INNOVATION MASTERCLASSES BUILD A CULTURE OF INNOVATION

Virtual and On-site, Executive Education Innovation Masterclasses

These intense Innovation Masterclasses cover the essentials of the innovation course taught by Dr. Ricketts at the worlds top universities. Classes are designed for teams and innovators at all levels who are looking to understand innovation and learn specific tools to grow innovation in their organizations and careers.

Attendees should be prepared to have fun and change the way they think!

Masterclasses taught in three formats

In this fast-paced course, you will learn Dr. Ricketts’s process for making innovation an everyday process in your organization.

You will learn the three phases of successful innovative organizations:

Engage – Learn how to engage your organization find new, high impact problems
Build – Learn the foundational steps to being an effective innovator
Execute – Learn the three key strategies that enable organizations to execute innovation

The full-day masterclass takes participants into an interactive experience on how to find new ideas with high-impact, develop those ideas into transformational innovations and then execute on them to deliver business results.

In this one-day course, we work through the following five modules:

Module 1: Innovation Mindset – Learn Foundational Principles and How to Add Innovation to Your Expert Tool Kit
Module 2: Needfinding: Finding High-impact Opportunities
Module 3: Problem Framing: Making Sure You Work on the Right Problems
Module 4: Ideation: What Really Works?
Module 5: Prototptying: Validating and Exploring Ideas

This two-day masterclass takes brings organizations through a deep-dive into innovation with active sessions designed to apply innovations strategies to your organizations actual challenges and opportunites.

In this two-day course, we work through the following modules and interactive sessions:

Day 1:

Module 1: Innovation Mindset – Innovation Mindset – Learn Foundational Principles and How to Add Innovation to Your Expert Tool Kit
Module 2: Needfinding: Finding High-Impact Opportunities
Module 3: Problem Framing: Making Sure You Work on the Right Problems
Module 4: Ideation: What Really Works?
Active Session 1: Put into action new learning for breakthrough ideas using your organization’s challenges & opportunities. This session allows participants to start applying the learning immediately.

Day 2:

Module 5: Prototyping: Validating and Exploring Ideas
Active Session 2: Putting the theory and practice of prototyping to work with your organization. Dr. Ricketts will lead several developmental session on ideas your organization has and co-develop them with your team.
Module 6: Business Model Innovation
Module 7: Executing on Innovation

Your team will take away

An ideation framework that consists of two dozen problem solving approaches
An understanding of how to select and implement the best problem solving approach for their problem
In-depth examples and case studies of several leading problem solving methods
Potential solutions from a live-coaching session with your team working on an actual problem

How to discover and develop high-impact problems
How to align your core strengths with problem selection
How to find the “keystone” problems in your business
How to define and frame problems to maximize solution success
How to continually create new, creative solutions

Ready to elevate the level of innovation at your organization?

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