Fundamentals in Innovation: Developing and Pitching Innovative Solutions (TRN245)

Overview

Delivery method

Online

Duration

5 hours

Audience

Employees

Managers

Supervisors

Description

Innovation is a process that combines opportunity with value. This online self-paced course (3 of 3) introduces the basic facilitation and prototyping methodologies used to brainstorm, plan and undertake proper testing techniques. Participants will learn about the importance of co-creation, ideation, prototyping and testing, while also learning how to tell their story through a basic narrative architecture to help drive stakeholder engagement.

Topics include:

• designing solutions directly with stakeholders
• generating multiple solution concepts to improve on an existing solution
• prototyping and testing solutions in response to a defined need
• generating buy-in and stakeholder engagement
• telling the story of why your innovation matters, its value and its potential impact

Notes:

This course is part of the Fundamentals in Innovation Series, a three-part series that introduces the basic principles and practices of innovation that can be applied to any workplace or innovative idea. In a collaborative effort, MaRS Discovery District partnered with the Canada School of Public Service (CSPS) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to create, design, and refine this series for the Government of Canada public service, based on a program developed with PHAC.

1. Fundamentals in Innovation: Getting Ready to Innovate (TRN243)
2. Fundamentals in Innovation: Finding and Framing Innovation Opportunities (TRN244)
3. Fundamentals in Innovation: Developing and Pitching Innovative Solutions (TRN245)