 INNOVATION - FAST COMPANIES WILL WIN
Most organisations now realize that one of the best ways to stay ahead of the competition is not only to react and respond to what your customers want now, but to anticipate your future market, even create it. Innovation is all about foreseeing opportunities in your chosen markets and planning and implementing the necessary changes NOW to create a SUCCESSFUL FUTURE. A future that your competitors aren't thinking about.
Most organizations want to become more innovative (this is the same as "entrepreneurial" ), but what does this actually mean? You don't want your people to be real entrepreneurs, to leave you and set up as competition, do you? Exactly.
In reality innovation is about spotting opportunities in existing markets, and thinking, planning and envisioning far enough ahead that you can create market conditions, not respond to them.
It's about initiative, customer focus. About to start thinking about quality improvement, innovation, new products and services to develop, and in general to take heart in the mission and vision of your company. Innovators can change what most people say cannot be changed: your market. Especially if you help them to understand your vision.
Who Needs Innovation?
Every organisation that has competitors, every organisation that wants to be one step ahead of those competitors. Specifically
-anyone in your sales or marketing divisions
-business leaders who develop strategies that will affect the future of the organization
-without entrepreneurs, no-one will take calculated risks, and you will stand still whilst your competitors move ahead!
What can be Done, Now?
Indigo Sky Training and Development have several solutions that are stand-alone or can be combined and adapted for your business:
-Developing Innovators. A sample course outline below can be delivered to you
-For Senior Leaders. It is all very well having great ideas, but they often lose "sex-appeal" when being cascaded through the organisation. Our trainers and consultants have worked with some of the leading Global Brands in actually getting innovations implemented by securing buy-in from all in the organisation
-Senior Leader Workshops to look at envisioning, communicating a compelling vision that is understood by all, and that all in the organisation are energised by.
-Helping you to spot the "natural" innovators inside your organisation and encourage their contribution in a team environment - this involves using Psychological tools that we are licensed to use
-Helping you build a profile of a "natural" Innovator that can be used in recruitment and selection
In the technical, psychological sense the way they process information allows them to see possibilities in the existing business environment. This is critical for any business wishing to survive and flourish in the long term because it means they will look at a market, or a customer, or a business challenge, and see new opportunities.
In Short
We can take you ahead of your competition, starting today. We can help you create and exploit opportunities you are not seeing today. We can move your customer-facing people from simply "administering processes" as we know they tend to do in our local markets, to taking an active and passionate role in helping get and keep new customers.
Basically, we can add to bottom-line results.
Contact us for an informal discussion, we will provide you with ideas that are, after all, free.
A word about Creativity
Those with a creative mindset are inventors, and produce completely new ideas, without any stimulus from existing situations, products or markets. So all companies need one, other, or both of innovators and creators.
If you are a company that wants to create new markets completely, you need creativity. All of the solutions and suggestions we mention above are relevant here, too.
Two tried-and tested training programmes as part of our overall package:
The Skills of the Entrepreneurial Leader
A two-day seminar Trainer/Facilitator: Alfons Ameel
1.What makes an Entrepreneur
o a definition of Entrepreneur
o characteristics of the successful entrepreneur
o the secret resources of the entrepreneur
2.Mission , Vision & Strategy
o defining vision, mission and strategy
o the mission statement
o the different dimensions of strategy
3.The different stages of Enterprise Growth
o Stage one: chaos & total flexibility
o Stage two: some type of organisation of work
o Stage three: the professional organisation
o Stage four: financial controls are put into place
o Stage five: need to re-focus
o Stage six: new roles in the organisation
o Stage seven: continuous change and transformation
4.Defining Core Business Activities
o the external environment: trends- global, industry, local
o the internal strength & weaknesses
o barriers to success and key success factors
5.The Entrepreneur and Networking
o creating the network
o working and sustaining the network
6.How an Entrepreneur develops Partnerships
o setting up an internal and external structure to make things happen
o managing internal Partnerships
o working with external Partnerships
7.Where to find the Ideas & how to foster the Creativity to further develop the business
o development of new products and services
o the art of the successful Business Model
o creating a Brand
8.Management & Coaching Skills for the Entrepreneur
o Entrepreneur or Intrapreneur?
o the 7 critical Management Skills
o the Entrepreneur as a Coach and a Role Model
9.Find out if you are an Entrepreneur
o self assessment questionnaire
o your action plan to (further) develop you entrepreneur skills
Creativity: Shekhar Varma
This is a one-page overview for managers seeking to improve their creativity and problem solving skills. This overview is a generic offering, a need-based proposal would enable a programme to be delivered specific to your needās and outcomes.
The programme material is based upon solid theory taken from the work of Peter Russell, Tony Buzan, Geof Cox and Roger Evans. All of who are celebrated authors in this field.
The programme is largely experiential and seeks to give delegates opportunities to practice and plan not just listen.
The Programme
The appropriateness of Creativity
Defining creativity - when to be creative and when not!
Creativity as a process not an event
Preparation ā frustration ā incubation - resolution ā testing/ implementation.
The creative brain
Mindset, challenging the way we look at the world.
Left brain right brain working in harmony.
Stress ā how it helps and hinders our creative drive.
The myth of the creative type.
Methods of creativity
Letting go.
Brainstorming
Problem-solving
None connectiveness
Brain mapping
Dreaming
Planning for creativity
applications back in the work place
The programme can be run as a one or two day event.
Optimum numbers are 8 to 12 delegates.
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