TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

At True North Innovation, we are keen to move away from the traditional 'preach and leave' method. Instead we work with you and your team to find out what your needs are (e.g. where are the knowledge gaps, how many people are to be trained, what method of learning suits you best, what is your availability) and adapt our approach accordingly.

We also carry out follow up to ensure that the learning is being adopted and encourage ways to improve this.

The result is a personalised mentoring style approach that encourages better adoption of ideas and improved longer-term outcomes. We offer courses in:

Systematic Innovation Workshop – this 1-day workshop is an introduction to some of the tools and techniques for systematic innovation. It is a very practical session and you will be able to leave the workshop with the knowledge to apply TRIZ to all aspects of your life.

You will learn from:

• Short presentations of the theory of systematic innovation
• Opportunity to try out exercises on real case studies
• Chance to create an action plan for how these tools can be utilised in your business

Course Objectives

• Learn about inventive tools you can use every day, such as Functional Analysis, Contradiction Matrix, 48 Parameters and 40 Principles
• How patterns of innovation repeat and how you can learn from the past
• How to focus on the ideal final result rather than settle on incremental improvement
• How to make use of idle resources for an improved outcome at little or no cost

Length:	One-Day
Includes:	Tuition, workshop materials, lunch, a CD of TRIZ Contradiction Matrix and copy of TRIZ Companion by Darrell Mann
Course Contact:	+44(0)1698 389 456

Improve your Market Knowledge – a practical half-day to enable you to understand the key principles in market scanning tools and technologies. You will learn through practical example some alternative approaches to gathering market intelligence on your markets, competitors and customers. You will learn from:

• Short presentations on the relevant theories and knowledge
• Practical exercises to try out the theory
• Opportunity to consider how this might be incorporated into your business

Course Objectives

• Understand the importance of gathering market knowledge.
• Cover some of the approaches (primary and secondary data collection) to gathering market intelligence
• Introduce practical exercises for using secondary methods of data collection
• Introduce some tools for initial market analysis
• Practical exercises to try these analysis tools
• Action plan for how these methods and knowledge could be adopted in your business

(Note: This course can be combined with Increasing the Value of your Innovation.)

Length:	Half-Day
Course Contact:	+44(0)1698 389 456

Increase the Value of Your Innovation – a half-day course focused on understanding how to map the key (non-physical) strategic knowledge and intellectual assets in your organisation.

You will learn from:

• Short presentations on the relevant theories and knowledge
• Practical exercises to try out the theory
• Opportunity to consider how this might be incorporated into your business

Course Objectives

• Understand how to create and maintain an asset register
• Defensive and offensive strategies on optimising value
• Extracting value from the non-physical assets of the organisation

(Note: This course can be combined with Improve Your Market Knowledge.)

Length:	Half-Day
Course Contact:	+44(0)1698 389 456