Deeply allied to our Management Practice, we offer a broad series of professional training courses relating to strategic innovation and growth. Each of these brings a particular aspect of strategic innovation into the classroom and therein delivers actionable insights that your organization can use throughout its work.
Each of our courses is designed for a specific target audience — generally either senior executives, directors & managers, innovation specialists, or frontline staff.
Where desired, any of our courses can be customized to meet the unique needs or your organization.
At the conclusion of each course, participants are issued a certificate of completion for that course.
In addition to our seven signature courses listed below, we also offer the exam preparation courses associated with the GInI – Global Innovation Institute – professional certification program. If, following one of those courses, participants wish to take the associated certifying exam, they can become officially certified in the corresponding professional certification.
This course presents in-depth insights into the tools of growth and how to leverage those to achieve targeted short, medium, and long term strategic growth objectives. The course uses our proprietary GR5 Growth Strategy Playbook to illustrate how that growth pathways can be used to strategize new hunting grounds, while a portfolio of growth vehicles can be leveraged to drive growth along any number of specific pathways across all three strategic horizons.
Workshop Compliment: Executive Strategy Lab
This course teaches in-depth insights into how to make Strategic Innovation an ongoing core competency inside your organization for driving sustained business growth over the long term. The course uses our proprietary Responsive IE and Market Stream IM frameworks to present the 21 elements of Corporate Innovation and the six stages of Innovation Management. A clear explanation is made of how these all fit together to create a functioning, living environment for creative innovation and growth — one where a well–oiled flow of high–caliber new ideas continually makes it into the marketplace and has an impact on the organization and its markets.
This course teaches in-depth insights into the role and significance of Workplace Experience in creating the necessary environments and mechanisms to foster and sustain innovation, growth, and market leadership in the current age. The course teaches our proprietary XWP Framework as the means of thinking about the three mandates needed to create workplaces that engage the newest generations of workers. These mandates will stretch your organization and force it to completely rethink how it engages, rewards, and retains its ‘participants’ — turning 100+ years of ‘modern management’ on its head.
This course teaches in-depth and engaging insights into the subject of Design Thinking and Human Centered Design, together with their practical uses and applications. The course is both broad and deep. It walks participants through the core philosophies and principles of Human Centered Design, and then – very importantly – shows them how to use the Design Thinking Process to empathically understand needs and opportunities, and then conceive and validate the best possible solutions for those needs and opportunities. The course further introduces participants to a broad array of Design Methods and explains which of those Methods are best suited to each phase of the Design Thinking Process.
Workshop Compliments: Strategic Inquiry / Design Methods Workshop
This course teaches in-depth insights into a novel process for breakthrough New Product Development (NPD) — leveraging eight phases of insight, strategy, design, and development to deliver innovative new products and services that significantly raise the bar on the value being delivered. The course uses our proprietary Emergent NPD Process to demonstrate how that when the right steps are woven into New Product Development, the process itself can become an engine of innovation, significantly increasing the chances of market success from new offerings and new brands, and over time building out a portfolio of market–leading products and services.
Workshop Compliment: Product & Service Concepting Workshop
This course teaches in-depth insights into how to use a defined framework for reexamining fundamental market needs, critically examining how your organization delivers its value, and then conceiving and designing a substantially new and different business model that works very differently — turning your industry on its head and potentially disrupting one or more of its markets. The course uses our proprietary Future Lens Business Model Innovation Framework as the key framework for deconstructing and reconstructing business models, the Legacy Innovation Business Model Canvas as a tool for quickly mapping out potential new business models, and our proprietary FB/IM methodology as the tool for critical inquiry around your markets.
Workshop Compliment: Business Model Expedition
This course teaches in-depth insights into the process for defining, building, launching, and scaling successful new high–growth business ventures. The course walks participants through the detailed step-by-step process used to orient the new venture, find its problem worth solving and unique value proposition, get it funded, and then launch it through iterative rounds of validated learning cycles — all so that ultimately it can scale up through various rounds of financing. Whether independent startup founders, intrapreneurs inside an established business organization, or managers of incubators and accelerators, this course is invaluable in knowing how to methodically succeed with new business ventures.
Workshop Compliments: Strategic Inquiry / Business Model Expedition
In addition to our seven signature courses, we also deliver the exam preparation courses for the professional certification program of Global Innovation Institute — GInI. Following each course, participants can take the associated certifying exam to become officially certified by GInI.
The primary GInI certifications include:
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