Empowering Leaders to Embed Innovation into Daily Practice
The Everyday Innovation programme is a comprehensive two-day development experience designed to equip leaders and teams with the tools, mindset, and strategies to develop a culture of continuous innovation. Whether delivered in-person or virtually, this programme focuses on integrating innovative thinking into the fabric of your organisation’s daily operations.
Programme Overview
This programme is structured to help you:
- Understand the importance of everyday innovation for organisational resilience.
- Define what innovation means within the context of your business.
- Identify leadership and team behaviors that promote an innovative culture.
- Align your business model to support and sustain innovation.
- Apply practical tools and techniques to transform ideas into actionable results.
Participants will receive a comprehensive toolkit containing all the methods and templates used throughout the programme, enabling immediate application within their teams.
Programme Agenda
Day 1: Innovation Strategy
Session 1: Innovation in Context
- Explore external trends and challenges impacting your organization.
- Engage in activities such as Horizon Scanning and Risk Analysis.
Session 2: Defining Everyday Innovation
- Articulate your organisation’s vision for innovation.
- Examine different types of innovation and their relevance to your business.
Session 3: Creating an Innovation Blueprint
- Develop a strategic plan outlining innovation priorities and initiatives.
Session 4: From Idea to Implementation
- Learn about innovation process models like design thinking.
- Understand how to build a business case for innovative ideas.
Day 2: Leading Innovation
Session 1: Ideation Techniques
- Discover methods to generate and refine business ideas.
- Understand the cognitive processes behind creative thinking.
Session 2: Collaborative Innovation
- Assess individual and team innovation styles.
- Practice co-creation and open innovation strategies.
Session 3: Cultivating an Innovative Culture
- Identify the attributes of effective innovation leaders.
- Learn how to drive cultural change to support innovation.
Session 4: Action Planning
- Consolidate learning into a practical action plan for your organisation.
Programme Delivery
The Everyday Innovation programme is available in flexible formats to suit your organisation’s needs:
- In-Person Workshops: Engaging sessions held at your preferred location.
- Virtual Sessions: Interactive online modules delivered via secure platforms.
- Hybrid Models: A combination of in-person and virtual elements to accommodate diverse teams.
Facilitator Profile
Dr. Jo North, Managing Director of The Big Bang Partnership and Associate Lecturer at the University of York, brings a wealth of experience in business creativity and innovation. Her unique blend of academic insight and practical expertise ensures that the programme is both thought-provoking and actionable.
Testimonials
“This fascinating and engaging course challenged us to think differently and alter our perspectives. The techniques can be used to deliver innovation in a strategic way but also to make incremental changes. The course offered time to be creative, be inspired by colleagues and to learn useable techniques.”
“Really excellent course. So pleased to be involved in this. Very inspiring, very usable. Challenging in all the right ways!”
Next Steps
Ready to embed innovation into your organisation’s daily practices? Contact us to discuss how the Everyday Innovation programme can be tailored to your team’s needs.
You will receive a full toolkit of the tools, techniques and templates used throughout the programme so that you can apply them directly.
Example agenda
Day 1: Innovation Strategy
Using proven, contemporary innovation frameworks the day will introduce you to key innovation concepts and provide you with the opportunity to apply them to your own organisation and roles.
Session 1: Innovation in Context
This session explores external trends, changes, opportunities and challenges that are likely to impact the organisation in the near to medium term. Activities include:
- Horizon Scanning
- Strategic Space Mapping
- Influencer Mapping
- Risk and Opportunity Analysis
Session 2: Everyday Innovation
Session 2 focuses on your vision, business model and commercial strategy in the light of the external analysis from the previous session. Activities include:
- Vision for Everyday Innovation
- Creating a canvas for the current and target business model
- Types of innovation – incremental, differential, disruptive – definitions, risks and benefits
- Innovation, resilience and commercialisation
Session 3: Creating an Innovation Blueprint
Building on the activities from Session 3, you will progress to creating an ‘Innovation Blueprint’ for the organisation. You will get hands on with:
- Innovation scoping
- Innovation prioritisation
Session 4: From Idea to Results
In this session, you’ll learn how to take an idea from concept to practical opportunity and implementation. You’ll gain an in-depth, practical and applied understanding of each of the following:
- Innovation process models – design thinking, user experience, customer design sprints
- From idea to monetisation – the innovation process and filter
- From idea to broader outcomes – creative outputs and values-driven, audience impact
- Creating an innovation business case for effective decision-making
Day 2: Leading Innovation
In Day 1, you will have worked on the context and organisational framework for innovation. Day 2 focuses on the people elements and creating an innovation culture in line with your strategy, business model and vision.
Session 1: Ideation
Session 1 focuses on what ideas are, how we have ideas and how to generate more and better business ideas. Content includes:
- Definition of an idea
- Business brainpower – how to have more and better ideas
- Whole brain thinking
Session 2: Co-creation
Having learned about individual idea generation, you’ll then move on to understanding innovation in teams. We use our Innovation Roadmap online questionnaire to identify your’ individual and team innovation style preferences. Activities include:
- Co-creation
- Team dynamics
- Creative facilitation
- Tools and techniques for innovation in teams
- Open innovation – how to innovate with customers, stakeholders and supply specialists
Session 3: Everyday Innovation Leadership
This session focuses on how to lead to create an organisation-wide culture of everyday innovation and commercial thinking.
- Role and attributes of innovation leaders
- Understanding the key ingredients of innovation culture
- Moving the needle – how to create a culture shift
- Measuring innovation success
Session 4: Putting Everything Together
The final session revisits and reviews all the key concepts from the programme, and how you have applied these concepts to identify actionable strategies for your organisation.
