Driving Breakthrough Innovation: Duke CE Certificate Program

50% of all innovation efforts fail to realize the expected value because the innovation doesn't address the real problem or execution fails. The technical leader, who leads many of the innovation efforts in organizations, needs a solid, customer-centered approach to initiating, developing, and deploying innovative solutions. Learners will engage in a customer-centered design process from framing to implementation and practice discovering, framing, and driving successful innovation efforts that create sustainable value.

Driving Breakthrough Innovation: Duke CE Certificate Program Benefits

• In this Driving Breakthrough Innovation course, you will:

  • Describe how the application of a design thinking process can yield offerings that create, deliver, and capture sustainable and differentiated value in the marketplace
  • Apply a customer-centric approach to elicit the needs of the customer
  • Define innovation and its multiple sources
  • Innovate on both customer-facing products and internally-facing processes
  • Apply an ideation approach to ensure broad diversity of thought and perspective in developing a concept
  • Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching

• Driving Breakthrough Innovation Prerequisites

  • Complete Learning Tree course, Navigating Increasing Complexity: Duke CE Certificate Course
  • Some leadership experience in a technical or business environment can be helpful.

• Driving Breakthrough Innovation Exam and Certificate Information

  • No Exam
  • This course is part of the Duke CE Transformational Technical Leadership Program, designed by Learning Tree in partnership with Duke Corporate Education. Upon completion of the 5 courses that make up the program, attendees will receive the Transformational Technical Leadership certificate from Duke CE.

Driving Breakthrough Innovation Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction

This module contains the following learning topics:

• The Transformational Technical Leadership Framework
• What’s in your wallet?
• The course learning Objectives
• The course Learning Journey

Module 2: Doer and Leader

This module contains the following learning topics:

• Innovation today
• Innovator is everyone’s role
• Innovation versus creativity
• The leader’s role in innovation

Module 3: What is an Innovation?

This module contains the following learning topics:

• Innovation is a discipline
• Innovation is customer-centric
• Innovation is solving customer problems
• Types of Innovation

Module 4: Big Ideas Are Never the Problem

This module contains the following learning topics:

• The discipline of criticizing your ideas
• Reframing to see the real problem
• Fail forward fast repeatedly
• Achieving an innovative solution: the Innovator’s DNA

Module 5: Innovator’s DNA: Empathizing/Reframing

This module contains the following learning topics:

• Digging deeper
• Pain points
• Reframing
• Solving the right problem

Module 6: Innovator’s DNA: Ideating

• This module contains the following learning topics:
• Operating outside-in
• Expanding perception and thinking
• A diversity of perspectives
• The challenges of attaching to a single idea

Module 7: Innovator’s DNA: Experimenting

This module contains the following learning topics:

• Cycles of testing
• Loops of learning
• Managing failure
• The gift of unexpected results

Module 8: Innovator’s DNA: Piloting

This module contains the following learning topics:

• Pressure testing solutions in the real world
• Habits and routines that support curiosity
• The continuous learning mindset
• Challenge the status quo!