Building a Foundation and Culture of Innovation
When faced with a steady stream of disruptive change, organizations have to be able to problem-solve and think creatively to come up with new solutions. This course shows you how to “think inside the box” and build a culture of innovation using your existing resources. You’ll learn disciplined approaches that will harness and unleash the creativity of your people.
Course Overview
In this 4-module course, you will learn the philosophy, strategies, and tools required to create a culture of Innovation. The course includes a description of the organizational structure, skills, and commitment required to support ongoing innovation and drive sustainable, measurable results. And concludes with a module on breaking cognitive fixedness that will open your mind to new problem-solving possibilities.
Module 1 – What is Innovation?
Presenter: Alon Harris
Systematic Inventive Thinking
Explore the concepts of Innovation, look at different approaches to how people innovate and determine their effectiveness.
Time to view this module: 17 minutes
Module 2 – Innovation - The Method
Presenter: Alon Harris
Systematic Inventive Thinking
Learn the philosophy of Innovation and the methodology behind this proven approach.
Time to view this module: 17 minutes
Module 3 – Creating a Culture of Innovation -
3 Pillars: Structures, Skills, and Achieving Sustainable Results
Presenter: Alon Harris
Systematic Inventive Thinking
Identify the major barriers to innovative thinking and understand how to remove these barriers and build a structure and means for making innovation an organizational asset.
Time to view this module: 8 minutes
Module 4 – Cognitive Fixedness
Presenters: Alon Harris and Shlomit Tassa
Systematic Inventive Thinking
In a closed world with finite resources, the key to inventive thinking is breaking down cognitive fixedness – functional, structural, and relational. Removing fixedness helps to unlock the creative potential of your organization.
Time to view this module: 37 minutes
Course Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of the course, you will:
- Know a useful definition of, and understand the current concepts of Innovation.
- Compare different approaches to Innovation and their effectiveness.
- Learn the structure and function of this Innovation methodology and the philosophy behind it.
- Understand and overcome cognitive fixedness – structural, functional, and relational – and unlock the creative problem-solving potential of your people.
- Learn how this approach works in practice and the crucial elements behind its success.
Presenter: Alon Harris
Alon is an Innovation Facilitator and Account Manager. A true renaissance man, his diverse background and expertise fit perfectly with SIT’s work and values. Alon enriches any project he works on, bringing in a unique set of skills, from Business Intelligence, coaching and training, through Content Design and Performing Arts. He works with a cross-section of SIT’s major clients in agrochemicals, food and beverage, banking, insurance and media across different geographies, developing their organizational innovation capabilities.
Prior to joining SIT, Alon was VP Content and Research for a leading business intelligence company and was a strategic consultant for the Ministry of Defense. He is a Certified Life Coach and has a BA in Liberal Arts from Tel Aviv University. He also makes great chocolate.
Presenter: Shlomit Tassa
As VP Key Clients and senior facilitator at SIT, Shlomit is very much of an all-rounder in the SIT team. Shlomit combines her technical and engineering background with extensive expertise in marketing and innovation processes. She has led SIT’s work with a diverse range of clients including ABN AMRO, Adidas, Bayer, HP, Johnson & Johnson, Pearson, Shell, Siemens, and Unilever. She and her team work with clients to build an infrastructure of innovation capabilities as means of improving their companies’ business goals. As a facilitator, Shlomit specializes in Creative Problem Solving, New Product Development, and MarCom.
Shlomit heads SIT’s expertise in Innovation for Sustainability, developing methods for generating cutting-edge sustainable solutions, and has spoken on the topic in various international conferences.
Developing Organization: Systematic Inventive Thinking
SIT – Systematic Inventive Thinking®, Ltd. is a privately owned company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, with offices or affiliates on 5 continents. Since 1996, SIT has conducted innovation programs in more than 60 countries in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. They’ve worked with over 850 companies and organizations – varying in size from 10 to 300,000 employees – helping them to think differently in a useful and effective way and achieve their objectives through innovation.