The emphasis of Momentum Innovation Concepts training is providing a grounding in innovation concepts and best practices. It’s normally a one day deep-dive, unless customized. It builds awareness, and boosts capabilities and tools for innovation team leaders. The focus is on the front-end-of-innovation, where challenges are identified, ideas are generated, refined, and pitched to management for further development and resourcing. Two key areas of instruction are project management steps and the “how-to” of innovation facilitation. It also addresses the basics of why innovation is so important to an organization’s survival and growth.

It includes extensive materials (including a shell innovation cycle document), post-session coaching and session design consultation. This is usually a one day course. It can be extended to two days, and would then include more hands on exercises.

The course can accommodate an organization that currently has no structured process or framework. It can also work within an existing frameworks (such as Lean, Agile, CPS, or Design Thinking). The course outline is refined after a client pre-consult.

Momentum Innovation Concepts training includes:

• Approaches to innovation (Design Thinking, Lean, Agile, TRIZ, and blended systems)
  • Why innovation?
  • Innovation culture assessments
    • informal
    • formal
• Getting an innovation initiative started
  • Negotiating a mandate (materials include a shell mandate document)
  • • Typical Innovation Project Cycle (materials include a shell process)
    • Cycle metrics
• Managing innovation projects
  • Innovation team formation
    • Importance of thinking diversity
    • Measuring creative thinking preferences
  • Challenge/Project identification
  • Working with market research and insights
    • Use of stimulus tools and global trends
    • Looking for innovation opportunities in new digital technologies
  • Involving and engaging a wide group (Open innovation concepts and use of Virtual ideation platforms)
  • Ideation sessions (how to plan and execute, also known as “brainstorming”)
    • Tools for problem framing
      • Challenge Mapping
    • Tools and techniques for generating ideas
      • Brain Writing
      • Brain Walking
      • Use of graphical and story-based tools
  • Concept development and writing
    • Story Based tools for narrative development
    • Tools for positive evaluation and idea enhancement with critique
  • Management pitches
    • The keys to getting resources
    • Essentials of a powerful pitch
  • Meeting and workshop facilitation
    • How to up your game over time
    • When and how to use a professional facilitator

Benefits to the Innovation Intensive course:

• Deliberate innovation that produces survival and growth
• Proactive addressing of emerging challenges and opportunities
• More efficient management of innovation projects, including team formation
• Measurable processes and results
• More ideas, better ideas, and tools for amping and refining ideas
• Cost savings by not paying outside consultants to facilitate innovation process
• Hands-on practice of advanced innovation tools and techniques
• How to plan and execute training, ideation, strategy, and brainstorming sessions