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Innovation and Design Tools
You can’t innovate without the proper framework and tools

What you will learn

Overview 

Unlike most creativity courses that focus only on idea generation and design courses that focus only on refining existing ideas, this course teaches you a diverse set of tools within a complete roadmap that takes you from problem identification to ideation to implementation to commercialization.

BMGI’s Innovation and Design Tools course follows a systematic innovation roadmap, D4 (Define, Discover, Develop and Demonstrate), shown below. D4 helps you identify unmet customer needs, generate ideas to fulfill those needs, analyze the most promising solutions and test the end product/process. It enables you to do this within a purely innovation context, or as an enabler to your Lean Six Sigma program or project.

D4 Pipeline

This course offers you 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). As a participant, you’ll learn the authors’ unique approach for innovating and designing new products, processes and business models.

Techniques learned and applied in this course include but are not limited to:

Define Discover Develop Demonstrate
Jobs To Be Done Resource Optimization Function Structure Mistake Proofing
Outcome Expectations Random Stimulus TILMAG Prototyping & Piloting
Ideal Innovation Imaginary Brainstorming Morphological Matrix  
Job Scoping Structured Abstraction    
Kirton Adaption Innovation Concept Tree    
Nine Windows Six Thinking Hats    
Learning Objectives 

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Solve business problems using a variety of innovation and design tools.
  • Understand how the outputs of some tools flow as inputs into other tools along the chain of innovation and design.
  • Identify unarticulated customer needs and get to the heart of your innovation and design dilemmas.
  • Discover alternative solutions using innovative problem-solving tools.
  • Develop ideas into solutions and demonstrate success with prototyping and piloting.
  • Apply a roadmap for innovation and design to solve business problems with measurable success.

How you will learn

Classroom 

You’ll learn Innovation and Design tools in a focused workshop environment—complete with interactive lecture, practice exercises for each and every tool, enlightening simulations and individualized mentoring on your real problems and challenges.

Like all BMGI courses, this course has a hands-on, applied focus. You’ll practice solving mini problems and case studies throughout the five days, repeatedly, with your instructor’s guidance. Then, at the end of the course, you’ll solve a bigger problem, enabling you to apply the full spectrum of thinking and tools across the D4 innovation-design continuum.

BMGI expert instructors are interesting and engaging, transferring knowledge from a thorough and deep set of course content. Although this course has a standard curriculum, instructors will deviate from designated topics when necessary to meet the individual needs of participants (with respect to their various industry types and working environments).

Further, participants spend portions of the workshop sharing their unique perspectives, problems, projects and best practices. Such peer-to-peer learning enables students to extract even more value from the experience.

Course Length: 
5 consecutive days
36 hours of instruction
Classroom Cost: 

$ 2,745

€ 3,267

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Free problem solving resources

Job to be Done
Mistake Proofing

Appropriate for

Anyone who needs an innovative approach to problem-solving—or to new product, process or service design.
Expert problem solvers and Lean Six Sigma practitioners who desire more knowledge, skills and tools.
Candidates enrolled in BMGI’s Master Black Belt program.
Professionals in R&D, product development, product management and marketing.

Course at a Glance

 

Prerequisites

Classroom:

Pre-class reading assignment

Course Length

Classroom:
5 consecutive days
36 hours of instruction

Cost

Classroom:

$ 2,745

€ 3,267

:

Credits

Classroom: 3.6 CEUs

Course includes

  • Copy of The Innovator’s Toolkit: 50+ Techniques for Predictable and Sustainable Organic Growth (Wiley, Oct. 2008), by BMGI’s David Silverstein and Phil Samuel.
  • Copy of Insourcing Innovation: How to Achieve Competitive Excellence Using TRIZ, by BMGI’s David Silverstein and Phil Samuel.