Session

Title

Main Content

1 Day

Introduction to
Innovation & Creativity. 

Targeted at anyone who needs to generate new product ideas and create new processes?  This workshop will show how businesses can embrace innovation and creativity and enhance business performance. 
Topics include:

• 4 stages of innovation;
• Creativity & brainstorming rules;
• Focus of attention;
• Critical Success Factors for companies;
• Ideas generation & evaluation.

1 Day

Product Development & Breakthrough Products. 

After the idea, how do you develop new breakthrough products? Aimed at SME’s seeking to develop new breakthrough products, this workshop will identify key factors associated with successful product innovation.  Gain a real insight into emerging trends as well as techniques that identify product opportunity gaps that can deliver significant competitive advantage
Topic include:

• The importance of new product development & innovation;
• Recognising potential;

• Positioning new products;
• Value opportunities;
• New product development – the process

1 Day

Financing &
Protecting
Your Innovation. 

This workshop will provide an insight into raising finance for innovation and covers risk assessment techniques.  In addition, this session will also look at Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), providing an insight into how to select and maximise the appropriate protection required to cover your idea
Topics include:

• Finance – SMART, R&D Grants
• Private finance;
• Due diligence;
• IA vs IP – what is it, how to recognise it & what to do with it;
• Legal issues.

1 Day

Teambuilding

This event combines training, development, team-building, communications and motivation and is available to assist companies seeking to improve the effectiveness of their people. They are particularly effective for (CRM), customer relationship management development focussing on peoples key priorities and personal responsibilities/interest areas. This training event encourages buy-in and involvement more than conventional courses because they are necessarily participative, and the content and output are created by the delegates.

Session

Title

Main Content

4 Half Days

1. Strategies for Growth

The overall aim of this workshop centres on developing an understanding of the variety of strategies that can be employed to assist in business growth.

Specifically:

• Growth through product development
• Growth through process improvement
• Growth through sales
• Growth through technology
• Growth through strategic sourcing
• Growth through strategic partnering

• describe techniques used to identify product and process improvement
• embrace innovation and creativity, and enhance business performance
• develop new breakthrough products
• identify key factors associated with successful product innovation
• identify emerging trends
• identify product opportunity gaps
• identify sources of finance for innovation

1 Day

2. Financing for growth

The overall aim of this workshop is to raise awareness of the importance of financial management and financial planning and its role in planning a strategic growth strategy.

Specifically:

• Assess current financial position
• How will growth be funded
• Do I have sufficient security
• Where will I get the money
• Looking at alternative funding sources

• prepare and understand management accounts
• understand and use key financial ratios
• forecast future financial requirements
• assess financial fitness for planned business growth
• assess current financial position

1 Day

3. Managing Growth

The overall aim of this workshop is to examine the various skills and abilities that today’s modern manager require to be an effective leader.

Specifically:

• The need to understand and plan for growth
• Where am I now (Benchmarking)
• Where do I want to be (Growth strategy)
• What does growth look like (measurement)
• Growth through people (Profit enhancement through people advancement)

• that strategic sourcing is itself a benchmark
• understand the pro's and con's of partnering
• utilising technology efficiently
• get the best out of your people
• develop your strategic model