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Innovation in Business

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The ability to think innovatively and creatively to provide solutions to business processes is fast becoming a key future skill in the workplace or in business.

If you can apply critical thinking and creativity skills, you will be able to grow your innovative thinking capabilities and bring new ideas into your business and/or workplace.

This interactive skills programme aims to give a budding entrepreneur, business owner or starter an understanding of importance of innovative thinking to further develop their entrepreneurial profile and growing their business in applying skills and techniques that maximises their critical and creative thinking to existing and new business ideas.

What you will learn in this course!

Once you complete this skills programme, you will:

  • Develop specific techniques for releasing creativity in developing ideas/opportunities for a new venture or business;
  • Discuss and determine the role of innovation in the development and growth of a new venture or business; and
  • Apply principles and practices of innovation in the development and growth of a new venture or business

Who this course is for?

If you are wanting to grow your creative thinking strategies and apply innovation to your business or business ideas, then this is the skills programme for you!

  1. Creative Thinking & Innovation in Business

1.1          The Importance of Creative Thinking for Entrepreneurs & Business

1.2          The Role of Innovation on the Development & Growth of a New Venture

  1. The Difference between Creative & Analytical Thinking
  2. Barriers to Creative Thinking
  3. Generating New Ideas

4.1          Lateral Thinking

4.2          The Four Stages of the Creative Process

4.3          PESTEL analysis

  1. Applying Innovation Principles & Practices to the Development & Growth of a New Venture

5.1          How the Victim Mentality can Stop Innovation

5.2          Business Practices that Create Innovative Work Cultures

 

Assessment: Note that you can be formally assessed for credit should you wish to.  However, the fees for this are not included here.   Please contact us for further information on this!

This skills programme is aligned to the following unit standard:

Apply innovative thinking to the development of a small business (SAQA Unit Standard ID: 114600 ; NQF  level 4; 4 Credits)

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