Technical Skills

Applied Statistics

This class will provide participants with an overview of statistical concepts and techniques for analysis with a real-world emphasis, using software. The focus will be on tools that the participant can take back to their workplace and implement to help solve formerly unanswerable problems.

Time: 8 a.m.–4 p.m.

PDHs: 7 | CEUs: 0.7

Price: $995

Immediate Takeaways

Learn basic statistical concepts and tools such as:

• Data types

• Measures of central tendency

• Measures of variability

• Graphical methods

• Sampling

Learning Outcomes

• Understand basic statistical concepts

• Utilize graphical techniques to obtain a baseline of current performance

• Convert everyday questions into a statistical format

• Answer questions statistically and practically using data

Who Should Attend

• Product, service and technology development managers

• Innovation professionals and their team members

• Research and development managers

• Product managers

• Development portfolio managers

• Technical marketing professionals

Associated Courses

• Innovation Immersion Workshop

Benefits

• Describe ‘diffusion’ and its role in winner and loser projects

• Explain why some technologies diffuse much faster than others

• Describe S-curve ‘phenomenon’ as a roadmap for diffusion

• Create strategies and tactics during the product development process to accelerate diffusion

• Recommend actions that lead to “earlier” industry adoption

Diffusion of Technological Innovation

This workshop will look at the way products, services and technologies make their way (diffuse) into everyday use. This course looks at solving problems using technology, often in innovative ways that may or may not be accepted into the marketplace. Why did it take so long for Bluetooth® to be accepted into the market? How can we get the marketplace to accept our new products, services and innovations more readily?

Time: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

PDHs: 7 | CEUs: 0.7

Price: $995

Immediate Takeaways

• REAL innovations, winners and losers

• How to use the “S – Curve” as a roadmap for innovation diffusion

• Design a roadmap that is drawn at the beginning and throughout the product development journey

• Steps to accelerate value creation

Learning Outcomes

• Understand what diffusion is and how it makes winners of some tech innovations

• Understand why some innovations are accepted by an industry and some are not

• Understand how to facilitate and accelerate “diffusion” (acceptance).

Who Should Attend

• Organizational leaders who are accountable for business growth through innovation

• Participants in innovation efforts who want to sharpen their understanding about the entire process

• Anyone who is interested in bringing more innovation into their organization

Associated Courses

• Diffusion of Technological Innovation

Benefits

• A working definition of innovation

• The business imperative for innovation

• Why possible future scenarios are valuable in the innovation process

• Futures analysis: tools and demonstrations

• Using creative problem-solving tools for ideation

• Utilizing ways to screen, sort and select ideas for further development

• Innovation execution: from product development to marketplace launch

• Successful management of innovation

Innovation Immersion Workshop

Are you comfortable with your plans to achieve top-line growth forecasts in the coming years? Well, no one has a crystal ball to accurately predict swings in the marketplace, but the Innovation Immersion Workshop program provides the right knowledge and tools to inject innovation into your business plans and improve your ability to reach growth targets.

This two-day workshop is designed to immerse you in the entire innovation lifecycle, from establishing the business imperative of innovation in the 21st century all the way through to marketplace launch. You will experience futures analysis tools to provide a different context for ideation, use some different ideation tools that will stretch your thinking, and examine the hard work that goes into taking an “innovative idea” to market. Topics in innovation management will also be explored such as the impact of culture and organization, and Stage-Gate® and portfolio management processes. Each topic will include hands-on experiential exercises to enhance the learning process. Be prepared to be engaged and involved during the full two days. For maximum impact, the workshop can be tailored as a custom-designed, on-site program specifically to address your customers, capabilities and opportunities.

Time: 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

PDHs: 7 | CEUs: 0.7

Price: $995

Immediate Takeaways

• Explain to your boss why innovation is important for your company to thrive in the 21st century

• Identify when futures analysis is valuable for your innovation efforts and explain methods and tools that would be appropriate

• Contribute to successful futures analysis sessions

• Utilize ideation methods to enhance creative problem-solving, then fully participate in these ideation sessions

• Apply methods to screen, sort and select innovation concepts; justify further development for those concepts

• Turn a concept into product specifications and prototypes for evaluation and confirmation

• Contribute to the successful market launch of your innovation

• Apply new understanding of innovation management issues to enhance the innovation impact in your company

Who Should Attend

• Anyone responsible for instituting information security with a small to medium business

• Technical staff

Benefits

• Demonstration on how to perform recon on a company or individual

Protecting Your Business and Yourself in the Digital Age

We protect our homes, businesses, and vehicles, but we do not always think about our data and our online presence. In the digital age, it is just as important to protect your data as it is to lock your car.

In this course, we will focus on the basics of information security by examining network level security, wireless security, mobile device security, online dangers (such as social networks) and physical security. Throughout the course, we will look at how easy some of these attacks are and how you can defend against them.

Time: 8 a.m.–12 p.m.

PDHs: 4.0 | CEUs: 0.4

Price: $695

Immediate Takeaways

• Better understand security threats and how attackers look at companies and individuals as potential targets

• Gain knowledge for protecting your personal and organization’s electronic assets

• Understand security threats to your information

• Better understand how to protect yourself online and in the real world from different attacks

Who Should Attend

Any individual or team interested in understanding how Scrum can improve workplace efficiency, including:

• Engineers

• Developers

• Project managers Associated Courses

• Scrum and Agile Project Management

• Project Management Benefits

• Gain insight into the tradeoffs of adopting Agile or Scrum processes

• Get hands-on experience participating in a Scrum team

• Learn how to customize Scrum for specific types of projects