Driving and Supporting Innovation

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In this course, you’ll discover the benefits and importance of innovation for your organisation, develop an innovator’s mindset to generate great ideas, and support and implement them in your organisation.

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours

120 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Driving and Supporting Innovation

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours 120 days’ access
Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Driving and Supporting Innovation

This course is not currently available. To find out more, please get in touch.

This course will enable you to

  • Adopt an innovator’s mindset and contribute to innovative projects
  • Identify different categories of innovation and systematise an innovation process
  • Encourage and support innovation in your organisation
  • Understand a basic innovation process – from evaluating and selecting potential ideas to developing and presenting business cases
  • Recognise the importance of risk and failure when launching innovative projects

About the course

Innovation is all about generating and implementing new ideas – breaking the mould to deliver business success. This course shows you why innovation is important, how to create and select great ideas and how to realise them in your own organisation.

Discover how creativity can grow from crisis and familiarise yourself with the meaning of innovation, explore alternative business models and try out some practical tools for idea generation and risk management. This course will help you develop an innovator’s mindset and contribute and support effective new ideas in your organisation.

Contents

The imperative to innovate

Understanding innovation
Reasons to innovate
Accountants and innovation

Deconstructing innovation

Different innovations
The innovation compass
Sources of innovation
Finding opportunities

The innovator mindset

Skills for innovators
Expansive thinking
Horizon scanning
Innovation or invention?

Supporting innovation

Supporting innovation
Encouraging innovation
Developing creative environments
Innovation hubs

From ideas to action

Scoping
Choosing the right ideas
Adopting a lean approach
Winning support
The business case

Implementing the new

Success factors
Minimising risk
Assessing risks
Dealing with failure
Innovation accounting

How it works

Author

Anna Faherty

Writer, lecturer and consultant working across the publishing, museum and charity sectors.