Accredited and Assured innovation training programmes

Build your innovation capacity assured and certified innovation skills programmes

a unique fusion of skills

and experience

Our focus We offer a range of services designed to help you solve complex challenges and build innovation capacity in your organisation.

People and skills

Systems and resources

We help senior management build strategic focus on innovation, as well as better support processes to overcome internal barriers.

We work with you to select and adopt the right ideas and innovation management platforms that enable diverse internal and external communities to discover and unpack challenges and opportunities.

We help you establish the right mix of skills and supplement your team with relevant expertise and experience. We offer team and interim specialists and project executives.

We offer formally assured learning and skills development through the line from leadership coaching and executive support through to onboarding programmes, innovation community development and broader culture works.

We support redefinition of IP and commercialisation stance, enabling collaboration and investment both internally and with supply chain so you can realise more value from the innovation works you undertake.

Where there are practical constraints such as lack of internal resource, we act as a boundary spanner to the external enterprise and innovation communities, developing intelligence, funding and sponsorship for pilots and developments.

Building innovation capacity Working closely together Our focus is on building sustainable innovation capability through focus on 7 key areas.

We help establish successful innovation ecosystems that are bespoke to your enterprise.

It is critical to consider how to inspire and encourage participation BEFORE implementing innovations systems and new processes.

We ensure success in ideas management processes by avoiding ‘Systems focus’ and applying experience in rollout and governance.

Developing culture Our assured learning programmes are designed to engage your workforce and management at all levels Our goal

Innovation learning for everyone

To create common language and understanding of contemporary innovation practice and potential through the line.

We work with you to integrate our solutions with existing systems and processes for training and culture, working closely with your operational management on content, timing and engagement processes.

Our programmes engage at every level from those joining the business as apprentices and graduates, to those leading, defining ambition and providing strategic focus.

We help you establish ‘communities of action’ and tribes of innovation practitioners and champions.

Our work as an applied learning partner often includes a mix of assured training and practical assistance for those taking on more formal roles in the Community This may be delivered alongside broader engagement programmes such as best practice visits, expert talks, lunchtime sessions, and development of engaging content for appropriate internal communications channels.

Creating real results An award winning innovation partner We practically deliver open innovation programmes providing form and identity to your initiatives.

Our initiatives express the latest thinking in co-creation and human-centred approaches. ‘Our approach to learning is an expression of or practical work. Our courses are very applied with various opportunities to use new skills within the organisation.

Under the guidance of our trainers and mentors, our goal is enable the beginnings of true organisational change from session 1.�

Paul Sutherland, Managing Director

Innovation for everyone Through the line skills enhancement We have established a complete set of learning programmes that are designed to engage at all levels.

Our assured courses can be deployed independently or as part of an integrated culture and skills programme. ‘I’m excited by how our programmes enable participants to immediately apply innovation practice within their role and department.

We provide a framework of innovation practice, a shared knowledge base and every single session asks participants to get involved, regardless of their position within the organisation.’ Sarah Cox, Innovation Training Lead

Forge a community of action Innovation CHAMPIONS

Content:

Essential to success in establishing contemporary innovation ecosystems is the distribution of responsibilities and engagement across different departments and subcultures. This programme is designed to supplement +ADD’s work in developing your organisations agile innovation capacity and includes a formal assured course.

> Knowledge management for innovation > Being a champions for innovation > Actively finding problems > Building relationships across departments > Tacit skills > Finding sponsors > Funding ideas and sourcing resources beyond the business > Building an influencing network > Origins of design thinking > Understanding innovation theory > Recognising corporate culture > Enabling creativity > Integrated leadership and followership

This award winning programme supports development of common language, knowledge sharing and community development.

Working with senior sponsors we establish clear strategic vision and strategic focus on the innovation tasks, both areas of focus and the organizational innovation practice development tasks. The intent is to establish a shared platform of understanding and practice for the organisation with individuals establishing clear understanding of their role as enablers, facilitators and coaches.

The programme introduces participants to innovation as a function of their corporate life, providing some of the origins and theoretical underpinning of design thinking and agile innovation.

Developing intrapreneurship and practiced collaborative innovation skills, the course sets out to build both leader and follower skills within a servant leader framework to enable them to initiate change within an innovation framework.

Graduate cohort at a UK utility

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Communicating about innovation Navigating the corporate environment Selecting suitable operational challenges Developing an ‘intrapreneurial’ approach Stimulating and exploiting creativity and Ideation Problem/pain and opportunity identification Applied problem solving Critical thinking & problem-solving abilities Design Thinking – Search; Solve; Ship methods Minimum viable solution creation, testing, and iteration Improved communication of complex ideas and pitching Effective followership, and self-directed working “We are delighted to be working with +ADD in enabling our vision for an agile innovation ecosystem and scaling innovation capacity. The team are dedicated and move at a refreshing pace!

Within a couple months of getting started, we have organised an accredited training programme for our innovation champions and a host of other topical projects.”

Tertius Rust, Innovation Lead at South East Water

fire STARTERS A very practical program, designed to enable degree apprentices and inductees to become a positive force for change.

The programme enables positive curiosity and soft skills that assist in enabling fresh thinking, selecting winning ideas and navigating corporate environments to secure sponsorship for positive change and ‘innovation with purpose’.

The programme creates ‘firestarters’ capable of working practically with others to promote overcoming problems and improving efficiency, applying design thinking principles and agile innovation techniques in the everyday. Learnings offer a platform of enterprising skills supporting progressive change in the workplace and team environments.

The course recognises the need for governance and focuses on helping participants in selecting practical projects and initiatives with genuine potential.

The corporate goal in adopting such training is to build a design led culture and to support inherent capacity for accelerated change and transformation in an ever-changing business environment.

The course suits both technical and service personnel in both internal/ external facing roles degree apprenticeships .

Empower influencers Change MAKERS

Content:

Candidates for this programme will typically engage with and co-ordinate workgroups. They typically have five years’ experience or more.

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Our goals is to scale contemporary innovation thinking and practice by supporting influencers to embed agile and design led innovation culture, and focus teams on delivering innovation goals.

In addition to workshop sessions, the program incorporates case study speakers, work shadowing, understanding how to build and contribute to communities of practice, and other tools for building knowledge transfer, and leadership skills.

The programme works with small cohorts, in staggered starts recognising differing pressures of individuals and their roles. We also provide online support to ensure all programme members are up to date with course concepts, and in touch with their network group, even during times of high work commitment.

As with some of our other programmes, Changemakers can integrate and take advantage of our innovation exchange visits.

(See our website for details).

Recognising existing culture Mindset development Servant Leadership development Straddling the manager/ follower line Leading innovation initiatives Leading cultural development Practical project orientation Project evaluation Cultural project- instilling culture in your project team Capturing tacit knowledge & skills within team Building future view Understanding stakeholders Cross functional teams- resourcing Introduction to unlocking ‘Other People’s Money’ Using grants and co-finance Innovating in the supply chain “I was impressed by +ADD’s ability to be in the moment, sense the room and pick the right tools and methods.

The approach enables fresh thinking and gets the best out of everyone and their perspectives.

Jeremy Heath, Head of Innovation, SES Water

Drive innovation Content: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Geared up for innovation New approaches to innovation Boosting innovation performance New product service portfolio management Ensuring shareholder buy-in Opening up problems Building a culture of trust Breakthrough products and services Creating an innovation strategy The innovation road map Managing types innovation Business model innovation Managing innovation performance Customer insight and hidden needs Innovation processes for breakthrough products “As well as assisting in aspects of innovation strategy and culture, the team has delivered practical open innovation projects such as gamification competitions, hackathons, design sprints and challenges across various aspects of our operations�

Nigel Watson, CIO of Northumbrian Water Group

Rain MAKERS This programme is designed for organisation leadership and senior managers who want to accelerate development of dynamic innovative environment and culture.

The programme is applied and facilitates leadership consideration of pillars of innovation strategy and agendas for/ relationship between foresight, innovation, transformation and change.

The programme is delivered in collaboration with the lead or principle manager of corporate innovation and senior HR/Skills development lead and is tailored to identified needs following a review.

Working together, the programme encourages exploration of drivers and barriers to innovation in the context of the innovation function and ecosystem.

Working with individual leaders and the broader team the programme looks to share best practice in corporate innovation structure and operation, innovation culture development and explores directed strategic function and practice.

This is delivered through visits with leaders in similar industries to learn innovation and transformation best practice, facilitated working groups to explore how innovation strategy, systems and culture can be effectively developed within your organisation, and one-to-one coaching with an executive specialist to support participants development as innovative leaders.

Specialist courses, funding and more Taking it to the next level!

For organisations and individuals seeking to embed more advanced skills in contemporary and agile innovation, we offer a range of specialist workshops and courses.

Bespoke programmes and partnering Our approach is flexible and we support apprenticeship programmes, university accredited modules and more.

Talk to us to explore how we can work together.

ILM Assurance Our programmes are assured by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM).

Funding Funding is available for several programmes such as local economic skills funds and apprenticeship levy support.

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Introduction to innovation strategy Innovation readiness benchmarking Innovation ecosystem development Innovation project management Design led innovation practitioner Design thinking in practice Design sprint management Innovation funding Building your innovation network IP management and protecting your ideas Ideas management

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