Understanding How the SIT Approach Delivers Innovation
A 1.5-Day Workshop for Innovation Leaders
The Performance Excellence Network (PEN) together with its partner, Systematic Inventive Thinking, is offering this workshop to help innovation leaders learn about the guiding principles and innovation tools developed by SIT. Participants will learn and explore how SIT guiding principles and related SIT tools have benefited many of the world’s leading innovative organizations and how they can benefit their organization.
Special Event Sponsor: Hennepin County
Center of Innovation and Excellence
Dates: May 14-15, 2015
Location: Hennepin County Government Center Room A-2350
Capacity: The workshop is limited to 30 people to generate maximum interaction between the SIT facilitator and the organizations participating.
Workshop Focus: Exploring the SIT Innovation Guiding Principles and Tools for innovative problem solving, product and process design, strategy development, and more.
Prerequisites: None
Pre-Work: None
Cost: All pricing is for PEN members and the entire 1.5-Day workshop and requires team members to be from the same organization. All course materials and daily continental breakfast and lunch are included in each day.
- 1 or 2 people $700 each
- Teams of 3 people $600 each
- Teams members above 3 people $500 each
- Non-members add $300 per person to participate
- Please register your entire team for the workshop by emailing: [email protected]
Participation is limited to 30 people to allow for maximum interaction with the facilitator.
Facilitator:
Amit Mayer is a SIT senior innovation expert with 15 years of experience in leading diverse innovation processes across different industries and all sizes of organizations. Amit has global experience facilitating SIT innovation sessions in problem solving, process improvement, strategy, product development and marketing. Locally, Amit has worked with General Mills, Andersen Windows, and the City of Minneapolis, to name just a few.
Amit is an internationally recognized speaker and educator in the field of innovation in institutes and conferences, including: the Singapore School of Business and the Society for Concurrent Product Development.
General Description
SIT’s vision is to help people design and implement a long-term culture of innovation in their company or organization. In support of this goal, SIT helps create an impactful program of innovation that runs across teams and departments to transform the organization, while promoting its strategic goals.
SIT’s 3 Innovation Pillars Model
Each Spark program is based on SIT’s organizational innovation model. This model consists of 3 Innovation Pillars, which – when combined – provide the framework for impactful innovation:
- Results – innovation activities that generate tangible innovative projects which create immediate return-on-innovation.
- Skills – providing employees with the skills required to think innovatively and manage innovation in the organization.
- Structures – putting in place a plan that supports a culture of innovation including management involvement and commitment, as well as cross organizational understanding and cooperation.
Each Spark program consists of activities containing elements from all three pillars, although one of the pillars will typically be dominant at a given time. For example, initially the focus is on creating immediate and midterm results to achieve a quick ROI (Return on Innovation), but this will also create the engagement to drive the innovation buzz and momentum, and supply participants in the project with practical tools for innovative thinking.
Underpinning each Spark session is the SIT “Ripple Model” for Innovation which pulls together SIT’s academically derived methodology, as well as its cumulative learning and work experience of furthering innovation globally since 1995. This map includes the tools, principles, skills, proficiencies, and activities needed to help companies and the people in them to achieve their personal and business innovation objectives.
Key Outcomes
At the conclusion of this Spark Workshop each organization will have:
- Applied several SIT tools and guiding principles in group discussions of case studies presented by the SIT facilitator.
- Created an awareness of how SIT could help their organization build a culture of innovation.
Who should attend?
Any leader that is expected to make innovation happen and deliver expected results will benefit from understanding the guiding principles and tools taught by applying it to their organization.
- Senior Leaders, Executives, and Administrators
- Directors, Managers, Department Heads
- Team Leaders Expected To Make Change Happen
- Change Agents Within Organizations
- Continuous Improvement & Performance Excellence Leaders
- Team/project sponsors
It is highly recommended that organizations send their leadership team and those who will subsequently review team progress and results.
