Innovation and Creativity
There is a tremendous need for organizations to embrace innovation and imagination as a competitive advantage. This course will provide managers with a solid understanding of innovation and creativity as well as their organizational applications. This course will explore the intricacies and methods of knowing how to be innovative and creative in problem-solving. In addition, it will explore the application of both internal and external innovation drivers for organizational success. Attendees will learn tools and techniques on how to use innovation and creativity as a competitive advantage.
Course Objectives
Participants, after completing this course, will:
- Understand what it means to be an innovative and creative thinker
- Understand the benefits and challenges of innovative thinking
- Understand the impact of innovation and creativity on an organization's strategy
- Identify disruptive innovation and the difference between incremental and disruptive change
- Identify mental models / mindsets and the forces of influence of innovative thinking
- Learn idea generating tools and techniques for innovation and creativity for a strategic advantage
- Understand the role of motivation in innovation
- Understand the role of leadership in an innovative organization
- Examine the value of creative thinking and impact of innovation in an organization
- Analyze the benefits of innovation and creative thinking to meet organizational objectives
- Identify internal and external drivers of innovation
- Evaluate the impact of innovation and creativity on business strategies, products, and services
- Look at unique considerations in managing innovation in an organization
- Examine creative intelligence styles and their organizational influence
- Identify phases of innovative process and how they relate to continuous process improvement
Key Topics
- What is a creative thinker?
- Importance of the role of a creative thinker
- Examples of creative thinkers
- Innovation Opportunities
- Benefits of Innovation and Creativity
- Challenges of Innovation and Creativity
- Drivers of Innovation and Creativity (both internal and external)
- Organizational Impact of Innovation
- Unique Management Considerations of Innovation
- Innovative Behavior
- Disruptive Innovations
- Failure Management
- Mental Mindset Models and how they relate to Innovation
- Styles of Creative Intelligence
- Influences of Innovation and Creativity on Organizational Decision-making
- Innovative Teams
- Innovation Ideation
- Innovative Design and Creativity
- Strategic Innovation and Creativity
- Innovative Leadership
- Promoting Innovative Thinking in Organizations
- Adaptive Disconnects of Innovative Thinking and How to Overcome Them
Instructors
MR. KONZEN has over 20 years of leadership and organizational change experience and over 12 years of strategic development with broad experience in all aspects of financial, risk, and knowledge management. Dan has direct experience with strategic corporate governance, financial consulting, litigation and claims management, profitable underwriting, course development, knowledge and learning management, faculty administration, and teaching.
Dan Konzen currently serves as the Chair of Financial Planning and Control at the John Sperling School of Business, University of Phoenix, and has over 90 course approvals in graduate and undergraduate business. Additionally, he serves as adjunct faculty at several other universities with numerous undergraduate and graduate course approvals. During his tenure he has numerous publications and presentations on technology, social change, and personal development.
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