerating success through experimentation
- How to 10X your innovation decision making success with rapid research
- Learn how to make it real with fail fast, fail cheap prototyping
This on-demand online course is self-paced so you can begin immediately. And because every module has an application component, you’ll work on your own challenges throughout the course.
- Instant Access
- One-on-One Digital Coaching
- 6 Months to Complete Certification
LEARN: advanced skills, systems, and tools for enabling a culture of innovation in your team or organization.
Skills to Create Ideas
- How to recognize a meaningfully unique innovation
- How to 6X your creativity without brainstorming
- How to turbo-charge your creativity in any situation
- How to Leverage Diversity to Create Ideas
- How to use Unrelated Stimulus to generate Dramatically Different ideas
- How to use Patent & Technology Stimulus to generate Ownable ideas
- How to use Insight Stimulus to generate ideas that create Customer Pull (Design Thinking)
- How to use Market Stimulus to generate Differentiated ideas
- How to shift-perspectives of fellow innovators
- How to use Future Stimulus to generate Proactive, Market-shifting ideas
- How to use Wisdom Stimulus to generate Behavior-changing ideas
- How to run “professional grade” ideation sessions
Skills to Communicate Ideas
- How to give purpose to your innovation work
- How to help others see your idea as you see it
- Simple ways to improve your concept writing
- How to build your innovation confidence using math
- How to optimize an innovation
- How to coach others to improve their innovation pitch
- How to communicate complex ideas
- How to add “oomph” to any idea
- How to win in technology translation (and get more value out of R&D discoveries)
- Tactics for increasing the meaningfulness of innovations
- How to communicate innovations “in the real world”
- How to proactively sell innovations
Problem-Solving Skills
- How to run fail fast, fail cheap cycles of learning
- Best practices for accelerating success through experimentation
- How to 10X your innovation decision making success with rapid research
- Learn how to make it real with fail fast, fail cheap
- How to 10X your innovation decision making success with rapid research
- How to reduce variation when running innovation forecasts
- How to do cost and price estimating on innovations (even without data)
- Best practices for innovation business models
- Best practices for proprietary protection of innovations
- Best practices for organizational design in innovation
- Best practices for pitch forms & formats to get funding
- How to make investment-grade decisions on innovations
And 12 additional Advanced Innovation Systems & Culture Skills
This online cohort course is a combination of video lessons, practice assignments, and virtual class meetups. Each week there will be between 2 – 4 hours of coursework related to a specific topic and collection of skills. You will follow this up with a 60 – 90 minute virtual class where you will interact with your classmates and instructors receiving live instruction and feedback.
- Virtual Kick-Off Meeting
- One-on-One Digital Coaching
- 6 Live Online Instructor Led Classes
- 12 Months of Coaching to Complete Certification