This program includes a series of 14 educational videos which can be complemented with a more rigorous certification program. This certification program is comprised of a 12-week curriculum with a specific syllabus and assignments for each week to prepare you to be the innovation growth leader in your organization.
Learn MoreSee the Video SeriesLearn about the Innovation Genome—a way of thinking about and strategizing growth within yourself and your organization.
It’s time to rethink how you think about innovation—from the life cycle of a business to the sequences of growth. Learn the upsides and downsides to all the different forms of innovation.
Look around yourself for new sources of innovation—trends, incongruities, wildcards, outliers—and the people who can help you achieve change: leaders, adaptors, connectors, and financiers.
Learn how to set growth targets with the most potential for success. Develop an innovative mindset as you brainstorm winning ideas.
Find the people around you who can fill in your blind spots and help you with things you don’t know now. Assemble the high-performing team that will lead you to growth.
Accelerate the failure cycle as you run many experiments at once, discovering what works along the way. Be flexible as you feel your way toward the future.
It’s time to review, revise, and repeat. Evaluate your experiments and polish them as you choose the solutions that will ensure long-term growth.
Master the strategies and processes that promote advanced creativity—from defamiliarization to syndetic thinking.
Learn how to find and enroll the sponsors who will turn your idea into a reality.
Evaluate your own organization’s potential to innovate and measure the value associated with the innovative processes run by your firm.
Capitalize on emerging opportunities and identify prospective sectors of growth as you learn about the two strategies of innovation: convergent and divergent innovation.
Determine the successes and failures of new ideas by putting concrete values on their inputs and outcomes.
Jeff DeGraff shares with you some tricks of the trade to help innovation happen in your organization.
Watch Jeff DeGraff in action as he runs a jumpstart and brainstorming session with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Hone the skills that will prepare you for leading innovation in your organization:
Selecting and assessing high potential innovation leaders
Diagnosing an organization’s innovation culture and competency
Developing an innovation strategy
Building a high performing innovation team
Launching innovation projects and teams
Jumpstarting processes
Gaining buy-in for solutions
Synchronizing growth opportunities and organizational practices
Community of Practice – sharing and communicating with other participants
The certificate program will incorporate the learning from the online modules and help you successfully employ them in real work situations. Program components include:
Innovation
Leadership
Assessment
Companion
Workbooks
12 week program
Group Coaching
Teleconference &
Project Review