Unlike most creativity courses that focus only on idea generation and design courses that focus only on refining existing ideas, this course teaches you a diverse set of tools within a complete roadmap that takes you from problem identification to ideation to implementation to commercialization.

The Igniting Innovation and Design course follows a systematic innovation roadmap, D4 (Define, Discover, Develop, and Demonstrate) to identify unmet customer needs, generate ideas to fulfill those needs, analyze the most promising solutions, and test the end product/process. It enables you to do this within a purely innovation context, or as an enabler to your Lean Six Sigma program or project.

D4 Pipeline: Define, Discover, Develop, Demonstrate

Techniques learned and applied in this course include but are not limited to:

DEFINE

• Jobs To Be Done
• Outcome Expectations
• Ideal Innovation
• Job Scoping
• Kirton Adaption-Innovation

DISCOVER

• Random Stimulus
• Imaginary Brainstorming
• Structured Abstraction
• Concept Tree

DEVELOP

• OE Analysis
• Offering Refinement

DEMONSTRATE

• Rapid Prototyping 
• Offering Refinement

With a hands-on, applied focus, this course teaches innovation and design tools in a workshop environment—complete with interactive lectures, practice exercises for each tool, simulations, and individualized mentoring on your real problems and challenges. You’ll practice solving mini-problems and case studies throughout the course and apply the full spectrum of thinking and tools to solve a bigger problem toward the end. 

3.2 CEUs are available for this course.

20 PDUs are available for this course.

Innovation Roadmap

• Job to be Done
• Job Scoping

Outcome Expectations

• Cognitive tools
• Resource Optimization

Creative Challenge

• Advanced Brainstorming techniques

Solution Determination

• SConverging and filtering tools

Customer Response and Feedback

• Rapid Prototyping
• Offering refinement

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