Who is the course for

This course is designed for

• Senior Personnel planning innovation activities
• Management Product Managers
• Quality Managers
• Product Engineers
• Design and Quality Engineers.

Learning outcomes

• Understand in depth innovation activities including development of journey road map
• Understand challenges and pitfalls in the journey

Course Content

Module 1  :  Innovation process review

Module 2 :   Creativity and tools for same –

• Lateral Thinking – De Bono
• Design thinking – Empathise, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test
• Other creativity Models- Convergence/Divergence, Chaos Theory, St Gallen, Stanford , Six Thinking Hats, etc
• Intrinsic and Extrinsic Creativity Motivation

Module 3 : Strategic approach to Innovation process and development of journey road map- PDCA

• Blue Ocean Strategy, Danish Design Ladder, Ansoff Matrix
• Innovation Ambition Matrix, Configuration, Offering and Experience,
• Competitive Intelligence, Jugaad Innovation

Module 4: Importance of Feasibility analysis – Payback, NPV and Regulatory review if applicable

Module 5 :  Importance of Intellectual Property in Innovation

Module 6:   Phase management

• Concept phase
• Feasibility Phase
• Execution Phase
• Conclusion phase

Module 7: Decision Agreements- Innovation inputs

• Product performance spec
• Labelling
• Patents
• Process Design
• Prototype development
• Risk analysis and management
• Functional testing
• And do innovation outputs meet innovation inputs

Module 8: Innovation Change management Control

Module 9 : Challenges/Pitfalls in the innovation journey