During this session, insights into the real world of innovation will be shared - not just what the text books say. A roadmap for planning and implementing an innovation agenda for your company including:

• How to create the awareness necessary to get started.
• Assessing the current state and gaps in your organization's current approach to innovation.
• How to determine the best approach for your company going forward.
• Introduction to establishing an implementation framework.

This session will also incorporate deep dive discussions on these critical topics:

• Team Dynamics for Building the Most Productive Teams
  Improve team dynamics by understanding how personal style impacts performance.
• Techniques for Accelerating Innovation
  Gain new tools for ideation, selection, prioritization and implementation that will ensure your success at every phase.
• Methods for Portfolio Identification and Management
  Discover how to build an innovation pipeline that sustains and evolves your business.
• How to Leverage the Power of Open Innovation
  Methods for building innovative capability using the power of the market.

Join David Silverstein (BMGI's CEO) and Dr. Phil Samuel (BMGI's Chief Innovation Officer), authors of the recently published and bestselling book, "The Innovator's Toolkit," at this one day seminar. They will share their expertise and help you make innovation an everyday event, giving you:

• Insights into how the best-run organizations have developed sustainable and systematic approaches to innovation.
• A roadmap for innovation, and an introduction to many of the specific tools of innovation.
• Ways to identify innovators hidden inside your organization.
• Approaches for overcoming obstacles to innovation and for driving a cultural transformation that unleashes your innovation potential.
• The link between innovation and other approaches to problem solving such as Lean Six Sigma.

The Innovation Tools course follows a structured innovation methodology, D4, which includes the phases of Define, Discover, Develop and Demonstrate. The D4 roadmap helps you identify unmet customer needs, generate ideas to fulfill those needs, analyze the most promising solutions, and test the end product/process. The result is a solid, repeatable and predictable process for innovating new products, processes and business models. Innovation Tools teaches proven techniques that can be incorporated into Lean Six Sigma or other improvement methodologies, or used solely in an innovation context. Techniques include:

• Jobs To Be Done
• Outcome Expectations
• Ideal Innovation (Value Quotient)
• KAI (Kirton Adaption Innovation)
• Job Scoping
• Nine Windows
• Resource Optimization
• Random Stimulus
• Imaginary Brainstorming
• Structured Abstraction
• Concept Tree
• Six Thinking Hats
• Function Structure
• TILMAG
• Morphological Matrix
• Mistake Proofing
• Prototyping & Piloting

This course offers the opportunity to work on a real business issue with guidance from the innovation experts behind The Innovator's Toolkit: 50+ Techniques for Predictable and Sustainable Organic Growth (Wiley, Oct. 2008). As a participant, you learn a unique, systematic approach to innovation that offers a clear roadmap for organic business growth through innovation.

Course Length: Five (5) consecutive days (36 hours of instruction).
Course Includes: Complimentary copy of InSourcing Innovation, an introduction to the TRIZ innovation methodology.

TRIZ is a powerful business tool for solving complex business and innovation problems. TRIZ, which is the Russian acronym for the "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving," is a structured approach to problem solving based on scientific process. The result is the ability to generate more solutions of a higher quality in less time. This course offers an intensive introduction to the foundational elements of TRIZ. The curriculum covers the three basic tenets upon which TRIZ was built: the concept of the Ideal Final Result (IFR), which suggests that systems evolve to perfection; the use of resources to maximize effectiveness within a system; and the idea of contradiction elimination as the primary evolution driver. During the course, you gain an understanding of these primary tenets and how to use them to solve problems quickly and innovatively, topics include:

• What TRIZ is and how it works as a robust problem solving methodology.
• What the various levels of innovation and their importance to TRIZ.
• How psychological inertia can affect problem solving.
• How to identify and define problems in terms of contradictions.
• How to successfully solve problems using the Contradiction Matrix Theory, Separation Principles, and the System Approach.
• How to create a function model of a system to identify contradictions and resolve them.
• How to use Palovinkin's Heuristics.

How to use key TRIZ concepts, including:

• Zones of Conflict
• Functional Analysis
• System Constraints
• The Ideal Final Result & Ideality
• Utilization of Resources

Introduction to Innovation
In this introductory course, you will learn why innovation is critical to the long-term success of your business. You will also learn the key principles of innovation and how they work with existing process improvement programs. You will learn how to identify and understand the jobs your customers want done, as well as a process to articulate those desires.

Outcome Expectations
Outcome Expectations are the expectations that surround an innovation Job To Be Done. In this course, you will learn how to identify the Outcome Expectations for a specific Job To Be Done, how to measure importance and satisfaction for Outcome Expectations and how to calculate and prioritize new opportunities that are the result of understanding Outcome Expectations.

Provocation and Movement
Provocation and Movement is designed to shock people out of their standard pattern of thinking. This course will demonstrate the Provocation and Movement techniques and provide the steps necessary to conduct them within a team.

Brainstorming Techniques
Brainstorming is one of the key tools used to generate ideas and solutions. In this course, you will learn about six types of Brainstorming Techniques: Imaginary Brainstorming, HIT Matrix, Concept Tree, SCAMPER, Brain writing 6-3-5 and Random Stimulus.