Innovation and Creativity |
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INNOVATION IS A MANAGEMENT PROCESS FOR DEALING WITH CHANGE |
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LEARN HOW TO: |
- understand innovation as a process
- create an environment for new ideas and their implementation
- overcome barriers to creativity
- problem-solve as part of innovation
- operate in groups for break-through thinking
- work with change
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AIM TO: |
- recognise what must change and what must take its place
- experiment with and explore ideas
- seek new ways of doing things
- sell and implement solutions into the system
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ESTABLISH: |
- innovation as a management process
- creativity as a tool of innovation
- pro-activity and initiative in thinking
- solutions for changing conditions
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OBJECTIVES |
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The seminar enables participants to: |
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Deal with the Need for Innovation |
- recognise innovation as part of the need to respond to change
- create a procedure to manage the innovation process
- review the system in which the problem exists and identify the problem
- analyse, define and state the problem effectively
- prepare the system for the solution
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Release their Creativity |
- see creativity as a tool of innovation
- overcome barriers to creativity
- harness the power of the group
- be solutions and ideas orientated
- experiment and improvise with ideas
- problem-solve successfully
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Manage Innovative Problem-solving |
- facilitate the problem-solving session
- review and re-state the problem
- create solutions and work in groups to achieve synergy
- operate brainstorming techniques
- apply morphology, metaphor and other innovative approaches to problem-solving
- evaluate and prioritise solutions
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Implement Solutions |
- action plan the prioritised solutions
- set goals with realistic time-scales
- prepare the package for presentation
- present the action plan to the system where the problem exists
- sell the action plan
- introduce the plan into the system
- monitor, improve, alter as necessary
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