Building Your Innovation Skills

In this course, you’ll get a comprehensive, step-by-step overview of what innovation really is, learn how you’re capable of innovating to drive change at work and at home, and discover how you can leverage the power of the five-step innovation process to diagnose, dream, prototype, test, and implement an innovation of your own. Along the way, boost your skills and become an innovator by innovating every day.

Learning objectives

[]Define the concept of innovation and differentiate it from common misconceptions.
[]Identify the key characteristics of innovators and innovative companies.
[]Analyze the root causes of problems to find innovative solutions.
[]Apply the innovation process (diagnose, dream, prototype, test, implement) to real-world problems.
[]Explain the importance of creativity in the innovation process and how it fuels idea generation.
[]Evaluate ideas using tools such as the impact-effort matrix to prioritize solutions.
[]Demonstrate the ability to create both low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes.
[]Conduct tests of prototypes to gather feedback and iterate on solutions.
[]Develop action plans to implement innovative solutions effectively.
[]Assess the impact of innovation in reducing risks and countering industry disruptions.
[]Empower yourself to believe you have the potential to be an innovator.

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