7-Hats Innovation In 7-Days
Context:
Is your competition over-taking you in Innovation?
Are you struggling to involve your people (especially at grass-root level) in ‘out-of-box’ thinking?
Do you want to make it easy to involve them daily in innovation?
Do you want to get rid of the dilemma of aligning various Improvement initiatives: Innovation Management, Kaizen, Suggestion Schemes, etc.?
Then here is a practical course that will help you answer questions and show you a way to make ‘Innovation Management as a Daily Business' across the company.
Objective: Learn how to incorporate Innovation Implementation into a daily business.
For Whom: Top Management Cross-functional team (who has authority for company-wide changes) must learn-n-lead the process.
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What will you learn? – Contents:
1. What are the various Idea Management Systems?
2. Continuous Improvement, Creativity, Innovation, and Invention - What is the difference?
3. How to engage all employees in innovation?
4. The concept of 'ldea-Factory'. How to manufacture Idea/s and convert them into Innovation/s?
5. Innovation in Products/Services (User Needs), Processes (Technical Feasibility) and Business Models (Viability)
Understand the market/client/technology/commercial-constraints
Observe real people in real situations at Gemba
Visualize new-to-the-world concepts & ultimate customers
Rapidly Prototype: Evaluate & refine prototypes
Implement new concept for commercialization
6. What are the Seven-Steps to the Continuous improvement of corporate creativity and innovation?
7. How to practice corporate creativity and innovation? - The 7-Hat CEDAC Method in brief.
8. A Simple Tool to practice corporate creativity and innovation – MISER, Innovation by 'Free-Engineering', etc.
9. What are the prerequisites to make Innovation as a culture – Innovation as a daily business?
10. What is the roadmap?
Duration: 2-days to 7-days (or more depending upon application level and additional support needed)
Additional Support can be provided for following activities as interventionists.
- Handholding Problem specific Innovation Implementation in Teams.
- Install Enablers / Infrastructure (with Recognition/Visibility mechanism)
- Innovation Management as a Strategy incorporated in Daily Business (Nichijo Kanri)
Methodology (depending upon availability of time and teaching aids): Presentations, Case studies, Exercises, Action-oriented Gemba Kaizen depending upon the proximity of workplace, Group Discussions, etc.
* The key milestones may, however, get reorganized for greater effectiveness.