Innovation and Creativity in Business
Virtual
Develop your staff for product and service innovation.
Your organisation will face the challenge of innovation by introducing creativity to your product and service design. Our 4 modules, each of half day length, will be interactive, engaging and include workshop style training. Our training will create capability to help you innovate rapidly .
Our training is very engaging
This course is ideal for management who want to improve their capability in innovation and creativity to improve their products and services. The course will be delivered in English. The course will teach you:
- The use of contradiction statements to understand issues and opportunities
- The power of collaboration by building on team ideas
- The use of changing context to generate new insight
- Methods to make minds more receptive to new ideas, suggestions and challenges.
The Trainer - Ketan Varia
Ketan Varia is based in the UK and is the director of Kinetik Solutions. He has delivered over 30 change programmes across 5 continents. His experience includes ADP, British Airways, Motorola, Hertz Cars and the Office for National Statistics. Ketan has substantial international experience, including emerging countries of Mauritius and Sri Lanka. He delivered a talk at an international conference in Morocco in 2019 on the subject of Innovation.
Ketan, together with the kinetik team has designed products to aid creativity for organisations including, TRIZ for service improvement, Philosophy for Change Management, and Applied Improv for Business. He has written a book ‘The Art of Transformational Change’, published in 2015, which has received many positive reviews.
Our Method for Training
We use a variety of collaboration tools including Zoom Whiteboards/Breakouts rooms and Miro to facilitate this virtual training.
The training will be highly interactive collaborative style, with opportunities to examine your own product and service issues. Each session will always be fun, creative, and engaging.
Dates & Cost
19-20 March 2025 (2 X 4 hour session)
Virtual via Zoom
Cost: £699 (for 8 hours)
AGENDA
| Session 1 |
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| Objectives and Your Expectations |
| The Mindset of Creativity and Innovation |
| Tool 1: TRIZ for Innovation |
| Breakout: TRIZ with your business challenges |
| Review of Session 1 and Action Plans |
| Session 2 |
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| Recap |
| Breaking Assumption to generate ideas |
| Tool 2: Philosophy for Change in Thinking |
| Breakout: Philosophy for Change in Thinking |
| Review of Session 2 and Action Plans |
| Session 3 |
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| Recap |
| Avoiding common Experience traps |
| Tool 3: Use of Applied Improv for Collaboration |
| Applied Improv with your business challenges (1) |
| Review of Session 3 and Action Plans |
| Session 4 |
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| Recap |
| Applied Improv with your business challenges (2) |
| Tool 4: Use of 6 Thinking Hats |
| Embedding Innovation and Creativity |
| Review of Training and Action Plans |
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Testimonials from our Training
“Really useful tools/models which will assist us in moving the business forward and making a difference.”
UK Asset Management Company
“The sessions are really great and some of the activities really take you out of your comfort zone. The improv session are really worth it and connects you with other like mind individuals. If you haven’t tried it give it ago, you will love it.”
Product Manager and User Experience Expert, Large Telecom Organisation
“Philosophy for change gamification, provide a useful resource which can help a consultant/facilitator to stimulate conversations about the nature and need for change.”
Craig Hamer, Change Consultant