Unlock Innovative Thinking and Envision the Future

Discover an innovative mindset filled with future-ready solutions to become a disruptive leader in your industry.

Created by: FutureThink Skill-building
Embrace Simplicity. Unleash Innovation.

What Will I Learn?

• Enhance Idea Evaluation: Learn to assess ideas objectively using strategic criteria with FutureThink's Idea Screener tool.
• Master Risk Analysis: Learn to analyze both short and long-term risks associated with innovative projects.
• Streamline Your Innovation Pipeline: Discover the five steps to smoothly advance projects through the innovation pipeline.
• Metric-Driven Success: Learn to establish leading and lagging metrics for evaluating project success.
• Foster Innovation: Clear obstacles to spark innovation.
• Problem-Solving: Master a framework for creative thinking and solving complex problems.
• Risk Management: Determine your company's risk tolerance.
• Team Empowerment: Boost team empowerment by expediting decision-making.
• Innovation Focus: Inspire a commitment to innovation for yourself and your teams.
• Revenue Potential: Identify potential areas of increased revenue within existing products and services
• Future Vision: Nurture your ability to envision beyond the present state and ideate the possible future
• Active Reinvention: Embrace fresh perspectives and reconceptualization of your offerings
• Gradual Enhancement: Accelerate your proficiency in incremental innovation
• Customer Understanding: Discover untapped business potential
• Mutual Benefit: Decode customer needs in a way that benefits you too
• Unmet Customer Needs: Focus on unfulfilled customer needs to unearth new paths for business opportunity
• Emphasize Innovation: Make innovation fun and clear for teams.
• Inspire and Aim: Discover inspiring ideas as a team and establish clear innovation goals.
• Incentivize Integration: Add innovation to your reward program
• Consider Bold Ideas: Broaden your horizons to consider bold ideas for partnerships.
• Diversify Insights: Leverage the power of different perspectives.
• Uncover New Partnerships: Discover possibilities in previously untapped areas.
• Envision the Future: Use the brain's natural capacity to absorb information to aid your team in future planning.
• Forecast Trends: Organize information about prospective trends that will impact your industry.
• Advance Your Leadership: Take your forward-thinking leadership to the next level.
• Strategize Proactively: Equip your team to foresee external threats to your company and adapt to future challenges.
• Mitigate Potential Risks: Help your teams identify, prepare for, and influence emerging issues.
• Embrace Creativity: Think outside the box in the face of constraints.

Requirements

• No experience needed.

Target audience

• Business Managers interested in innovative leadership skills, including the screening of potential ideas, balancing a portfolio of innovative concepts, evaluating innovation efforts, overcoming barriers to innovation, promoting team empowerment, defining risk, perfecting problem-solving strategies, and adhering to innovative practices.
• Business Managers interested in envisioning future possibilities, amplifying the value of existing products or services, unveiling new prospects and markets, refining customer experiences, and tapping into fresh opportunities using existing services.
• Business Managers interested in defining innovation for your team, motivating inspirational behaviors, leveraging collaborative efforts, and identifying unconventional partners to generate innovative work.
• Business Managers interested in aligning on strategic visions, forecasting trends, identifying potential external threats, influencing emerging issues, and innovating from areas of constraint.