Workshop title

Introduction to
Innovation & Creativity

Duration

Half or full day

Target audience

Targeted at anyone who needs to generate new product ideas and create new services or processes. The sessions are informal and by necessity content and discussion are kept generic to protect participant organisations’ confidentially 

Workshop content

This workshop aims to show how social economy organisations can embrace innovation and creativity and enhance business performance. The workshop is very practical in nature and includes:

• the 4 stages of innovation and how employees can work as an innovative team

• exploration of a range of methods & techniques for generating new ideas

• ways to progress ideas to developing practical solutions
• Critical Success Factors for organisations to become creative and innovative

• Ideas generation & evaluation

Planned learning outcomes

• Increased knowledge of the process of innovation
• Increased awareness of the wide range of practical approaches to ideas generation which any organisation can follow
• Better understanding of how to move from idea to developing practical solutions
• Better understanding of how to evaluate ideas generated

Back up support

1:1 advisor support for participant organisations from an experienced innovations advisor to help organizations develop ideas towards practical solutions

Upcoming workshop dates

TBC