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BUILD INNOVATION CAPACITY COLLECTION SERIES

1. INTRODUCTION

"Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time
Bill Gates Microsoft Co-Founder

Innovation - everybody talks about it. Innovation is the fuel for growth for economies in transition and in disruptions. Innovation capabilities are the intellectual capital behind the engine of growth and competitive advantages Most realized there are specialized competencies to build their innovation capital which often forms the core of the intangible, intellectual capital, knowledge flows and technology management of a firm. These set the innovative firm apart as discriminator of successful growth. This first 3 part of our collection of several programmes encompass a suite of integrative skills and education to enhance innovation capabilities at the three interacting aspects of individual as innovator, at managers of innovator and at functionally innovative organisational levels. Part 1 starts with IGNITING CREATIVITY & instilling an important belief creativity is a skill that can be learned and a selection of techniques is made available during the workshop to help germinate and accelerate the creativity in the context of cognitive challenges and design case study reinforcing the central importance of ideas generation and creative inventiveness in becoming an initiator of innovation. Part 2 continues with Shaping MANAGERS OF INNOVATORS, for innovation and develops a clear understanding of a managers crucial role in innovation, the specific skills needed to manage creatives and succeed in instilling innovation with demonstrable quality of exchanges with teams. Part 3 concludes with Shaping the ORGANISATION FOR INNOVATION. Whilst leadership extols innovation, this programme reveals the extent your organisations ability (& gaps) to expose new technologies, exploit market opportunities and innovation with guiding structure and process to convert concept to cash. Taken together as 3-in-1 Collection of programmes it challenges your conventional wisdom and corporate thinking on innovation. It proceed to infuse participants with latest thinking, practices and tools in evolving from boasting merely efficiency-driven, resource and asset led growth towards being genuinely innovation-driven enterprise. You will learn to generate new value, shake out anti-innovation habitual thinking; acquire competencies in innovation capabilities.

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2. OBJECTIVES i.
Workshop Part 1 IGNITE CREATIVITY / SHAPING INDIVIDUAL FOR INNOVATION Learn to question conventional wisdom, traditional habits of thinking and break out into metaphoric thinking, lateral thinking and shift to new angles and starting points in solving problems, viewing issues and inspiring new ideas. Demolish remnants of mis-guidance on innovation. Infuse progressively with knowledge on HOW to think creatively, solve challenges and design creatively. Deconstruct innovative inability and reconstruct with capability to innovate with key concepts and principles breaking beyond narrow perspectives to broader awareness of innovation. OUTCOMES Enrich your armoury of Creative Thinking & Creative Problem Solving Techniques. Gain insight into how to build team to spark creativity. Test your ability in applying design principles to innovating product. Enrich techniques for solving problems that are difficult to explain, hard to follow, poorly defined and with uncertainties. Exposed to what most admired companies do in breaking down barriers for innovation.

ii. Workshop Part 2 SHAPING MANAGERS FOR INNOVATION, OF INNOVATORS

Learn leadership & managerial skills needed to succeed in working with innovationadept people. Develop self-awareness of the skills needed to reflect and act in instilling genuine innovation. Make the magic happen - change the mind-set of people and let creativity and innovation flourish. OUTCOMES Acquire specific skills you need to nurture as authentic Managers of Innovators. Rebase your personal understanding of innovation can you manage something you do not understand? Shape Pro-Innovation Habits-Attitudes-Behaviours. Unravel the determining factors & environment for innovation.

iii. Workshop Part 3 SHAPING ORGANISATION FOR INNOVATION

Discover if your own innovation methodology provide adequate guiding structure and platform for consistent capability in Innovation Judge if your innovation funnels align with business strategy Assess your organisational ability to expose new technologies and evoke new concepts Determine your capacity to turn concept and transform to patent or deliver product value

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OUTCOMES Learn to assess practices that work, did not work as functionally innovative organisation. Gather pertinent data on what must change to stimulate and boost your innovation journey. Learn to ascertain metrics useful for the lifecycle of innovation.

3. DATE, TIME AND VENUE

Date Time Venue : TBA : 9.00 a.m. 5.30 p.m. : TBA

4. WHO SHOULD ATTEND

i. ii. General - All beginning or facing challenges in driving innovation. Specific - R&D Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Product Designers, Engineers, Developers, Designers, Technology Manager, Product Architect, Technical Marketeers, Innovation Champions & Catalyst, Academicians, Corporate Leaders

5. METHODOLOGY
All 3 programmes comes alive with a blend of case study, case forum, case-lets and both provocative and probing dialogue. Learning comes in the modes of immersive (learning by doing, in doing); affective (enrich motivation), cognitive (gain new insights, shake assumptions) and you get a personal sense of shifting paradigm, and removing a degree of thinking inertia. You come out feeling a sense of seeing innovation at a new level of abstraction, able to tie disparate information and the earlier puzzles over the fragmented pieces now seems less daunting.

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6. FACILITATOR

MICHAEL SONG (BSc, PgD)

Michael is a Director and Management Principal of Black Swan Technology, a company specializing in fortifying the elements that makes managerial and technology success with strategic and innovative moves. Michael previously held the positions of Senior Director for R&D at a NASDAQ-listed technology company (NASDAQ:STEC) and Director of Software Engineering in a Fortune 500 company (Motorola). Pre-dating the above, Michael has experience of directorship / senior leadership roles including non-executive directorship in central Europe where he was privileged to serve alongside professors of management & technology from top business schools. Michael spent many early years as a consultant, educator and provided his technical and management services globally in some 30 countries. He has worked on several European research projects. He has co-authored a reference model on Software and Systems Engineering Acquisition under the umbrella of Eu-SPRITE2 Research programme. Michael was appointed external reviewer, external advisor by national agencies in APAC to raise their capabilities in software and product development programmes. He has been sought after as strategic facilitator, innovation coach and product advisor. Michael has served as advisor / consultant to multinational companies in APAC & Europe he gained many vantage points from technology, management and innovation leadership which grew a wealth of practical live-in-the question experiences across all stages in the business of new product development, creating and delivering value in competitive spaces. Through the course of his extensive travel and work he became involved with programme committees internationally and has spoken in over 35 international conferences including winning best paper award and as key note speaker. Michael has driven and managed large organisation transformation programmes (re-inventing corporate), complex consultancy projects (large scale, scope and unforgiving speed) and amorphous products development incorporating new technologies. Michael currently publishes several playbooks and booklets, research briefs and promotes extensive knowledge networking in areas of technology management, business simulation and innovation strategies. He dissects emerging knowledge and often adds his personal thoughts on management of technology and innovation practices.

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7. PROGRAMME

Workshop Part 1 Ignite Creativity / Shaping Individual For Innovation (1 day) 08:30 09:00 a.m. 09:00 09:30 a.m. Registration 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Welcome & Begin With Setting The Stage Expectations Workshop Mechanics include Questionnaires Innovation Itch & New Gold Awake Your Creative Genes Cognitive Challenges

09:30 10:30 a.m.

10:30 10:45 a.m. 10:45 a.m. 12:00 p.m.

Break 7. 8. Why Creative Thinking is Difficult? Prepare, Learn To be Creative Game & Intro To Case Study (CS) & Innovative Design Case Study Design Activity & Presentation

12:00 1:00 p.m. 1:00 2:00 p.m. 2:00 3:30 p.m. 3:30 3:45 p.m. 3:45 5:30 p.m.

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Lunch Break 10. Introduction Case Forum (CF) 11. CF Dialogue Break 12. Analysis of Questionnaires 13. Advocacy: People- Systems Competence 14. Product - Dream Catalogue

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Linkages.

Innovator

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Workshop Part 2 Shaping Managers For Innovation, Of Innovators (1 day) 08:30 09:00 a.m. 09:00 09:30 a.m. Registration 1. 2. 3. 4. Welcome Expectations Gathering Begin With Setting The Stage Workshop Mechanics Managing Creative People inside the Innovation Pipelines
Key findings and its impact on Developing You as Managers of Creative People

09:30 10:30 a.m.

10:30 10:45 a.m. 10:45 a.m. 12:00 p.m.

Break 5. Nurture You as Managers of Innovators

Introspection and reflection on YOU - YOU need to be fed skills and care about your OWN ability to discharge your role professionally - Understand the management factors SPECIFICALLY involved in nurturing innovation

12:00 1:00 p.m.

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Shaping Pro-Innovation Attitudes

Can an organization be highly innovative within an environment hostile to creativity and innovation? Learn to recognize and consciously remove anti-innovation value behaviour, attitudes & habits in YOU

1:00 2:00 p.m. 2:00 2: 45 p.m.

Lunch Break Continue Shaping Pro-Innovation Attitudes

Can an organization be highly innovative within an environment hostile to creativity and innovation? Learn to recognize and consciously remove anti-innovation value behaviour, attitudes & habits in YOU

2:45 4:00 p.m.

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Managing the tapestry of contradictions and simultaneity in innovation

Learn the art of managing contradictions, the key determinants & barriers for creating effective environment

4:00 4:15 p.m. 4:15 5:00 p.m.

Break 8. Advocating the Principles as Professional Manager of Innovator

See what innovation leadership YOU have in YOU & Discover the wisdom of Innovation leadership

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Workshop Part 3 Shaping Organisation For Innovation (1 day) 08:30 09:00 a.m. 09:00 09:30 a.m. Registration 1. 2. 3. 4. Welcome & Begin With Setting The Stage Expectations Workshop Mechanics ORG EXTOLLING INNOVATION
Introduction on Innovation Performance & Climate Landscape Reflective Views from MANAGERS /participants

09:30 10:30 a.m.

10:30 10:45 a.m. 10:45 a.m. 12:00 p.m.

Break 5. Input-side Introspection:

Extent organization provide the structure, provide a platform, context & guidance for innovation to start & move forward

12:00 1:00 p.m.

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Process-side Introspection: Culture / Pipelines / Ideation / Development

Extent organization provide ability to expose new technology, meet unmet needs and market opportunities; merge knowledge with customer (unarticulated) needs / industry trends to yield innovation possibilities, evoke new concepts.

1:00 2:00 p.m. 2:00 3:00 p.m.

Lunch Break Continue Process-side Introspection: Culture / Pipelines / Ideation / Development

Extent organization provide ability to expose new technology, meet unmet needs and market opportunities; merge knowledge with customer (unarticulated) needs / industry trends to yield innovation possibilities, evoke new concepts.

3:00 4:15 p.m.

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LIVING INSIDE INNOVATION CLIMATE side Hostility v Conducive nature of climate

Boosters Needed for innovation journey

4: 15 4:30 p.m. 4:30 5:00 pm

Break 8. ASCERTAIN: So what is YOUR and ORGANISATIONs Innovation Quotient

Ponders & Pointers on What YOU should do from Workshop Discovery

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8. FEE
Please email for quotation.

For more info, kindly contact : Khairol Anuar Mohammed, USAINS Holding Sdn. Bhd. (wholly-owned by USM) Kompleks EUREKA 11800 USM, Penang. (E) khairol@usainsgroup.com / khairol_usains@yahoo.com (Kindly send to both email addresses) (DL): 04-653 4372 ; (M): 012-286 9048 (F): 04-657 2210

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