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Center for Innovation Management

Certificate Program in Innovation Management

 

 Meeting March 26, April 16 and May 14

The Center for Innovation Management assists organizations in achieving high performance and competitive advantage. The CIM’s customized, world-class corporate education programs train managers to solve their most challenging problems creatively. The CIM helps companies develop leaders that can manage ideas successfully and create environments that drive innovation and change.

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Program Goals:

To provide managers in organizations with the knowledge and tools needed improve creativity and innovation in their workplace and implement high-performance idea systems. Employee ideas are a critical resource to most organizations today; they save money and time, increase revenue, improve customer service and responsiveness, and help organizations meet critical strategic goals.

Attendees will acquire valuable skills in managing creativity and ideas that will allow them to drive continuous improvement and rapid innovation in their organizations and to respond more effectively to the problems and opportunities they face. A certificate from the Center for Innovation Management will be awarded upon completion of the program.

Core Competencies:

  • How to set up and launch an effective idea system
  • Basic principles of managing creativity and ideas
  • How to focus employee ideas on issues of critical importance
  • How to make ideas part of the job for everyone
  • The six elements of corporate creativity and how to implement them

Schedule Spring 2010:
9 am-5 pm each day

  • Session 1: Friday, March 26
    Introduction to the Power of Ideas and Key Principles in Managing Them
  • Session 2: Friday, April 16
    Designing, Piloting, and Launching a High-Performance Idea Process
  • Session 3: Friday, May 14
    Sustaining and Building an Idea-Driven Organization

Details:

  • Training: 25 hours of training time, including three 7-hour sessions, plus out-of-class reading assignments and projects, and in-class presentations.
  • CEUs: 2.5
  • Cost: $1,295 per participant, $1,195 for two or more participants from the same organization.
  • Instructor: Dr. Alan G. Robinson
  • For more information call 212 217.4603.