Training on innovation methods

Training courses on innovation methods are valuable for any organisation. Innovation methods are systematic approaches and tools that are used to promote creativity, problem solving and the development of new ideas and solutions. They provide individuals and teams with a range of problem-solving skills. These include techniques for identifying, analysing and overcoming challenges in a creative and effective way. Innovation training also fosters a culture of creativity by encouraging participants to think outside the box. Participants learn to develop new ideas and approach problems with new perspectives.

Many innovation methods emphasise collaborative approaches. Team-based exercises and activities during these trainings promote effective communication and collaboration between team members and thus a co-operative working environment. Innovation methods training helps individuals to assess and better manage the risks associated with new ideas, projects or initiatives.

Here are some examples of innovation methods:

Design Thinking
DT is particularly suitable for customer-centred idea and solution finding. The approach is modelled on the work of designers, which is understood as a combination of understanding, observation, idea generation, refinement, execution and learning. Design thinking is suitable for innovation and marketing projects as well as for R&D and corporate development.

Requirement engineering
Identifying the specific requirements for customers and market segments is just as fundamental to product and service development. Requirement engineering is a suitable method wherever current and future needs and expectations need to be recognised and implemented in good time. The method thus counteracts the risk of producing products that miss the market or developing potential flops.

Customer experience design
Customers know best what they need and when they are ready to make purchasing decisions. Customer experience design makes this customer knowledge its own and thus enables innovation development in line with the market.

Rapid prototyping
Whether ideas can also be realised in practice should be checked at an early stage. In addition to pilot projects and tests, rapid prototyping is a suitable method for bringing ideas into a concrete form and testing them on the market as well as presenting them to management as a basis for decision-making.

Technology screening & scouting
Many innovation projects are based on new technologies. These need to be familiarised with, evaluated and, if necessary, tested in advance. Technology screening and scouting or technology insights create transparency about what is currently technically feasible and thus offer new innovation potential that can also improve productivity and profitability.

Training courses on innovation methods are educational initiatives aimed at cultivating innovation skills. The effects range from improved problem solving and creativity to higher productivity, competitiveness and general adaptability of the organisation.