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Innovation Master Class
Thomas M Koulopoulos

In this intensive, full-day workshop you will review multiple collaborative techniques and methods to take you well beyond brainstorming, and learn how other organizations are leveraging their innovative capabilities. Participants will receive tools and methods for team-based creative problem solving, allowing you to define your own personal style preferences in relation to solving problems and managing change. You will also receive proven tools to help you generate more options, a greater variety of options, and options that are novel or unusual, enabling you to analyze and refine new options and to turn interesting possibilities into useful solutions. You will increase your ability to create fresh new possibilities and put them to work immediately in your own personal life and your business, profession, or organization.

What You Will Learn
• Best Practices in Innovation
• How to measure Innovation
• How to leverage technology to manage innovation
• How to document innovation
• How to create rewards and behaviors that will encourage a culture of innovation
• How to determine your organizations propensity for innovation
• The core skills needed to become a master at innovation
• How to become adept at twelve distinct methods of fostering innovation
• How to assess the innovative profile of others

Detailed Agenda:

Defining Innovation in Today's Enterprise
• Innovation on a Global Stage
• Innovation vs. Invention
• Innovation vs. Problem Solving
• Reactive vs Proactive Innovation
• The components of Innovation
• Why Innovation is Rarely taught in the classroom
• Building a core competency organization
• Eight new rules for the next Generation of Innovators

Why Brainstorming is Not Enough
• The Importance of Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace
• Metrics and Business Drivers
• Assessing Your Innovation Skills and Approaches. Personal Creativity Lessons
• Self Assessment - The VIEW Assessment
• Best Practices in Innovation Management
• Building an Effective & Balanced Innovation Team

Thinking Tools Attribute Listing
• Morphological Matrix
• Force-fitting
• SCAMPER
• Hits and Hot Spots
• ALoU
• Paired Comparison Analysis
• SML
• Evaluation Matrix
• TRIZ

How To Build Innovation as a Organizational Competency
• Defining an Innovation Architecture
• The Role of process and culture
• Assessing and balancing innovation styles to develop balanced and effective team-based innovation
• Using ROT (Return on Time) as a benchmark and ROI metric
• Measuring Partnership value for innovation in sourcing relationships
• Effective Tools and Approaches to Valuing Innovation
• Measuring partnership value for Innovation in sourcing relationships
• Case studies of benchmark innovators (Toyota, Tuner, Apple, Google, and others)

About the Instructor

Thomas M Koulopoulos is Executive Director of The Babson College Center for Business Innovation. As the founder and president of Delphi Group, a widely respected advisory services firm which he grew to be an INC 500 global player with offices on five continents and a client base of 20,000. Delphi Group focused on consulting, advisory services, research and market analysis, and education across a variety of industries. Koulopoulos sold Delphi Group to Perot Systems in 2003. At Perot he established the Innovation Lab of Perot Systems in the US and India, which was one of the first innovation labs of its kinds in the service industry. Koulopoulos has written seven books on business, economic and technology strategy and has been a consultant and advisor to hundreds of global organizations, government agencies and corporate leaders. He has been praised by such management icons as Peter Drucker, who said of Tom’s work, “It not only makes you question the way you run your business but also the way you run yourself.” Koulopoulos’ most recent book, Smartsourcing: How to Drive Innovation, Jobs, and Growth in the Age of Globalization looks at the core drivers and broad implications of outsourcing and globalization. Koulopoulos has been an adjunct professor at the Boston College Wallace E. Carroll Graduate School of Management and a guest lecturer and advisor at the Boston University Graduate School and an advisor to the Bentley College McCallum Graduate School.