Innovation Trainings and Lectures

“You can’t prescribe creativity. It’s just there.
We should learn to deal with it, to enable it.”

Content:

• Creativity and creative process – presentation of basics and theory
• Promotion of creativity instead of obstacles – what do our companies need
• Krea Natura © – a psychologically sound approach to the maximum development of creative potential
• Child versus adult – how do I create space for creativity in myself
• Support to develop your own creativity – suggestions, tips and exercises
• The phenomenon of different thinkers – insight into the skills of different thinking
• Toolbox – 10 to 18 efficient creativity tools are trained in practical exercises

Effort: 2 to 4 days

Benefits:

• Increase of creativity
• Higher number of ideas, more originality and strength of your ideas
• Increase motivation among employees and in the company

“There are no rules and no limits,
… except for those we set ourselves.”

Content:

• Different thinking as a phenomenon – explanation of terms based on exercises
• Types of different thinkers and why they are important to us
• How can we think different – some tips and exercises
• Methods, tools and processes of different thinking – excerpts and tools from some highly efficient processes
• How are we supposed to be successful as different thinker
• Support for independent further development
• Examples from practice – this is how successful companies have achieved the breakthrough through different thinking

Effort: 2 to 4 days

Benefits:

• You learn to advance innovative approaches in a saturated market
• More security for your innovation
• You learn to activate your different thinker
• Creating acceptance for natural different thinkers in your teams

“Creativity is good. Structure in addition – better!”

Content:

• Basics/theory of creativity – short overview
• The creativity and structure / the child and the adult – the conflict
• Structured Idea Management – a process that combines creativity and structure to find optimal solutions
• 9 building blocks of Structured Idea Management – the content is trained and practiced using concrete examples
• Benefits and success story – examples from successful projects

Effort: 3 days

Benefits:

• You know how to bring your ideas to maturity with little effort
• Time and cost savings when dealing with ideas and innovations
• High efficiency in the innovation process
• High accuracy of your ideas
• Development of innovation culture
• High motivation and team dynamics

You can never solve problems with the same mindset that created them.
(Albert Einstein, 1879-1955)

Content:

• Synectics, the NASA method – basics, background and overview
• What is necessary for highly innovative thinking
• A journey through 10 steps of Synectics – from precise problem definition to implementation of the solutions in practice.
• Implementation in business practice

Effort: 2.5 days

Benefits:

• Very efficient way of working to find solutions
• Very good, innovative, unusual solutions
• Deep understanding of the problems of previous inhibitions
• Little time required for conceptualization
• Building a new culture in the company that can generate completely new solutions and business areas

“Creativity and a good gut feeling are very important!
Yet, far too often, innovation is left to a creative coincidence alone.”

Dražen Carić …
shows you which advanced innovation management tools are used successfully by the world’s leading companies.

Content:

Structured paths to innovation – some highly efficient methods and processes

• Lead Users Research – learn from lead users who already have concrete solutions
• Idea Pool – record, communicate and implement creative ideas immediately
• Structured Idea Management – combine creativity and structure in an optimal innovation process
• Synectics – metaphorical, intuitive and emotional journey to different thinking
• Blue Ocean Strategy – focus on untouched areas, large customer masses and global success

… with examples from top companies

Duration: approx. 1 hour + discussion afterwards

Dražen Carić …
wants to encourage you to dare to think different and to take different paths. In addition: a few valuable tips that make different thinkers successful.

Content:

• Different Thinking – explanation of terms using simple exercises
• Types of different thinkers and why they are important
• How can we think different – some tips for efficient different thinking
• Methods and processes of different thinking – rough overview (from Synectics to Provocation by questioning the existing)
• How should we as different thinkers become successful – overview of useful tools (from Risk Management to Business Case)
• How did successful companies make a breakthrough through different thinking?

Duration: approx. 1 hour + discussion afterwards

“You can’t prescribe creativity. It’s just there.
We should learn to deal with it, to enable it.”

Content:

• Creativity and creative process – presentation of basics and theory
• Promotion of creativity instead of obstacles – what do our companies need
• Krea Natura© – a psychologically sound approach to the maximum development of creative potential
• Child versus adult – how do I create space for creativity in myself
• Support to develop your own creativity – suggestions, tips and short exercises
• Toolbox – overview of some efficient creativity tools (from brainstorming to six hats)

Duration: approx. 1 hour + discussion afterwards

Dražen Carić …
shows how an innovation process that combines creativity and structure, secures your market success or makes it possible in the first place.

Content:

• The creativity and structure / the child and the adult – the conflict of both polarities
• Structured Idea Management – a process that combines creativity and structure for optimal solutions
• 9 building blocks of Structured Idea Management – from project instructions to roadmap plan
• Benefits and success story

Duration: approx. 1 hour + discussion afterwards