Innovation Training Brochure

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Build your skills. Build your business.Invest in your future by building the right competencies for you and your business. Our courses help participants anticipate the future, identify business opportunity areas, and apply critical innovation skills and knowledge to their work to get immediate results.

Building a More Innovative Tomorrow | Future Think LLC | 2005–2010 | 242 West 30th Street, New York NY 10001 | 646.257.5737 | www.futurethinkinstitute.com

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futurethink Framework At futurethink, we provide a clear framework for embracing innovation activities, and a clear path for getting them done. Our Innovation Framework is the basis for all our research, tools, and training.

STRaTEGYSet a foundation that defi nes innovation objectives and mobilizes your efforts.

The notion that innovation is serendipitous is dangerously outdated. The secret to success lies in crafting an action-oriented strategy. It means setting a vision for your company to follow, and turning innovation into an expected result, not a lucky one. Innovation should be handled like any business initiative—with an eye on growth, results, and profi t.

IDEaS Develop a stream of diverse, original ideas tied to real business objectives.

In today’s economy, the ability to continually fuel innovation is what separates winning organizations from the rest. Idea generation should be managed, purposeful, and clearly linked to business objectives. Leading innovators succeed by balancing out-of-the-box thinking with sound management principles.

PROCESS Create a streamlined and fl exible approach to shepherd innovative ideas to market.

The reality in every organization is that money is limited. To make sure you’re spending effectively, you must have a streamlined process for innovation. A good process will help to consistently identify your best projects and enable you to move them forward more effectively.

ClImaTEBuild a thriving work environment that drives innovation across your organization.

We live in a world where the new replaces the old very quickly. Only organizations that keep pace with the changing marketplace will be able to stay ahead. So how do the best companies adapt? They maintain a climate in which employees are encouraged to innovate in a continuous and consistent manner. The companies that stay ahead

have made innovation part of their DNA.



1. elearning Courses

Overview: Get learning fl exibility with our online, self-guided courses. These courses teach important foresight & innovation skills, and focus on engaging participants in the tools, techniques, and resources they need to better ‘prepare for the future’ and ‘be more innovative.’ These courses can be taken online at the futurethink Innovation Institute website, or can be integrated into your own Learning Management System to suit your organization’s specifi c needs.

Duration: 15-30 minute rapid learning modules

Includes: Topic Overview; Frameworks; Case Studies & Examples; Quizzes, Exercises, Action Plans & Resources

2. Webinars

Overview: Deep dive into a specifi c foresight or innovation topic with our facilitated webinars. Webinars offer a cost-effective and time-effi cient way to supplement in-classroom learning, especially for geographically dispersed teams. Facilitators walk participants through courses online, guide them through exercises, and conclude with critical learning points and take-aways.

Duration: 60 minutes

Includes: Topic Overview; Frameworks; Case Studies & Examples; Diagnostics, Personalized Action Plans & Resources, Facilitated Q&A

3. Facilitated In-Classroom Courses

Overview: Get hands-on with the topics that challenge you most. These highly-interactive courses provide the tools, techniques, and tactics your people need to quickly identify and capitalize on new opportunities. Leveraging futurethink’s deep catalog of innovation research and tools, these courses focus on the practical, tactical ‘how-to’ learning you need to get results.

Duration: 90 min, ½ day & full-day Rapid Learning Sessions

Includes: Topic Overview; Framework Deep Dive; Industry-specifi c Case Studies & Examples; Diagnostics, 4-5 Custom Exercises, Personalized Action Plans & Next Steps, Facilitated Discussion and Q&A

4. licensing

Many learning organizations and universities license our content and tools to enhance their existing curricula and intranet-based toolkits. Our skill-building tools, idea-generation tools, and program-building tools provide a tested ‘how-to’ learning resource organizations need to make learning stick. Contact us for pricing and a custom toolkit recommendation.

Blended learning approach and deliveryWe realize that teams are busy and geographically-dispersed, making effective learning and collaboration a challenge. That’s why all of our courses are offered in a variety of ways, each incorporating interactivity and expert guidance:

WHO HOWleadership: Sets strategy, controls budget, & drives climate for innovation program or business unit.

Practitioner: Conducts insight research, generates ideas, & drives process & effi ciencies.

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Innovation Courses Innovation Foundation & Mastery

Setting Innovation Strategy, Governance & Metrics

Establishing Proactive Idea Generation Systems

Developing Streamlined, Flexible Processes

Leading a Climate that Embraces Change

Innovation Must-Know Topics and Resources

Innovation Certifi cation






Innovation CoursesINNOVaTION INTRODUCTION & maSTERY‘How-To’ foundational courses that provide an overview on the topics critical for understanding innovation.

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IN101 mastering Innovation: Best Practices and Foundational Techniques to be more InnovativeWhat does it mean to be “innovative”? How do you make your efforts a success? Get a clear defi nition of what innovation is and what it is not; discover the variety of ways leaders innovate; and garner quick tips and tricks to start engaging in innovation right away. Includes an innovation diagnostic tool to gauge your current level of innovation.

Strategic Development & Planning, Creative Problem Solving

IN102 Creative Problem Solving: How to Identify Root Causes, ask Smarter Questions and Better Solve ProblemsToo often, we spend our time trying to answer an innovation problem without really understanding the question we're trying to address in the fi rst place. As a result, resources are wasted and opportunities are missed. This course shows participants how to get to the real root cause of the issues they face and better frame their questions so they can solve them. Learn how other innovative organizations uncover the drivers behind their issues, shape their questions in ways that get better answers, and embrace techniques that make creative problem solving more effective.

Creative Problem Solving, Brainstorming & Ideation

IN103 Quick Win Innovation: How Quick Wins can Translate into Real Success StoriesInnovation doesn’t have to be about the big groundbreaker all the time. Often, it’s the Quick Wins that get you the most progress on your road to success. But what are the Quick Wins leading innovators use to drive internal participation and incremental customer revenue? How can you come up with Quick Win strategies for your own organization? This course will enlighten audiences with the many ways Quick Wins can immediately drive growth in any company.

Creative Problem Solving

IN104 The art and Science of Foresight: How to anticipate the FutureSuccessful organizations not only anticipate the future, but proactively prepare for it. Is your business on top of ‘what’s next’? The best companies avoid ‘ad hoc’ ways of thinking about change and the future, and embrace foresight and planning as a standard business practice. In this session, participants discover how to uncover platforms and opportunities for future growth, how organizations create visions and scenarios for the future, and ways to incorporate scanning techniques to create successful business practices.

Researching, Scanning & Trendspotting, Identifying Growth Opportunities, Strategic Development & Planning

IN105 Where to Find the Future: Killer Resources to Uncover What’s Next Ready to get a sneak peek into the future? This mini-course will help you go deeper than mere fads — helping you to track the fundamental driving forces shaping our world and predict what might happen in the not-so-distant future. We’ll review 18 carefully selected sources to help you discover what lies ahead.

Researching, Scanning & Trendspotting, Brainstorming & Ideation

IN106 manage Risk and anticipate the Unexpected: How to Identify Weak Signals and WildcardsUnexpected events can change the nature of your businesses overnight. Better manage risks by learning how to identify Wildcards (low probability, high impact events) and black swans (deviations from normal experiences) so you can better prepare your business for the unexpected. In this course you’ll discover how to develop contingency plans; explore potential outcomes of sudden, disruptive changes; and learn how to create alternative scenarios so that you are not surprised by these types of shifts.

Researching, Scanning & Trendspotting, Identifying Growth Opportunities, Managing Risk






Innovation CoursesSETTING INNOVaTION STRaTEGYLearn how to set a foundation that defi nes innovation objectives and mobilizes your efforts.


IN211 Defi ning an Innovation Strategy and Vision: How to Create and Communicate a Clear mandate for Innovation in Your OrganizationWhat does innovation mean in your organization? Do you have a vision for where innovation will take you? By reviewing other leading innovator’s strategies, participants of this course will discover how fi nancial metrics aren’t the only thing that matter, that strategies take many forms, and why setting the bar high is critical for success. Learn the importance of setting an innovation strategy and how it drives innovation effectiveness and focus for your efforts.

Strategic Development & Planning, Leadership

IN212 Organizing for Innovation: How to Choose the Right model for Your OrganizationThe best innovators ensure that everyone in the organization knows how innovation efforts are supported and who is in charge of driving innovation forward. How are your innovation efforts currently organized? Are you using a Facilitator Model, Incubation Model, or Hybrid approach? This course teaches the three (3) key governance models leading innovators use, and provides the four (4) key criteria that defi ne a successful governance model: role, location, responsibilities and profi le.

Strategic Development & Planning, Leadership, Innovation Process & Idea Management

IN213 Setting Innovation metrics: How to Select the Best Criteria to measure Your Program’s EffectivenessHow well are you innovating? Setting metrics for your innovation program is perhaps one of the most critical decisions you will make. Metrics help calibrate your efforts and offer a clear path for remedy. You’ll know what’s working in your efforts, what’s not working, and how to modify or tweak your program. This course will share the more than 60+ Input, Development, and Output metrics various innovators use, help you identify the right set of metrics for your organization, and provide you with a tool to get started. Learn which ones to apply to your program in order to better diagnose, track and mobilize your efforts.

Strategic Development & Planning, Measuring & Tracking Results, Leadership

IN214 Envisioning the Future: Three Tools to articulate the Road aheadGet people in the mind of the future. What does it look like? To begin crafting an innovation strategy, it’s important to understand the collective perceptions for where people feel the company should be going, what innovation will do for the company, and why. This course covers an overview of three critical tools that can help you get teams to more easily envision the future of your product, service or business. Techniques reviewed include: One Year From Now, Future 2015, and a Picture of Innovation.

Strategic Development & Planning, Effective Communication, Leadership

FEaTURED COURSE IN311: INNOVaTING IN DIFFICUlT TImESHow to Do more with less In tough business environments the strongest, smartest companies emerge. Will you be one of them? Innovation must be maintained in any economic environment – it’s how you do it that makes all the difference. Winning companies know the tricks and techniques that enable them to work within extreme constraints and still emerge ahead of the pack. Attendees leave this course energized, with an understanding of internal innovations that drive bottom line savings and increase effi ciencies, how to make simple changes that result in big successes, and quick wins that give you traction in times of change.






Innovation CoursesENRICHING IDEa GENERaTIONMove beyond the same old brainstorm to get better ideas. Learn the approaches to develop original concepts tied to real business objectives.


IN120 How to Get Better Ideas: Unique approaches to Fuel New Thinking and Drive Innovation To get winning ideas, you need to do more than create an online suggestion box. How well are you proactively seeking ideas? Are you solving business issues by calling a brainstorming session, or applying a variety of techniques to get better solutions? Learn the importance of proactive idea generation and the fi ve (5) techniques all leading innovators use to continually fi ll their idea pipelines and drive innovation success.

Brainstorming & Ideation, Creative Problem Solving

IN221 The Front End of Innovation: Future-Focused approaches to Identify New areas for GrowthDiscover the future-focused ideation techniques that help you uncover and capitalize on the driving forces that will shape your business in the future.


IN222 The art of Incremental Innovation: Seven methods for Enhancing Existing Offerings and 11 Tactics to Get You StartedOrganizations often overlook a wealth of untapped potential within their existing product or service portfolio. Get new techniques to unlock more value from the offerings you already have – and get new ideas for new businesses in the process.


IN223 Identifying Customer’s Unmet Needs: Go Beyond What Customers Want and address Their Unarticulated NeedsSee how winning innovators develop a deep, intuitive understanding of their customers to leverage their latent needs and turn them into fresh-to-the-market solutions. Learn 10 techniques and ideas to start better understanding your customers, right now.


IN224 Disruptive Innovation: How Challenging assumptions and Breaking Rules can lead to Breakthrough IdeasGroundbreaking ideas come from not being afraid to shake things up and create new industry conventions. Participants of this course learn the art of identifying rules to break, both internally and externally. Discover how other organizations make a practice of breaking rules and questioning the status quo to uncover both simple and broad-reaching ideas for success.


IN225 Partnerships for Innovation Success: leverage Outside Resources to Reduce Risk and accelerate Your EffortsSuccessful innovation involves cross-pollenization and dialogues across business units and with external partners. Discover the dozens of ways organizations break down silos, get rapid input, and learn to share works in progress for better results.

Brainstorming & Ideation, Creative Problem Solving, Collaboration

IN261 Ideation Warm-up Techniques Need to jumpstart your next brainstorm session? Looking for new ways to shake up people's thinking? Learn our top 15 techniques to ignite participation—simple, fun exercises to help participants warm up their minds for innovation.

Brainstorming & Ideation, Teamwork & Collaboration

IN262 Building a Better BrainstormInnovation is about more than coming up with a great idea, it’s also about the conversation surrounding those ideas. When people sit, share, and collaborate, innovation moves forward. It all comes down to the power of meetings and the crucial role that facilitators play to make these innovation-related sessions productive and effective. Learn the pre, during, and post-session best practice for better brainstorm results.

Brainstorming & Ideation, Teamwork & Collaboration, Leadership, Effective Communication

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Innovation CoursesDEVElOPING aN INNOVaTION PROCESSCreate a streamlined and fl exible approach to shepherd innovative ideas to market.


IN130 How to Build a Process for Innovation Bring order, structure and a streamlined approach to your innovation efforts. Discover what it takes to better focus your resources and move forward faster with this innovation process primer.

Idea Evaluation & Selection, Innovation Process & Idea Management

IN231 Establishing Idea Submission Channels: Improve Your Innovation Pipeline by Getting Ideas from more Diverse SourcesGet more ideas, from more people, more places, with more perspectives. Learn how to create a more effective system to capture ideas from a variety of places and sources and channel them to the right destination. More importantly, understand what information to ask for, who should manage the ideas, and how the ideas feed into your overall idea pipeline.

Innovation Process & Idea Management, Teamwork & Collaboration

IN232 Selecting the Right Ideas: How to Create and Use Idea Screeners & Scorecards to make Better DecisionsDo you select ideas using an objective process or an ad hoc one? Are you ensuring that favored ideas measure up to your strategic objectives, and that your selections are well-balanced? Learn the art of idea selection and the critical criteria that make idea selection objective and on-strategy. Discover over 30 evaluation criteria to consider when defi ning what makes a 'good' idea and help inform a go/no-go decision. Participants will create their ultimate idea scorecard during the course.

Idea Evaluation & Selection

IN233 Charting Your Innovation Roadmap: Identify the Phases, People and Deliverables Required to Bring Ideas to marketHow do ideas move forward? How do you know when to invest in an idea, and when to kill it? A well-defi ned roadmap lets you better manage a portfolio of ideas and use limited resources more effectively. Learn the eight areas you must address for an effective innovation process.

Innovation Process & Idea Management

IN234 Innovation Risk management: Balancing your Innovation Portfolio Managing innovation risk is essential. How do you know if you're selecting the right mix of ideas that's right for your business? You need to get a bigger picture of your innovation efforts and ensure that you're funding a mixture of breakthroughs and quick-wins. This course will show the importance of innovating along a continuum, and provide you with a variety of evaluation matrices (2x2s) that leading innovators use. You'll be able to choose the right tool for your organization, optimize the risk across your ideas, and manage a balanced innovation portfolio.

Managing Risk, Innovation Process & Idea Management

IN235 Running an Idea Evaluation SessionSelecting the ‘right’ ideas is a critical part of the innovation process. But how do you create a forum that involves the right people to pick the right ideas? How can you structure a selection meeting that ensures ideas are evaluated objectively? Whether you’re running a one-off evaluation session, or several as a part of an ongoing innovation program, we offer dozens of must-know tips and techniques to ensure a productive and successful idea evaluation session.

Idea Evaluation & Selection, Teamwork & Collaboration, Leadership, Effective Communication






Innovation CoursesFOSTERING aN INNOVaTION ClImaTEBuild a thriving work environment that drives innovation across your organization.


IN140 How to Create a Climate for Innovation: Building a Culture that Fosters Sustainable GrowthA climate of innovation ensures that you'll have the inherent ability to not just innovate with a fl ash of brilliance but be able to innovate continuously. Learn the four key elements involved to create organizational culture and an environment that encourages change.

Culture Building, Leadership, Teamwork & Collaboration

IN241 Effective Innovation leadership: Four approaches to leading Innovation and ChangeTo be successful, innovation must be driven from the top. Learn how leaders actively demonstrate their commitment to change, ignite a passion for fi nding the future, and send a strong signal that innovation is everybody's job.

Leadership, Culture Building

IN242 Defi ne Your Innovation Risk Tolerance: How to Set Boundaries for Smart Risk and ExperimentationManaging risk while driving change is a delicate balance. How do you encourage teams to take smart risks vs. stupid ones? Uncover the methods for defi ning risk and setting boundaries that enable teams to better embrace innovation efforts

Managing Risk, Leadership, Culture Building

IN243 Encouraging Teams to Better Collaborate and Share: Create Better Ideas Faster with a Culture of CooperationSuccessful innovation involves cross-pollenization and dialogues across business units and with external partners. Discover the dozens of ways organizations break down silos, get rapid input, and learn to share works in progress for better results.

Culture Building, Leadership, Teamwork & Collaboration

IN244 Reward and Recognizing for Innovation: How to motivate Your Workforce to Get Better ResultsEmployees are the lifeblood of innovation. Their active participation ensures that innovation doesn’t go through frustrating cycles of fi ts and starts. Rewards and recognition play a critical role in energizing them. But, what’s the right incentive program for them? This course will outline key practices of leading organizations to help you design a robust and methodical rewards and recognition program that will energize your workforce and make your innovation efforts sustainable and organic.

Brainstorming & Ideation, Creative Problem Solving, Collaboration

FEaTURED COURSE IN213: SETTING INNOVaTION mETRICSHow to Select the Best Criteria to measure Your Program’s EffectivenessHow well are you innovating? Setting metrics for your innovation program is perhaps one of the most critical decisions you will make. Metrics help you calibrate your efforts and offer a clear path for remedy. You’ll know what’s working in your efforts, what’s not working, and how to modify or tweak your program. This course will share the more than 60+ Input, Development, and Output metrics various innovators use, help you identify the right set of metrics for your organization, and provide you with a tool to get started. Learn which ones to apply to your program in order to better diagnose, track and mobilize your efforts.






Innovation CoursesINNOVaTION HOT TOPICSTopical courses that provide insights on key topics so you can stay ahead.


IN311 Innovating in Diffi cult Times: How to Do more with less In tough business environments the strongest, smartest companies emerge. Will you be one of them? Innovation must be maintained in any economic environment – it’s how you do it that makes all the difference. Winning companies know the tricks and techniques that enable them to work within extreme constraints and still emerge ahead of the pack. Attendees leave this course energized, with an understanding of internal innovations that drive bottom line savings and increase effi ciencies, how to make simple changes that result in big successes, and quick wins that give you traction in times of change.

Identifying Growth Opportunities, Subject Matter Expertise, Creative Problem Solving

IN313 Building Digital Competency – How Technology is Re-Shaping Workplace Expectations, and making Us more Connected, Transparent, Collaborative and SynchronizedAre you prepared for the new world of work? Competitiveness is increasingly based on our ability to work – and succeed – in a world that is digitally mediated. The enterprise application of the Social Web involves extracting value from networked collaboration. Work in the future will involve Publishing, Sharing (Storing/Sharing Knowledge), and greater degrees of Collaboration and Accountability. This course offers insights on the future of managing relationships, knowledge, workfl ows and ideas — and uncovers what it means for your business.

Subject Matter Expertise, Innovation Process & Idea Management, Culture Building

IN314 Welcome to the Future – a look at People, Technologies and Society in 2012-2019Dispense the ‘hype’ and fi lter out ‘trendy’ information to discover what major forces are really shaping tomorrow. From big business ideas, emerging market conditions and potential events, to scenarios shaped by wildcards, this course will teach you what concepts will be most relevant to your business and industry in the years ahead.

Subject Matter Expertise, Brainstorming & Ideation

IN315 Future of Work: Enhanced Productivity Based on Collaboration, a Global mindset, and Blended WorkforceWhat will 'work' be like in 5 years? 10 years? How will your day-to-day environment be transformed, and how will the overall policies and atmosphere have shifted? Leading organizations are already looking to the future to see where today's trends will impact their business and their productivity in the near-future. Explore the technologies, behaviors, environments and skills organizations are already embracing to prepare for tomorrow.

Subject Matter Expertise, Teamwork & Collaboration

IN316 Future of Talent – and What it means for Your Organization How can you create the best organization to work for? What skill sets, mindsets, and talent development approaches will make you an employer of choice in the years to come? Learn the language, trends and best practices that are shaping how businesses will attract, develop, reward and retain employees in the future.

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Innovation CoursesINNOVaTION TOOl TUTORIalS‘How-to’ guides for understanding groundbreaking innovation tools and techniques.


IN511 What’s Now? What’s Next?Generate ideas – both incremental and groundbreaking – to improve your current products. This ‘how-to’ tutorial helps break a product down into its fi nite parts so that you can focus on individual attributes in greater detail, or recombine some of the current attributes (“what’s now”) in new ways (“what’s next”) to uncover a fresh, innovative solution.

Identifying Growth Opportunities, Problem Solving, Ideation

IN512 Plus 3, minus 3How do you go about improving your current offerings? Which features need to be upgraded, revised or simply eliminated? Deconstructing a product, service, or experience into its many discrete parts lets you more easily distinguish areas for improvement. This tutorial introduces participants to the +3/-3 technique and tool, helping them discover ways to enhance current offerings by refi ning its component parts, or by removing those parts which aren’t working.


IN513 Uncovering New Hunting GroundsToday's leading companies have a holistic view of innovation. To them, innovation means more than just releasing breakthrough products and services – it's any idea that delivers value to businesses and consumers. This idea-generation technique will help you explore eight diverse "hunting grounds" – new, fertile opportunities for your organization.


IN514 40 New Growth Opportunities40 New Opportunities is a problem-solving technique that gives you new ways to look at an innovation challenge. It’s an excellent framework for brainstorming and for getting people to think differently about your existing products or services. 40 New Opportunities is based on a common problem-solving technique called TRIZ. We have taken the key principles of TRIZ and translated them with a business perspective in mind.


FEaTURED COURSE IN232: SElECTING THE RIGHT IDEaSHow to Create and Use Idea Screeners & Scorecards to make Better DecisionsDo you select ideas using an objective process or an ad hoc one? Are you ensuring that favored ideas measure up to your strategic objectives, and that your selections are well-balanced? Learn the art of idea selection and the critical criteria that make idea selection objective and on-strategy. Discover over 30 evaluation criteria to consider when defi ning what makes a ‘good’ idea and help inform a go/no-go decision. Participants will create their ultimate idea scorecard during the course.

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Innovation Certifi cationMastering Innovation Certifi cation Courses: Master the skills that make innovation a disipline

Deep dive into the topics essential to making your business, and yourself, a successful innovator. futurethink’s certifi cation program teaches you the tools, techniques and best practices that make you a true practitioner of innovation.

What it isThrough a series of learning modules, the Mastering Innovation Certifi cation Program dives into the fi ner points of the four (4) core competencies you need for innovation success, derived from futurethink’s Innovation Framework – STRATEGY, IDEAS, PROCESS, and CLIMATE.

What You GetUpon completion of all coursework and exams associated with courses within a certifi cation level, participants will receive both a print and electronic certifi cate of achievement.

Certifi cation is valid for one year from the date you have successfully passed the fi nal exam for a particular certifi cation level. Certifi cations can be renewed annually upon successful completion of the associated fi nal exam and require payment of the level’s certifi cation fee.

How it WorksCertifi cation can be acquired in either an eLearning environment or in-classroom sessions through your organization (up to 25 participants per class). There are four (4) progressive levels of certifi cation offered. Each level builds on the previous one and includes an additional focus around one of the innovation core competencies.

Certifi cation courses can be purchased in stages by level, via upgrades, or in one bundle. Successful completion of the certifi cation courses and their associated exams will achieve a Mastering Innovation Certifi cation for that particular level. Each level is a prerequisite for the one that follows.

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mastering Innovation level I: FOUNDaTIONal / STRaTEGY

7 modules including: Mastering Innovation, key STRATEGY courses, and foundational IDEAS, PROCESS and CLIMATE courses.

COURSES INCLUDED:IN101: Mastering InnovationIN211: Defi ning an Innovation Strategy & VisionIN212: Organizing for InnovationIN213: Setting Innovation MetricsIN120: How to Get Better IdeasIN130: How to Build a Process for InnovationIN140: How to Create a Climate for Innovation

TImE: 4 hours

mastering Innovation level II: IDEaS

12 modules including: all Level I courses plus our IDEAS curriculum.

ADDITIONAL COURSES INCLUDED:IN221: The Front End of InnovationIN222: The Art of Incremental InnovationIN223: Identifying Customer’s Unmet NeedsIN224: Disruptive InnovationIN225: Partnerships for Innovation Success

TImE: 7 hours

mastering Innovation level III: ClImaTE

16 modules: all Level I & II courses plus CLIMATE curriculum.

ADDITIONAL COURSES INCLUDED:IN241: Effective Innovation LeadershipIN242: Defi ne your Innovation Risk-ToleranceIN243: Encouraging Teams to Better Collaborate and ShareIN244: Rewarding and Recognizing Innovation

TImE: 9 hours

mastering Innovation level IV: PROCESS

19 modules: all Level I-III courses plus PROCESS curriculum.

ADDITIONAL COURSES INCLUDED:IN231: Establishing Idea Submission ChannelsIN232: Selecting the Right IdeasIN233: Charting Your Innovation Roadmap

TImE: 11 hours

Contact us to learn more about our certifi cation program: [email protected] or 646.257.5737.


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Innovation Certifi cation

About futurethinkfuturethink enables your company to build innovation capabilities and drive meaningful engagement around innovation. We empower your employees with the skills and knowledge they need to accelerate change, drive growth, and solve the big problems better. Our unique training curriculum, complete with our library of client-tested tools and research, helps you apply science to the art of innovation and achieve measurable results from your efforts.

Our comprehensive curriculum includes: Rapid learning modules that accelerate expertise in 30 minutes or less

Blended learning offering that allows you to choose between eLearning, webinars, and in-classroom workshops

Immersive style with real life examples, interactive tools & workbooks, and results-based assessments

Proven methodology built upon our Strategy-Ideas-Process-Climate framework and client-tested tools

We are the only innovation and foresight experts that specialize in training. Contact us to put our expertise to work for you.

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