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Innovation Process and Method

Chris Bujak • April 22, 2021
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Innovation can be transforming - It can create sizable results for customers and stakeholders and even fun for the team! Unfortunately, a significant number of innovation attempts fail (reported failure rates of 30% to 80%). 
Fortunately, lessons have been learned from the success and failures for others to benefit. This course focuses on the Innovation process and the utilization of improvement methods to create new and innovative products, services, and processes.

Goal of Innovation:

To increase knowledge and skills in the application of the innovation process and its methods so that organizational performance is improved

  • Provide new or advanced customer-desired services and outcomes.
  • Increase process and program efficiency.
  • Generate more revenue.

Benefits:

  • A product, process, system, or service transformed with immediate and long term impact and benefits.
  • Innovation that sticks!
  • Increased number of new, high quality ideas, efficient implementation, and better, sustainable solutions.
  • Ability to continue applying the process, methods, and skills to create more innovation.
  • Use of additional methods and techniques to improve teams and the organization’s performance
  • One year CI Community of Practice membership.

Agenda: 

Training: 24 hours of education and application. Participants bring a scenario to class on which to focus and practice.

Application and Coaching: 3-5 days of on-site event co-lead. One-on-one coaching until

results are achieved.

Certification: Participation in this course and completion of 1 project = Continuous Improvement Innovation Black Belt

CERTIFICATION.

24 hours Training
1.    WHAT is the Innovation process, WHY is it important, and HOW it fits with continual improvement
2.    WHEN to use the Innovation process and supporting improvement methods
3.    HOW to lead innovation process
•  Prepare the team and the organization for the change
•  Target the innovation scope with customer, opportunity, and emerging technology data
•  Identify and mitigate critical success factors
•  Effectively manage the resulting changes
•  Generate ideas, evaluate, and select innovations
•  Develop innovative products, services, and processes
•  Test innovation
•  Learn from the testing and adjust
•  Create and Install new standardized work, training, and rollout
•  Understand Replication opportunities & strategies to share
3-5 Days on-site with the team
On-site Innovation Generating, Developing, with coach as a co-lead (real, immediate application)
Coaching calls with the team &/or Champion
Help with applying the innovation process step by step.
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