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Driving Breakthrough Innovation: Duke CE Certificate Program

Driving Breakthrough Innovation: Duke CE Certificate Program

Course 3834

Duration: 2 days
Language: English
Level: Advanced

50% of all innovation efforts fail to realize the expected value because the innovation doesn't address the real problem or execution fails. The technical leader, who leads many of the innovation efforts in organizations, needs a solid, customer-centered approach to initiating, developing, and deploying innovative solutions. Learners will engage in a customer-centered design process from framing to implementation and practice discovering, framing, and driving successful innovation efforts that create sustainable value.

Driving Breakthrough Innovation Delivery Methods

In-Person
Online

Driving Breakthrough Innovation Course Information

In this Driving Breakthrough Innovation course, you will:

Describe how the application of a design thinking process can yield offerings that create, deliver, and capture sustainable and differentiated value in the marketplace
Apply a customer-centric approach to elicit the needs of the customer
Define innovation and its multiple sources
Innovate on both customer-facing products and internally-facing processes
Apply an ideation approach to ensure broad diversity of thought and perspective in developing a concept

Driving Breakthrough Innovation Prerequisites

Complete Learning Tree course, Navigating Increasing Complexity: Duke CE Certificate Course
Some leadership experience in a technical or business environment can be helpful.

Driving Breakthrough Innovation Exam and Certificate Information

No Exam
This course is part of the Duke CE Advanced Technology Leadership Program, designed by Learning Tree in partnership with Duke Corporate Education. Upon completion of the 6 courses that make up the program, attendees will receive the Transformational Technical Leadership certificate from Duke CE.

Driving Breakthrough Innovation Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction

This module contains the following learning topics:

The Transformational Technical Leadership Framework
What’s in your wallet?
The course learning Objectives
The course Learning Journey

Module 2: Doer and Leader

This module contains the following learning topics:

Innovation today
Innovator is everyone’s role
Innovation versus creativity
The leader’s role in innovation

Module 3: What is an Innovation?

This module contains the following learning topics:

Innovation is a discipline
Innovation is customer-centric
Innovation is solving customer problems
Types of Innovation

Module 4: Big Ideas Are Never the Problem

This module contains the following learning topics:

The discipline of criticizing your ideas
Reframing to see the real problem
Fail forward fast repeatedly
Achieving an innovative solution: the Innovator’s DNA

Module 5: Innovator’s DNA: Empathizing/Reframing

This module contains the following learning topics:

Digging deeper
Pain points
Reframing
Solving the right problem

Module 6: Innovator’s DNA: Ideating

This module contains the following learning topics:
Operating outside-in
Expanding perception and thinking
A diversity of perspectives
The challenges of attaching to a single idea

Module 7: Innovator’s DNA: Experimenting

This module contains the following learning topics:

Cycles of testing
Loops of learning
Managing failure
The gift of unexpected results

Module 8: Innovator’s DNA: Piloting

This module contains the following learning topics:

Pressure testing solutions in the real world
Habits and routines that support curiosity
The continuous learning mindset
Challenge the status quo!

Get This Course $2,690

2-day instructor-led training course
Curriculum designed in partnership with Duke University professors
Includes Course Certificate from Learning Tree & Duke Corporate Education

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Guaranteed to Run - you can rest assured that the class will not be cancelled.
Dec 16 - 17 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST

Virtual
Mar 17 - 18 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT

Herndon, VA or Virtual
Jun 17 - 18 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT

Herndon, VA or Virtual
Sep 15 - 16 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT

Herndon, VA or Virtual

2-day instructor-led training course
Curriculum designed in partnership with Duke University professors
Includes Course Certificate from Learning Tree & Duke Corporate Education

#3834

Guaranteed to Run - you can rest assured that the class will not be cancelled.
Dec 16 - 17 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST

Virtual
Mar 17 - 18 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT

Herndon, VA or Virtual
Jun 17 - 18 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT

Herndon, VA or Virtual
Sep 15 - 16 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT

Herndon, VA or Virtual

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Driving Breakthrough Innovation FAQs

No, you will earn a Transformational Technical Leadership Program Certificate for successfully completing 5 of the 6 courses in this program, issued by Duke Corporate Education and Learning Tree. You will earn a course completion certificate after completing each course, also issued by Duke CE and Learning Tree.

After successfully completing the first required course and 4 electives, Learning Tree will provide you with your Program Certificate, issued by Duke Corporate Education and Learning Tree, which will include details on how you can share your badge/certificate.

Yes. Start with the 2-Day course, Navigating Increasing Complexity: Duke CE Certificate Course, if you are on the Program Certificate Track, and then choose 4 additional elective courses to complete the program. If you are not interested in the Certificate Program, you can take any course at any time.

You will be able to take these live instructor-led courses online via Learning Tree's, optimized for virtual learning, AnyWare® platform. You can also attend in-person at the Education Centers shown for each public course date. In addition, we can deliver these courses at a location of your choice as in-person or hybrid for private team training. Contact us for details.

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