TURNING IDEAS INTO GOLD - INNOVATION WORKSHOP

Every business begins with a great idea. Depending on your interest, your strengths, and your industry, you can develop your own “how to be my own boss” innovation statements, brainstorm thousands of ideas within minutes, select your best ideas for implementation. With the ability to generate great ideas, you can spawn off more business ideas or solve your business problems effortlessly.

In this fun and highly interactive workshop, you will learn the powerful innovation tools, techniques and templates to generate 1000 ideas within 30 minutes!

Workshop Objectives

At the end of this workshop, the participants will be able to:

• Understand the differences between productivity, creativity and innovation
• Convert ideas killers into ideas growers
• Understand the various phases in the innovation journey
• Utilize the various ideas generation tools, techniques and templates to generate 1000 ideas in 30 minutes
• Systematically select the best of the best ideas out of the 1000 generated
• Present your ideas to your stakeholders and convince them to support / fund you 

Workshop Content 

• Introduction to productivity, creativity and innovation
• My organisation and I
• Exploring opportunities
• Formulation of innovation statements
• Ideas generation techniques
  • Brainwriting, SCAMPER, Related Words
  • Ideas selection technique
    • Perspective-Criteria Matrix
• Incubation technique – P.E.N.S.
• Presentation of ideas
• Prototyping
• Implementation of your innovation project

This workshop is aligned to WSQ Competency Standards: BM-IM-401E-1: Manage innovation in the business function.

Intended Audience:

This is an innovation workshop designed to equip participants with the essential tools, templates and techniques to TURN IDEAS INTO GOLD. It is suitable for business owners who want to grow the business, managers and professionals who seeks better and faster ways of generating innovation ideas, resolving problems and/or optimizing opportunities.

Workshop Methodology

This dynamic highly interactive workshop will be conducted with a good blend of instruction, problem brain-storming, discussions and games. Participants are encouraged to bring their real-life ideas / problems to the class for discussions and ideas generation.

Workshop Duration & Date:

2 days workshop with WSQ Assessments

2016 Dates:

June 4 & 11, 2016

Fees

Fee for Self Sponsored Individual = $470 / participant (before WSQ funding & Skillfuture credit)

Fees for SME = $750 / participant (before WSQ funding)

Trainer:

Conducted by Everest Innovation Pte Ltd, a WSQ Approved Training Organisation (ATO)
UNIT CODE: BM-IM-401E-1
COURSE CODE REF: CRS-Q-0026271-BM