Business Innovation Foundations

Learn more about innovation practices and the skills and mindsets required for innovation.

Introduction

• Getting started with innovation

1. Overview of Business Innovation

• Determining innovation opportunities
• Shifting from a building to a learning mindset
• Understanding the three skills of an innovator

2. Learning about Your Customer (or User)

• Understanding the benefits of customer interviews
• Conducting customer interviews

3. Test to Learn

• Generating ideas for innovative solutions
• Identifying assumptions based on your ideas
• Testing your assumptions about an innovation
• Testing your assumptions: An intergalactic example

4. Build a Culture that Encourages Innovation

• Understanding what behaviors create psychological safety
• Applying agile principles to innovate
• Learning from intelligent failure to innovate
• Persisting through innovation challenges
• Avoiding common innovation pitfalls
• Communicating innovation progress through story