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innovation by design

Summer School for Professionals

Come Boost Your Innovation Chops!

Tuesdays, June 10 - August 5

4:30-5 pm - mix & sip

(wine, sparkling lemonade & snacks)

5-7 pm – learn & explore

3501 N Mountain Avenue, Tucson

SUMMER SCHOOL 2014

Innovation - the new buzz word – but what exactly is it? Throughout the summer we will explore research-based innovation methods. Transform the way you think - and the success of your company. Innovation By Design summer school is a hands-on experiential workshop that incorporates science, art, intuition, data and emotional intelligence. Each session consists of a brief didactic, a sprint (short, intensive hand on experience with the method) and collaborative integration. Whether re-designing a system, creating a new service line or re-inventing yourself this series will offer you tools to:

Enhance your business model.

Delight your customer's experience (in ways

your competitors don’t).

Jumpstart your team's innovative capacity.

Evaluate & act on your value proposition.

Differentiate yourself from competitors.

Shake it up. Re-energize!

The program is designed to accommodate single class registration as well as series registration. Join us for a glass of wine, sparkling lemonade and light snacks and build your innovation chops!

Build Your Innovation Chops Who Should Attend?

Nonprofit Leaders

Business Owners

Entrepreneurs

Leadership teams

Students

Professionals needing to

re-energize

Midcareer professionals

Anyone exploring a life or

career change

People who want to be

creative – whether it comes

naturally to you or not.

10 Types of Innovation:

Survey Your Company’s

Innovation Performance

June 10, 2014

Prior to initiating the innovation process, we must understand the environment and context in which we are working. We believe we understand our business context. We live it every day. The truth is that it is challenging to step back far enough to see the context without your everyday filters. The 10 Types of Innovation method will generate a profile and analysis of your: financial framework, core business processes, product (service) performance, product (service), systems, and customer experience. The result – surfacing opportunities for emergent innovation.

Session 1:

June 17, 2014

Many companies struggle to transform customer and stakeholder input into innovation. Customers and stakeholders provide feedback based on current or previous experiences - resulting in incremental not transformational change.

Applying the Opportunity Algorithm will yield new customer insights and enable you to elicit valuable and actionable input that sparks innovation and customer loyalty.

The Opportunity Algorithm: Turning Stakeholder Input

Into Innovation

Session 2:

We have all heard of writers block. Have you heard of innovation block? When facing our greatest challenges, dealing with constrained resources (human or financial) we often become paralyzed. Worse yet, we resort to a deficit mindset – and all innovation ceases.

Sources of inspiration and solutions are hidden in the most unlikely places. Reverse Innovation offers a new lens and fresh perspective with which to explore your unsolvable issues.

Reverse Innovation &

Breakthrough Innovation:

Lessons From the Field

June 24, 2014

Session 3:

July 8, 2014

Is it time to drive innovation throughout your company? Do you know the level of innovation performance that currently exists? Using two distinct innovation design methods you will uncover invisible work structures and connections that reinforce your processes Intentional or not - these structured and connections impact performance and culture.

We will walk through a validated innovation measurement inventory. Leave with a renewed understanding of how to grow an innovative organization.

Creating an Agile, Innovative

Culture: Assessing Today,

Planning for Tomorrow

Session 4:

July 15,2014

Gaining comfort with prototyping (yes even prototyping services and processes), you will learn how to test drive your concepts. Ensure your solutions are aligned with your business imperatives and are capable of engaging your customers!

Using two different innovation design methods you will practice aligning your ideas and research into a prototyping process.

Prototyping: It's Not Just for

Apple

Session 5:

July 22- August 5,2014

Innovation Playbook:

Disruptive Innovation

Designed for You

Because this three part session requires a baseline of innovation methodology; it is open only to individuals who have completed at least two other innovation classes.

Innovation is complicated. Designing and implementing growth plans are complex tasks for any company. When faced with an unexpected challenge you will pivot, shift focus and be ahead of the game with your Innovation Playbook. Built on the principles of disruptive innovation thought leader, Clay Christensen, you will design a playbook specific to your business and industry.

INTENSIVE

Session 6-8:

Sarah Jones is owner of Design Thinking Solutions, a company focused on creating capacity for organizations to experience breakthrough innovations and develop dynamic healthy workforces to sustain them. Her nearly 20 years of leadership and executive experience has resulted in award winning work cultures, systemic transformations and turnaround leadership for companies facing tremendous financial challenges. Sarah has had the pleasure to consult with companies across various sectors (healthcare, non-profit, small business) to create customer centric product and service delivery. She is passionate about infusing design thinking and innovation methodology in all sectors and businesses. Having offered training and consultation services locally, statewide, nationally and internationally, she is driven by a belief that life is too short to just show up every day. We must create a world that we are excited to live in and be a part of. Sarah holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration and is completing an MS in Strategic Design Management from Parsons, The New School in New York. Interested in substantial and meaningful change – not incremental change – she will encourage you to think big and stretch your innovation muscles.

ABOUT “THE TEACH”

SUMMER SCHOOL 2014

REGISTRATION

To register, email summerschool@designthinkingsolutions.com with:

Names and email addresses of attendees, please indicate primary contact

Company name (if applicable)

Series and/or session choices (Personal Pairings or A La Carte)

Your intended method of payment (check, Visa, MasterCard accepted)

Due to the experiential nature of the sessions, class size is limited. Priority will be given to complete series registrations. 10% discount for 2+ registrations from the same company.

FULL SERIES (8 week series: 5 class series plus 3 week intensive, 1 hour individual consultation)

$ 395.00

PERSONAL PAIRINGS: (any two sessions plus the 3 week intensive)

$285.00

A LA CARTE: (individual sessions)

$70.00

GROUP DISCOUNT: Groups of three+ from a single company – 10% discount

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520-481-3277

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