The college currently offers 3 IKE accredited courses within the Scottish branch of the Institute:-
Innovation for Practitioners Introduction to Innovation
This one day course is appropriate for those from any industry who want the confidence, motivation and ability to drive and encourage innovation. Equipping you with the tools, techniques and practices to implement and accelerate innovation, whilst also acknowledging your organisation's capacity to formulate and implement innovative strategies. The course also helps you understand the interconnectedness of ecosystems that help to define “where to play” to create game-changing opportunities.
You will learn to:-
- Create a common vocabulary for innovation and the principles which underpin it.
- Recognise your disruptive landscape and understand how different types of innovation can respond to these changes.
- Understand how to deploy a systematic “Innovation Process”.
- Gain access to a toolkit designed to help you; identify need, define a problem, generate ideas and develop suitable business models, prototypes and value propositions.
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Certificate of Professionalism in Innovation Practice
This two-day course is appropriate for managers and decision-makers from any industry who want to improve their organisation's capacity to formulate and implement innovative strategies. It is equally suited for professionals from established companies who want to develop new revenue sources or from start-ups launching new offerings.
You will learn to:-
- Develop successful innovation scenarios and build agile innovation initiatives and interventions.
- Create a pro-innovation organisational culture.
- Engage in more effective challenge definition and creative problem-solving activities.
- Understand how to design and manage an innovation process effectively.
- Use tools and techniques to deliver better innovation results.
- Measure and evaluate innovation programmes and interventions.
- Plot your innovation eco-system and its role in identifying growth opportunities.
- Connect innovation initiatives to business strategy.
- Ensure your organisation becomes adaptive and resilient.
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Innovation and Strategy for Business Leaders
This one-day course will inform and shape the design parameters for innovation initiatives to ensure alignment with business strategy. It will support individuals in the leadership, management and governance of innovation within their organisations. Through the use of tools, techniques and examples, participants will understand how to build and validate a new business model, improve organisational readiness to support innovation and create a sustainable innovation capability to drive performance excellence.
You will learn to:-
- Develop and build a resilient, open and adaptive innovation capability.
- Apply experimental thinking to create winning innovation strategies.
- Build, lead and/or influence your ecosystem.
- Scenario plan and develop your future business and operating models.
- Build and sustain a culture of innovation that embraces a growth mindset.
- Improve the level of innovation maturity and pace.
- Develop innovation-horizons and portfolio investment profiles.
- Assemble the building blocks for effective digital transformation.
- Create market advantage through digital transformation and exploitation.
- Assess core innovation competencies.
- Build emerging technologies trend spotting programmes.
- Improve Innovation Governance to enable better and timely decisions.
- Measure progress, impact and value from innovation investments.
- Align and cohere innovation to your business’ values.
- Leverage the new international innovation standards.
Course Dates
- TBC
Contact
For more information about Scottish IKE, please contact - Stuart McDowall - Head of Innovation & STEM