Fostering an Innovation Culture
It takes more than just a vision to sustain real innovation.
Why do businesses still struggle to achieve the practices and benefits of innovation? Because despite the focus we put on it, innovation is largely driven by organisational thinking and cultures, or an understanding of how you ‘do’ innovation across all levels of the organisation. For leaders, it can be hard to cut through the noise and figure out what needs to happen to make meaningful progress part of day-to-day operations.
What you'll learn
In this program, we'll go beyond the buzzword to understand what innovation can look like right across your business, as well as the cultural shifts needed to get there. We'll unpack the frameworks and principles of practical innovation, the tools to uncover opportunities, and the steps you can take as a leader to nurture innovation at work.
You'll develop the critical skills to:
- Understand what innovation means in modern business
- Learn about the factors that contribute to an innovation culture
- Assess opportunities in your own business, and what gets in the way
These skills will accelerate your ability to:
- Explore the frameworks that contribute to effective innovation
- Learn how to uncover innovation opportunities for your customers and your business
- Reflect on the role you can play as a leader in fostering innovative behaviours
Who Should Attend?
Managers and leaders who are responsible for tackling strategic challenges, driving growth, and those who want to explore the mindsets, frameworks and practical steps you can take to enable innovation behaviours to flourish in your team or organisation.
Program dates and times
2022 program dates
6 June - 1 July 2022
Session times and details confirmed upon registration.
Investment
AUD $1,595
Digital badging
Upon successful completion of this program, you will be awarded a digital badge to share with your network. Find out more about digital badges.
More information
This four-week program brings together a fascinating mix of theory, reflection and practical application. You'll be challenged to think deeply and differently about innovation in your workplace – and learn to apply this mindset to your real workplace situations.
Explore what is an "innovation culture" is
Gaining a greater understanding of the context your organisation operates within, and where opportunities for innovation lie within our business.
The frameworks for innovation
Analysing how your teams and people could use human centred design, experimentation agile to better understand the customer.
Uncover opportunities to innovate
Exploring how you can apply business model innovation, identifying opportunities and being aware of trends that might negatively impact your business.
Unpack the skills, structures and systems to hardwire leading innovation culture
Knowing, in tangible, practical terms, what you need to do as a leader to put all of these components of innovation culture into practice. Explore how existing structures can stifle innovation and how you can apply business model innovation to rethink how you exchange value with customers.
Each week, we’ll look at the different aspects of fostering innovation and an innovation culture.
Through live experience sessions, you'll engage in a mix of content delivery, guided discussions, hands-on activities, peer learning and mentoring, and reflection. A personal project gives you a chance to put your new skills and knowledge to the test.
Managers and leaders who are responsible for tackling strategic challenges, driving growth, and those who want to explore the mindsets, frameworks and practical steps you can take to enable innovation behaviours to flourish in your team or organisation.
Blended Program:
6 June - 1 July 2022
Session times and details confirmed upon registration.
Investment
$1,595
Upon successful completion of this program, you will be awarded a digital badge to share with your network. Find out more about digital badges.
Julia Birks
Program Director
As the associate Strategic Design Director & Capability Specialist at Isobar, Julia is passionate about anchoring an organisation’s strategy around great customer experiences and outcome-driven work.
Over the last sixteen years, Julia has gained experience across industrial, print, digital and service design, helping organisations and teams work better together. Through an engaging, transparent and human-centered approach, she helps to embed principles and practices that balance customers’ needs with an organisations and encourages change through iterative experimentation.
Recently, Julia’s worked with some of Australia’s biggest brands and leaders to deliver training and capability uplift programs. She’s also taught design at RMIT, General Assembly, Monash University, and QUT.
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