Course Description

The Strengthen Your Innovation Management Program is a 5-day training designed to equip participants with a deep understanding of innovation principles, frameworks, and practices used to drive organizational growth. The program covers key topics such as innovation strategy, idea management, creativity techniques, design thinking, open innovation, and innovation culture development. Participants will explore how to align innovation with business objectives, manage an innovation portfolio, measure innovation performance, and embed a culture of continuous improvement and creativity within their teams. The course also examines tools and processes for generating, evaluating, and implementing ideas, as well as ways to overcome barriers to innovation, foster collaboration, and enhance organizational agility.

Course Objectives

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

  • Understand frameworks and principles of innovation management,
  • Develop and implement an innovation strategy aligned with organizational goals.
  • Manage idea generation, evaluation, and implementation processes.
  • Foster an innovation-driven culture and leadership approach.
  • Apply tools such as design thinking, TRIZ, or other structured innovation techniques.
  • Measure and track innovation performance and outcomes.

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for innovation managers, product managers, business leaders, project managers, team leaders, R&D managers, and professionals involved in driving organizational innovation.

Course Agenda

Registration

Welcome & Introduction

Pre-Test

Day 1: Introduction to Innovation Management

  • Overview of innovation and its role in organizational success
  • Types of innovation: product, process, business model, service, and incremental vs disruptive
  • Innovation frameworks and best practices
  • Aligning innovation with strategic objectives

Day 2: Idea Generation and Creativity Techniques

  • Methods for stimulating creativity: brainstorming, TRIZ, lateral thinking
  • Idea management processes: capture, evaluation, and prioritization
  • Tools for collaborative innovation
  • Overcoming barriers to creativity and innovation​

Day 3: Innovation Strategy and Portfolio Management

  • Developing an actionable innovation strategy
  • Managing an innovation portfolio: balancing incremental vs breakthrough initiatives
  • Resource allocation, risk assessment, and decision-making
  • Aligning innovation projects with business goals
Day 4: Open Innovation and Collaboration

  • Principles of open innovation: internal and external collaboration
  • Partnering with startups, universities, and industry networks
  • Knowledge sharing and intellectual property considerations
  • Leadership and cultural factors in supporting innovation
Day 5: Innovation Culture, Metrics, and Implementation

  • Building and sustaining an innovation-driven culture
  • Measuring innovation performance: KPIs and ROI
  • Overcoming resistance to change
  • Embedding continuous improvement and innovation practices
  • Case studies of successful innovation programs and lessons learned
  • Program review and key takeaways

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.