Facilitating New Product Discovery Training
Innovation Project Design and Focused Innovation Technique™
New Product Discovery Facilitator Training will be an intense, 2½ day workshop designed to help each participant identify triggers for innovation and design an approach for their specific challenge. The Innovation Project Design and Focused Innovation Technique (F.I.T.) training brings together a small group of about seven to ten people from your company or several companies for 2½ days of experiential learning. The Focused Innovation Technique is a proven ten-step process for facilitating creative problem solving and idea generation targeted at new product concept creation. The F.I.T. encourages groups to be creative while building on each other’s expertise in a high-energy process that promotes team spirit and the alignment necessary to support implementing the results. Innovation Project Design helps you to target the right challenges in the right way.
This highly interactive course features hours of personalized practice and coaching, with individual and group exercises, group simulation, excursions and video practice sessions. An extensive set of training materials is provided to facilitate learning and serves as a reference when participants take what they have learned back to their own places of work.
In Innovation Project Design participants learn:
- How to structure a planning and chartering process
- The structure of incremental discovery versus blue ocean discovery
- Structure an innovation team (consumer and expert participation)
- Analytic tools such as the Morphological Analysis
- Decision support processes
- Special challenges in innovation like positioning and naming
- Organizational elegance – re-entry, bringing an idea back into the business
In the Focused Innovation Technique participants will learn to:
- Encourage creativity in the problem-solving process
- Become aware of group process, habits and challenges
- Promote group inventiveness and initiative
- Lead the F.I.T. process for creative problem-solving with teams
- Moving ideas to action
Course Information
When:June 27, 28, and 29, 2012—8:30am-4:30pm on the 11th & 12th, 8:30am to Noon on the 13th (Please plan to arrive by 8:15am)
Where: Innovation Focus Inc. offices
111 East Chestnut Street
Lancaster, PA 17602
Primary Instructor: Christopher W. Miller, Ph.D.
Cost: Starting at $1395 per person (cost includes New Product Concepts workbook, Concepts in Naming workbook and other materials written materials and books)
How to Register: Contact Jen Arnold, Project Manager at 717-394-2500 ext. 43 or as soon as possible or at least five days before the course to reserve your spot. Please mention how you were referred to our program.