This course is designed for the working professional.

It starts at the beginning, and teaches a practical, hands-on approach to business innovation – explaining clearly what it is, and how to go about pursuing it within a business enterprise.

It also presents a number of key concepts relating to Innovation Management – the work that Innovation Project Leaders and Program Leaders do within the business to help drive and sustain a program of ongoing innovation therein.

When finished, participants should walk away knowing exactly how to pursue and drive new innovation within their business, so that the business can produce a large number of new innovation outputs – and so that you can have the fun of defining, developing, and launching those innovations!

12 main topics:

• Fund. of Bus. Inno / Its Diff. Forms
• Innovator Profiles
• Creativity / Ideation / Brainstorming + Breakthrough Inno Method
• Running Inno Projects in Bus. – 3 Phases:  FEI / MZI / BEI
• Research in Inno
• Design Thinking & HCD
• Inno Managers & Diff. Roles
• Inno Managers as Project Leaders
• Leading & Building Core Inno Teams
• Inno Management Process
• Storytelling in Inno
• Selecting Winning Ideas

The GInI Certified Innovation Professional (CInP) is GInI’s recognition of working professionals who have demonstrated an  advanced understanding of key topics relating to business innovation and innovation management.

CInP certification affirms the individual’s proficiency at key, foundational innovation methods and tools, including such methods  and tools as: research & insights mining, brainstorming & the GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method, Design Thinking,  innovation project structuring, the GInI Breakthrough NPD Method for product & service innovations, the GInI Innovation  Management System, engagement & intrapreneuring, core innovation teams, open innovation, and innovation storytelling.

Regardless of one’s career stage, certification as a GInI Certified Innovation Professional is a valuable professional asset that  distinguishes you as having the knowledge and ability to drive focused and purposeful innovation pursuits inside a business  enterprise.

CInP certification is for those with little or no experience working directly in Innovation, but who wish to gain an understanding of Business  Innovation and how to drive it inside the business enterprise. It is also for those who – on top of having significant Innovation experience –  wish to demonstrate their knowledge and mastery of Business Innovation.

CInP certification is intended for both front-line working professionals and mid-level managers, including those with limited or no Innovation  experience If one has no direct experience working in Innovation, or less than four years’ total professional experience, then they should first  begin with CInP  –certification.

The training associated with CInP certification is designed to impart an understanding of a number of foundational topics on Innovation and  Innovation Management, including: the fundamentals of Business Innovation; the different types of innovation that businesses produce; the  profiles of different innovator types; an understanding of imagination, creativity, ideation, and brainstorming; how to drive Innovation  projects inside of businesses; the use of insights research for Innovation; what Design Thinking is; storytelling; idea evaluation and selection;  the Innovation Management process; the role of Innovation Program Leaders; and the role of Innovation Project Leaders.