Lead Your Company's Growth and Performance Initiatives
What makes a successful Chief Innovation Officer? And why are companies like Humana, Coca-Cola, Citigroup and others establishing the position of CIO? These market leaders recognize the power inherent in developing new ideas, new products and new ways to satisfy customers. But few organizations understand what it actually takes to develop a culture of innovation and to how to design a program that achieves measurable and repeatable results.

BMGI's Chief Innovation Officer seminar is a powerful workshop for executives who are ready to move beyond innovation theory and begin developing a focused and practical innovation approach for future-proofing any business. Designed specifically for executives leading the charge for innovation inside their organizations. Chief Innovation Officer will feature emerging strategies, tools and techniques from some of the foremost thinkers in innovation today.

If you have the drive, the skills and the talent to lead the charge for innovation inside your business, this is an event you cannot afford to miss!

Chief Innovation Officer is designed for senior leaders who are interested in building and fostering an innovative corporate culture, establishing a systematic innovation process and increasing the impact of innovative thinking on business outcomes. Some of the topics covered will include:

• How to design and implement an enterprise-wide innovation strategy using a proven innovation roadmap.
• The five keys to successful innovation as applied by the world's most innovative companies.
• How to establish a "culture of creativity" by encouraging collaboration and developing talent.
• Best practices for designing an innovation program and measuring results.

• Team Dynamics for Building the Most Productive Teams
  Improve team dynamics by understanding how personal style impacts performance.
• Techniques for Accelerating Innovation
  Gain new tools for ideation, selection, prioritization and implementation that will ensure your success at every phase.
• Methods for Portfolio Identification and Management
  Discover how to build an innovation pipeline that sustains and evolves your business.
• How to Leverage the Power of Open Innovation
  Methods for building innovative capability using the power of the market.

Chief Innovation Officer is designed for senior executives who have been charged with driving organizational innovation, including:

• CIOs (Chief Innovation Officers).
• Executives with enterprise-wide innovation responsibility
• VPs / Directors of R & D
• Senior Performance Excellence Leaders
• Corporate Strategy executives

Still not sure if this class is for you? Call +91-22-400 200 45 / 6 or Contact Us for assistance.

BMGI also offers onsite training programs for groups of 8 or more. For more information on onsite training, please Contact us directly.

 
TRIZ is rapidly gaining popularity as a powerful methodology for enhancing innovation and creativity inside corporate environments. Research and development teams, product developers, manufacturers and service businesses alike are finding TRIZ to be a powerful tool for solving practical problems and building new technologies in their business.

TRIZ helps companies generate more solutions of a higher quality in less time. TRIZ is applicable to every industry and in every environment for the acceleration and innovation of problem solving. TRIZ is also used to improve the scope and strength of intellectual property.

BMGI's Basic TRIZ Training (pronounced "treez") offers a set of tools for defining contradictions, solving problems and selecting solutions. Standard approaches to problem solving involve the implementation of solutions that are usually compromises. TRIZ enables you to rethink the way you and your organization evaluate and approach a problem so that you can identify an ideal solution and avoid compromise. This program offers an intensive introduction to the foundational elements of TRIZ and provides Participants with an understanding of how to use them effectively to solve problems in a manner that is repeatable, predictable, reliable and creative.

• What TRIZ is and how it works as a robust problem solving methodology.
• What the various levels of innovation and their importance to TRIZ.
• How psychological inertia can affect problem solving.
• How to identify and define problems in terms of contradictions.
• How to successfully solve problems using the Contradiction Matrix Theory, Separation Principles
• How to use key TRIZ concepts including:
• Zones of Conflict
• Functional Analysis
• System Constraints
• The Ideal Final Result & Ideality
• Utilization of Resources

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BMGI also offers onsite training programs for groups of 12 or more. For more information on onsite training, please Contact us directly.

 
Using Innovation skills to enhance problem-solving abilities
At Breakthrough Management Group International (BMGI), we specialize in producing highly motivated and successful Performance Excellence practitioners. From Lean Six Sigma to Design and Innovation, we constantly evolve our curriculum to bring the latest advances in process improvement and business transformation to our clients.

This class teaches a number of powerful Innovation tools in the context of BMGI's structured Innovation methodology, D4. Participants will be able to apply the D4 roadmap (Define, Discover, Develop and Demonstrate) to solve business problems; or, they can use the Innovation techniques they learn in conjunction with any process improvement methodology.

Participants will have the opportunity in class to work on a project of their choosing to solve a real-world issue that requires innovative thinking.

• How to apply a structured roadmap for innovation
• Which innovation tools to use for each phase of innovation
• How to properly identify and scope problems that require innovative thinking
• Methods for developing innovative solutions
• How to evaluate and test possible solutions

Still not sure if this class is for you? Call +91-22-400 200 45 / 6 or Contact Us for assistance.

BMGI also offers onsite training programs for groups of 8 or more. For more information on onsite training, please Contact us directly.

 
Increase your organization's problem-solving abilities through systematic innovation. You have problems. Old problems, new problems, problems you haven't even thought of yet. In this ever-changing world, the problems you encounter may seem overwhelming, outpacing your organization's ability to develop solutions. So what do you do?

By participating in this one-day executive overview, you'll discover how organizations around the world are making innovation a core competency - leading to greater problem-solving ability and the development of superior processes and services - and how your organization can do the same.

• Insights into how the best-run organizations have developed sustainable and systematic approaches to innovation.
• A roadmap for innovation, and an introduction to many of the specific tools of innovation.
• Ways to identify innovators hidden inside your organization.
• Approaches for overcoming obstacles to innovation and for driving a cultural transformation that unleashes your innovation potential.
• The link between innovation and other approaches to problem solving such as Lean Six Sigma.

This training is specifically for General or Flag Officer, Senior Officer, CPI Leader, or senior business executives.

Still not sure if this class is for you? Call +91-22-400 200 45 / 6 or Contact Us for assistance.

BMGI also offers onsite training programs for groups of 8 or more. For more information on onsite training, please Contact us directly.


Learn how to apply a structured Innovation methodology to accelerate your organization’s organic growth potential
In any organization, fresh thinking and creative problem-solving often leads to cutting-edge products, sought-after services, customer loyalty and a competitive edge. Yet many companies struggle with how to safely and effectively move beyond tired thinking and take calculated risks. In essence, they lack a systematic and reliable method for making innovation a core competency.

BMGI's Innovation Expert course teaches participants how to succeed in this area using a structured Innovation methodology called D4. The D4 roadmap includes four phases (Define, Discover, Develop and Demonstrate), which combine to make the process of innovation structured, scalable, repeatable and predictable. In addition, Participants will learn proven tools and techniques for creative problem solving, as well as problem definition, idea generation, idea selection and testing.

The result is a markedly improved ability for organizations to develop new products and services that truly meet customer needs. Companies may also choose to apply the same innovation principles to their everyday processes and business model at large, transforming the organization for long-term success.

Innovation Expert is offered onsite for teams working on a pre-defined problem, or individuals who want to gain the skills to be more consistently innovative.

• What D4 is and how it enables structured innovation.
• How to Define a specific innovation problem.
• How to Discover a broad range of solutions using innovative thinking.
• How to Develop solutions and evaluate their effectiveness.
• How to Demonstrate successful problem resolution.
• How to Develop innovative products and services.
• How to Identify unarticulated customer needs.
• How to Transform the organization’s business model using innovation.
• How to Apply many different innovation tools* including:
• Ethnography
• TILMAG
• Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory
• Rapid Prototyping
• Idea Harvesting and Treatment
• Concept Abstraction and Alternatives

*The actual tools taught in class will vary depending on the organization’s needs and types of problems.

Course Length: 10 days over 2-3 weeks

Innovation teams that have a problem they want to solve together. Also leaders and managers who want to learn about a structured methodology for innovation. Still not sure if this class is for you? Call +91-22-400 200 45 / 6 or Contact Us for assistance.

BMGI also offers onsite training programs for groups of 8 or more. For more information on onsite training, please Contact us directly.

 
Using Diversity in Teams Effectively
Most organizations use teams to work on some of their more difficult problems. The use of teams is directed to use the diverse talents available in the room to enable the team to generate the most innovative solutions. However getting people together presents another challenge - how do you manage people with differing thinking styles? Thinking style refers to the way people think - some people are more comfortable moving in gradual steps within the paradigm and only after exhausting the known possibilities within will move outside. For others, their thinking is more aligned to consider the paradigm as the problem and their thinking style takes more giant steps randomly within and outside the paradigm.

Research shows that differing styles in people can cause communication problems and make the team ineffective. The very purpose of getting teams together is to use the diversity and should the team not work to its potential it will become counter-productive.

We at BMGI help organizations bridge this gap by working to assess individual's thinking style and work with organization to create teams that are capable to work effectively and efficiently. Using the KAI - Kirton Adaptive Innovation Inventory, we assess each individual's thinking style and provide feedback to them to enable them to understand themselves and the team better. We work with the management team to ensure that the right skills are on the team and the team has the capability to manage its diversity.

The course largely focuses on KAI – the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Method – and offers a feedback on participants STYLE of problem solving too. This program focuses on how to improve team work and increase communication in team members to effectively manage the process for innovation. This program is a great tool to learn and understand the differences in individual problem solving style and effectively managing conflicts, bridging the gap of team members, and increase collaboration among team members.

• Teams assigned to solve innovative problems
• Team leaders who would like to understand style and its impact to performance
• CIO
• Managers / Leaders of teams

Also leaders and managers who want to learn about managing innovation teams effectively and increase collaboration. Still not sure if this class is for you? Call +91-22-400 200 45 / 6 or Contact Us for assistance.

BMGI also offers onsite training programs for groups of 8 or more. For more information on onsite training, please Contact us directly.