Undergraduate Admission
    Graduate Admission

    Business Innovator Training and Certification, SC 824

    About this Course:

    The Business Innovator Training and Certification (BITC) program is designed to provide necessary tools and techniques to participants in order to innovate new solutions and solve problems innovatively. Corporations and organizations need innovation to develop customer-specific solutions on-demand and in real time.

    During the training, participants will learn the Breakthrough Innovation (Brinnovation) framework, and practice the T.E.D.O.C. (Target, Explore, Develop, Optimize, and Commercialize) methodology. The participant will need to pass the Business Innovator Certification test with a score of 70% or higher to become a Certified Business Innovator.

    Prerequisites:

    1. Associates or higher degree of education and at least one year of work experience
    2. Strong communication skills
    3. Signed copy of the "Communication to Innovation" manifesto

    Who Should Attend:
    Any experienced professional with at least one year of work experience who would like to be innovative, or contribute significantly to their employer's success.

    Expected Outcomes:
    For the Participant:

    1. Demonstrate a commitment to innovation, a necessity for continual growth
    2. Provide evidence of competence in innovation knowledge and practice
    3. Become a significant and valued contributor to the organization
    4. Improve employability for high wage jobs
    5. Become a continued learner by maintaining the certification
    For the Organization:
    1. Contribution to sustaining profitable growth
    2. Competent innovators to create customer value on-demand
    3. Recession-proofing business and solving problems creatively
    4. Branding as innovative company
    5. Improved working environment

    Course Outline:
    Training Agenda:

    • Day 1: Introduction to Business Innovation
      1. Class introduction and expectations
      2. Exercise: Diagnostics of innovation
      3. Warm up exercise
      4. History of innovation
      5. Creativity, invention, and innovation
      6. Exercise: Identifying opportunity for innovation
      7. Project: Business Innovation - Define target and conduct research
      8. Conventional tools of creativity
    • Day 2: Understanding Innovation
      1. Exercise: Practicing creativity tools / methods
      2. Innovation in the information age
      3. Exercise: Networking for innovation
      4. Need for innovation on-demand
      5. HBR Case: Real time marketing
      6. Project: Explore the topic and generate innovative ideas
      7. Mind hardware and mental processes for innovation
      8. Exercise: Practicing left and right hemisphere of brain
    • Day 3: Institutionalizing Innovation
      1. Framework for innovation
      2. Exercise: Assessing personal innovation
      3. Room for innovation
      4. Case: Proctor and Gamble
      5. Project: Developing solutions
      6. Innovation deployment
      7. Exercise: Innovation improv
      8. Measures of innovation
    • Day 4 : Making Innovation Work
      1. Exercise: Developing your Business Innovation Index (BIN)
      2. Protecting innovation
      3. Case: Pricing your innovation
      4. Project: Selecting the innovative solution
      5. Commercializing the innovation
      6. Exercise: Developing an elevator pitch
      7. Managing innovation
      8. Developing a draft business plan
    • Day 5: Training and Certification
      1. Project completion and presentation
      2. Course review and test preparation
      3. Certification test (3 hours)
      4. Graduation and celebration

    CEU:
    3.5

    Presented By:
    Praveen Gupta