Business Innovation Foundations

Course details

Innovation is an exciting opportunity to get more engaged in your work, to solve problems, and be creative. Learn more about innovation practices and the skills and mindsets required for innovation, in this course with expert Keith Hopper. Discover why innovation is so important to your company’s growth and your career. Then explore the unique skills common to the world’s best innovators and learn to cultivate them in your current role. Next, identify opportunities to innovate by talking to your users and customers, and learn how to use testing to validate those ideas and generate more solutions. Finally, learn how to build a culture of innovation by applying agile principles to initiatives and engaging coworkers and managers in collaborative and open-ended conversations. By the end of this course, you should walk away energized and excited about the possibilities for innovation at your organization.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Getting started with innovation

1. Overview of Business Innovation

02 - Determining innovation opportunities
03 - Shifting from a building to a learning mindset
04 - Understanding the three skills of an innovator

2. Learning about Your Customer (or User)

05 - Understanding the benefits of customer interviews
06 - Conducting customer interviews

3. Test to Learn

07 - Generating ideas for innovative solutions
08 - Identifying assumptions based on your ideas
09 - Testing your assumptions about an innovation
10 - Testing your assumptions - An intergalactic example

4. Build a Culture that Encourages Innovation

11 - Understanding what behaviors create psychological safety
12 - Applying agile principles to innovate
13 - Learning from intelligent failure to innovate
14 - Persisting through innovation challenges
15 - Avoiding common innovation pitfalls
16 - Communicating innovation progress through story