Innovation Fundamentals Course
Where ANYONE can learn how to Find, Filter, and Fast Track BIG IDEAS RIGHT NOW…in your current job
At the Innovation Engineering Fundamentals Course you’ll learn the fundamentals of innovaiton, but MORE IMPORTANTLY you’ll apply the learning to start accelerating success in your work RIGHT NOW – no matter your skills, title, or experience.
What You’ll Learn
This course is based on the fundamental skills that make up the Innovation Engineering curriculum that is taught on and off university campuses:
CREATE SKILLS
- Meaningful Uniqueness
- Stimulus & Diversity
- Exploring Stimulus
- Create Session 1.0
COMMUNICATE SKILLS
- Strategy Activation – Blue Card
- Concept Writing – Yellow Card
- Concept Improvement
- Estimating Concept Value
COMMERCIALIZE SKILLS
- PDSA – Plan, Do, Study, Act
- PDSA – Best Practices
- PDSA – Concept Prototypes
- PDSA – Functional Prototypes
SYSTEM DRIVEN LEADERSHIP OVERVIEW
With These skills you’ll able to:
- Write an innovation project mission that will inspire great ideas.
- Create 8X more big ideas than brainstorming.
- Increase the persuasive power of your ideas by up to 5X.
- Deliver results up to 6X faster using a new innovative work process.
- Jump start innovation in your job instantly using a cloud-based innovation software suite for 60 days following the course.
How It Works
The Innovation Engineering Fundamentals Course is taught using our patent-pending Cycles to Mastery teaching method (digital/lab/application/experience/reflection). It’s a way of teaching that accelerates the transfer of knowledge, helping participants feel confident in their new skills faster than traditional teaching methods.
Step One: 1/2 Day of Online Digital Classes
Before attending the Fundamentals session you use your private Innovation Engineering Labs portal to complete about 1/2 day of digital classes on the fundamentals of how to create, communicate, and commercialize meaningfully unique solutions to your challenges. You can watch the short classes on your computer, phone, or tablet.
Step Three: Application to Your Work
You’ll get started applying the new mindset, systems, and tools to your work – connecting the dots from innovation theory into practical application. You’ll think deepr about systems you can improve and how you can create solutions, define them, and get qualitative and quantitative feedback on your ideas to improve them – FAST.
Step Two: 2 Days of Practical Experience
Because you learned the content in the digital classes, you are ready to make the learning real in the hands-on, 2-day lab class – NO boring lectures! The interactive experiences in the live class cover the content of the Innovation Engineering Fundmentals course taught on university campuses in a way that is relevant to your work.
Step Four: 60 Days of Living it & Certification
During the 60 days after the session, complete your coursework and real world application project to achieve Innovation Engineering Blue Belt certification. Your private Innovation Engineering Labs portal makes this painless, as it lets you easily connect with your classmates, your instructors, and others using advanced project management, collaboration, and creative tools.
SELF REPORTED GROWTH IN ABILITY TO CREATE, COMMUNICATE & COMMERCIALIZE INNOVATIONS
SURVEYS DOCUMENT IT. PARTICIPANTS MENTION IT. BUT SOMETIMES NOTHING’S BETTER THAN HEARING IT FROM SOMEONE WHO’S BEEN THROUGH IT BEFORE.
“I think it’s one of one of the greatest systems out there for unleashing creativity, encouraging creativity, and for applying discipline on top of creativity.”
“I see excitement from people. Before (employees said) ‘I’m going to come to work. I’m going to work on this project. And that would be it.’ Now, you just hear the chitter-chatter. And the best thing is you hear them talking about projects we’re not working on, saying, ‘Hey, I was thinking about this the other weekend. This would be really neat if we could do…’ It’s getting excitement within the organization – we see that we’re going somewhere.”
“Innovation Engineering makes it possible to have an impact. It is extremely practical in how it approaches (innovation)… It’s not easy work. But it’s fun work because you’re energized about it.”
FACILITATORS
All courses are facilitated and run by certified Innovation Engineering Black Belts.
WATCH THE FIRST DIGITAL CLASS
While most of the digital classes are approximately 7 minutes long, this first class in the series is a bit longer and teaches participants the who, what, why, and how of the Innovation Engineering Fundamentals Course.
Cost
The total cost for the Training + Tools + Certification Coaching, which includes 1/2 day of online classes, 2 in-class days, and 2 months of coaching on experience assignments that apply to your real work, is $2995 per person.
Training is available through PRIVATE and PUBLIC OPEN ENROLLMENT programs. CONTACT US to learn more about private sessions.