Overview
Our academic and professional work environments lay a lot of emphasis on developing soft-skills and technical skills to make for better professionals. Innovative thinking skills has however, not received the same attention of management till the recent past.
The market pressure to differentiate and generate revenues has created an industry need to teach and develop the core skills of innovators that would enable professionals to develop out-of-the-box thinking.
Random idea generation through brainstorming is being replaced with the systematic approach to innovative thinking.The innovative thinking requires the mastery of specific skills applied in a systematic manner.
Participants will be introduced to the 7-core skills of innovators and the systematic process based on TRIZ for generating innovative ideas to resolve tricky business situations.
Benefits
The webinar will help the participants to understand and appreciate:
- The psychological traps that constrain inventive thinking
- The need for systematic innovation
- The five stages of moving from ideation to innovation
- The seven core skills of innovators
Webinar Outline
The webinar would cover the following topics:
- Ideation, Invention, Innovation (5 minutes)
- Systematic Innovation (4 minutes)
- Types of creative problems faced by Innovators (5 minutes)
- Overview of 7-core skills of innovators with examples(15 minutes)
- QAI’s portfolio of Innovation programs(1 minute)
- Q&A (10 minutes)
Audience
This webinar would be useful for:
- Middle to senior management
- Innovation department professionals
- Business Excellence professionals
- Continuous improvement professionals
- HR and L&D professionals
Pre-requisites:
- Understanding of business challenges and experience of resolving them
Suggested Pre-Readings: