Course Overview
Fundamentals of Systematic Innovation is a two-day seminar that utilizes the FreeZone Innovation technique to focus on cultivating breakthrough ideas by using a proven yet simple systematic technique. The course educates participants in techniques to overcome workplace innovation challenges and harness an organization's creativity. This seminar builds skills through hands-on experience and gives participants the opportunity to develop their own expertise through various innovation techniques and practices.

FreeZone Innovation is a skills and facilitation technique developed in 1997 by Dr. Chuck Kepner, world renowned process and decision making expert and author of The Rational Manager - Managing Beyond the Ordinary, and Innovation: The FreeZone Experience. FreeZone Innovation focuses on cultivating breakthrough ideas by using a proven yet simple systematic technique. This process is used by a wide range of organizations globally, from large companies such as Cadbury Schweppes to non-profit educational institutions. Read More.

Who Should Attend
This seminar is ideally suited to project managers and other IT professionals wanting to develop more innovative ideas, solutions and decisions at work.

Benefits and Learning Objectives
Participants will learn how to be more effective and efficient innovators through a systematic approach. By utilizing Freezone Innovation, teams can improve the logic in their thinking; learn to quickly identify, describe, analyze and resolve problem situations; become more adept at gaining buy-in for their decisions, especially those made about uncertain future situations; and develop more thoughtful solutions which are supported and committed to by all involved stakeholders.

Learning topics include:

• The 5-phase FreeZone Innovation Model:
  • Set the Task.
  • Situation Assessment.
  • FreeZone Thinking.
  • Viability Assessment.
  • Streamline the Solution
• The innovation techniques used in each phase of the FreeZone Innovation Model
• Skills that turn ideas into practical innovations
• Collaborating with stakeholders in the innovation process
• Creating conditions to promote innovative insights.
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Read the Instructor Bio: Ingrid Hogervorst.

Other courses led by this instructor:

• Accelerating Operational Improvement Initiatives

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January 24-25           Vancouver, BC               $1095 CAD   Register

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