Innovation & Risk-Taking Courses

Innovation is one of the keys to competitive advantage. People in many functional areas are responsible for designing or improving products, processes, and systems. Barnes & Conti provides a suite of programs and services to help develop the competencies required for successful innovation at all levels of your organization.

This curriculum engages you in developing the mindsets, skill-sets, tools, and processes needed to build a culture of innovation. We help organizations deal with the risks involved in innovation and change through an intelligent decision process that avoids analysis paralysis and mitigates the negative impacts of risk-taking. By applying these tools and methods, you will harness the creative energy of your teams and organization so that you can:

• Solve persistent problems.
• Respond to new business opportunities
• Build stakeholder commitment and support for innovative ideas
• Take more intelligent risks using assessment and mitigation strategies.
• Lead and manage innovative projects that create real value.

Our courses in this area include:

	Managing Innovation: Driving Ideas from Strategic Initiative to Value Creation In this program, participants will discover and practice the mindsets and skill sets needed to increase both the quality and quantity of innovation.
	Intelligent Risk-Taking: From Vision to Action This program provides participants with practical tools and processes to identify their risk-taking profile and compare with others. Participants will apply a framework for making intelligent decisions about which risks to take.
	Creating a Culture for Risk-Taking and Innovation: A Guide for Leaders This program helps participants encourage entrepreneurial innovation and risk-taking in their organization, identifying barriers to creativity and innovation and developing ways to decrease their impact.
	Applied Creativity: Solving Problems and Responding to Opportunities In this program, participants will practice using creative thinking tools to break through persistent problems and take advantage of opportunities.