Course Description

The Certified Innovation Performance Professional program is a practical professional development course designed to help organizations and individuals systematically manage, measure, and improve innovation outcomes. The program focuses on translating innovation strategy into measurable performance, enabling participants to design innovation frameworks, track impact, and align innovation initiatives with business objectives.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the principles of innovation management and performance measurement.
  • Align innovation initiatives with organizational strategy and business goals.
  • Apply frameworks to manage innovation portfolios and pipelines.
  • Measure innovation performance using KPIs, metrics, and dashboards.
  • Foster an innovation-driven culture that delivers sustainable value.

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for innovation managers, strategy professionals, business leaders, project managers, product owners, and professionals responsible for driving innovation and performance improvement.

Course Agenda

Registration

Welcome & Introduction

Pre-Test

Day 1: Innovation Fundamentals and Strategic Alignment

  • Introduction to innovation performance and professional roles
  • Types of innovation: incremental, radical, and disruptive
  • Innovation strategy and alignment with corporate objectives
  • Innovation governance, structures, and decision-making
  • Building an innovation roadmap and value proposition
  • Case discussion: Successful innovation-driven organizations

Day 2: Managing Innovation Processes and Portfolio

  • Innovation lifecycle and stage-gate models
  • Idea generation, evaluation, and prioritization techniques
  • Innovation portfolio management and resource allocation
  • Risk management in innovation initiatives
  • Collaboration, open innovation, and ecosystem partnerships
  • Practical exercise: Designing an innovation pipeline
Day 3: Measuring, Sustaining, and Scaling Innovation

  • Innovation performance metrics and KPIs
  • Measuring ROI, impact, and value creation
  • Innovation dashboards and reporting frameworks
  • Embedding innovation culture and leadership behaviors
  • Continuous improvement and scaling successful innovations
  • Program wrap-up, action planning, and course review

Post Test

End of the Course

Assessment Methodology

All courses conducted by EdTech will begin with a Pre-evaluation and end with a Post-evaluation. The instructor will evaluate the knowledge and skills of the participants according to the feedback given by participants. This will help to recognize the benefits and the level of knowledge gained by participants through the course.

Training Methodology

Facilitated by a highly qualified specialist, who has extensive knowledge and experience; this program will be conducted using extensively interactive methods, encouraging participants to share their own experiences and apply the program material to real-life work situations in order to stimulate group discussions and improve the efficiency of the subject coverage.

Percentages of the total course hour classification are:

  • ​40% Theoretical lectures, Concepts and approach
  • 20% Motivation to develop individual skill and Techniques
  • 20% Case Studies and Practical Exercises
  • 20% Topic General Discussions and interaction

Course Manual

Participants will be provided with comprehensive presentation material as reference manual. This presentation material is a compilation of core valuable information, references, presentation methods and inspiring reading which will be used as a part of the material guide.

Course Certificate

At the completion of the course, all participants who successfully accomplished the required contact hours will receive an EdTech Training Participation Certificate as a testimony to their commitment to professional development and further education.

Why Edtech ?

  • Industry Experienced; Internationally Qualified Trainers
  • Hands-on Practical Sessions & Assignments
  • Intensive Study materials
  • Flexible Schedules
  • Realistic training methodology
  • High-Quality Training in Affordable Course Fees
  • Achievement Certificate, as approved by the Ministry of Education (Abu Dhabi Center for Technical and Vocational Education Training - ACTVET), HABC, AWS, IAOSHE, SHRM, etc.