Implementing Creative and Innovative Ideas


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Target Audience
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Overview/Description
A creative idea only truly becomes an innovation when it is implemented successfully in the organization. After all, what's an idea without execution? Execution is crucial if the idea is to start making or saving money. The process of implementing creative ideas is what makes great ideas become brilliant ideas. But this success is never immediate. On the contrary, even the greatest ideas demand careful management of the implementation process. Prototypes may be developed before stakeholder approval can be secured. The right skills will also be vital to maintain momentum and prevent inertia, to coax and assure the team, and to lead the idea to success, ensuring it reaches its true potential. During this course, you'll find out how to manage the entire implementation process: from prototyping and gaining stakeholder approval to maintaining momentum and enthusiasm. Leading the team through this challenge will also be vital. You'll learn more about how to complete the creative cycle: how to secure buy-in and managing the launch, what to do with old ideas, and how to maintain creative momentum in the future.

Target Audience
This course is geared toward anyone who wants to be more creative and innovative at work. This includes team members and team leaders as well as those recently appointed to roles with responsibility for innovation, such as innovation directors, product development managers, and R & D specialists.

Expected Duration (hours)
5.0

Lesson Objectives

Managing Idea Implementation

  • recognize the benefits of correctly managing the implementation of creative and innovative ideas.
  • distinguish between effective and ineffective strategies for gaining stakeholder approval.
  • use an appropriate strategy when gaining stakeholder approval for creative or innovative ideas.
  • distinguish between the key leadership styles that are adopted when managing creative or innovative teams.
  • adopt an appropriate leadership style to implement creative ideas or innovations.
  • identify methods for overcoming "split inventor syndrome".
  • Moving Forward with Creative and Innovative Projects

  • recognize the benefits of dealing effectively with problems during creative projects.
  • distinguish between successful and unsuccessful strategies for dealing with inertia.
  • analyze the effectiveness of a given strategy for overcoming inertia in a specific creative project.
  • assess the effectiveness of a given strategy for overcoming sabotage in a specific creative project.
  • analyze the effectiveness of a given strategy for helping an individual comes to terms with an unworkable idea.
  • Completing the Creative Cycle

  • recognize the value of completing the creative cycle.
  • distinguish between successful and unsuccessful strategies for managing the launch of creative projects.
  • analyze the success of a strategy adopted for managing the launch of a hypothetical innovation.
  • identify appropriate actions to take with old ideas.
  • empower others to innovate in a fictitious organization in a given scenario.
  • Course Number:
    PD0034