"Innovation Toolkit" workshop



Date Wednesday, 14 January 2009



Time 9.00 AM to 5.30 PM



Venue MCCIA Trade Towers
ICC Complex, 403, Senapati Bapat
Road, Pune 411016



Charges Rs. 2, 000 per person
Includes instructional fees and materials



This workshop will provide an overview of the innovation process and is
intended to show how select specific modes and frameworks work together
to generate new ideas, opportunities, and strategic roadmaps. The
sessions will cover the full range of the innovation process from
understanding users, context, framing insights and exploring concepts to
frame solutions and realize offerings. Useful tools and frameworks that
support various modes in the innovation process will be introduced.



Zachary Jean Paradis, Experience Strategist with the design and
technology consultancy Sapient and Adjunct Faculty at Illinois Institute
of Technology's Institute of Design, will lead a one day workshop
covering frameworks for how to think about Innovation and to apply tools
to be successful doing it.



We look forward to your participation / participants from your company
for this workshop. Please direct any queries you have to me at +91 –
9921378687 or mail hrridaysh@...
<mailto:hrridaysh@...>



Overview

Almost every professional magazine, journal, conference, and conference
room is awash with the term "Innovation". There is a great deal
of discussion about why it is critical for the success and growth of
businesses. Many of these discussions search to "find the innovation
sweet spot," "fire up the innovation machine," or "drive
growth through innovation."

Despite the fact that there is much talk about the strategic need for
innovation, very few clearly know "how" to create innovation
repeatedly and reliably. Just talking and thinking about innovation
won't make a business successful. Businesses, and the people within
them, need to master the practice of "how" to innovate in order
to harness its power.

Workshop Schedule

* Strategies for Innovation - how to think about Innovation
* Seeing the World with New Eyes - finding opportunities in markets
* Identifying Opportunities and Exploring Concepts - finding
patterns in key trends and user insights
* Evaluating Concepts and Developing Integrated Roadmaps - Turning
ideas into reality

Facilitator



Zachary Jean Paradis is a strategist, designer, and author obsessed with
positively transforming people's lives. He is employed with the
human-centered consulting firm Sapient Corporation



His background in design, business, social sciences, and technology has
prepared him to work with companies to become more successful
innovators. He believes methods and design thinking can be used
strategically and manifest themselves in companies by creating organic
growth through flexible process, an open culture, and more compelling
products and services.



Companies and clients with whom he has worked include: Allstate,
Amazon.com, Citidel Group, Four Points Digital, Hyatt, JAM Productions,
KBA Marketing, MCI, Microsoft, Navigant Consulting, Platinum
Technologies, Phillip Morris, Miller Brewing, RadioWave, RollingStone,
SAP, SPIN, Unilever, Universal Music Group, Yahoo!, among others.



Registration



1. Call +91 9921378687
2. Send an email to hrridaysh@...
<mailto:hrridaysh@...>



About us



Elephantversity is an initiative of Elephant Strategy + Design.
Elephantversity has initiated Elephantversity Institute of Innovation
– India's first institute of innovation. The institute has been
created in response to increasing industry need for trained Innovation
Leaders. Visit www.elephantversity.com <http://www.elephantversity.com/>
for more details.



Hrridaysh Deshpande

Elephantversity Institute of Innovation

13 Kumar Srushti, Survey No. 1

Pashan NDA Road

Pune 411 021

Maharashtra, India

Tel.: +91 - 20-22951055/59, 22951160 / 61

Fax: +91 - 20-22951055

Mobile: +91 – 0 - 9921378687

Web: www.elephantversity.com <http://www.elephantversity.com/>





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