Course description
As we live in a fast-paced world that is in constant flux, adapting to innovations is what will make an organization more flexible. Being flexible will ultimately lead to greater chances of overcoming competition and survival. If innovations are not continuously updated, they run the risk of no longer being relevant.
Continuous innovation is when a company makes a constant improvement to the products, services, or technologies that they are responsible for.
Executives and other business leaders must be constantly on the lookout for new ways of doing business, improving processes, innovating products and services, and creating novel organisational solutions. It is needed in an increasingly competitive business environment.
Continuous Innovation and Process Development Training course is designed to expose the participants to the required skills and techniques identifying and implementing innovative ideas, as well as process improvement.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Continuous Innovation and Process Development Training course is suitable for:
- Line and functional managers, professionals responsible for strategy, marketing, business development, operations,
- HR, product development, and other functional departments within businesses and other organisations
- Intermediate and advanced level managers, team leaders and supervisors within all sectors, private and public, profit and not-for-profit
Outcome / Qualification etc.
At the end of this continuous Innovation and Process Development Training course , Participant will be able to :
- Appreciate continuous improvement and innovation
- Know how to develop new growth strategies and innovation
- Understand the best strategies to apply for attaining high performance in their organisations
- Understand how to retain existing businesses and clients, and prospect for new businesses, clients and markets
- Be able to lead internal teams and manage relationships across organisational boundaries.
- Learn skills, knowledge and attitudes to plan, organize, conduct, control, and evaluate planned, deliberate change based on continuous process and product improvements
- Learn skills to search for changes in the external and internal business environments with a view to finding opportunities for performance improvement or innovation
- Understand and apply the full process of continuous improvement and innovation
- Appreciate leadership, focus, learning, trial and error, and adjustment
Training Course Content
Day 1
Introduction to Continuous Innovation and Process Improvement
- How change and learning occur
- The competitive and strategic advantages of continuous improvement and innovation
- Problem-solving vs. performance-improvement vs. innovation
- Innovation and creativity
- Sources of change in the external and internal environments
- Deming continuous improvement cycle: Plan, Do, Check, Act
Day 2
Problem analysis and targeted improvement and innovation (The Plan stage)
- Approaches to problem identification and analysis: problem space definition, root-cause analysis, problem tree analysis
- Incremental vs. radical change
- Value chain analysis and process mapping
- Opportunity search and idea generation for innovation
- Brainstorming and idea mapping
- Lateral thinking and creativity
Day 3
Developing and implementing changes and improvements (The Do stage )
- Goal setting and prioritization
- Deliberate vs. experimental approaches
- Formalizing trial and error methods for continuous improvement and innovation
- Planning for implementation
- Organizing for implementation
- Test phases and pilot projects
Day 4
Evaluating initiatives and deciding on project continuation (The Check stage )
- Progress review structures and processes
- Description and reporting of results
- After-action review and lessons learned processes
- Performance metrics and measurement
- Evaluating and comparing results
- Maintaining focus on objectives and outcomes
Day 5
Reacting, adjusting, and standardization(The Act stage )
- Go/no go and resource decisions
- Dealing with the unexpected and obstacles
- Dealing with extreme failure or success
- Standardization and full-scale rollout of improvements and innovations
- Setting the example and leading the charge
- Motivation and morale in a world of constant and never-ending change
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