Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Innovation Masterclass - Fast Stream
Government Campus and Civil Service Modernisation and Reform
The Innovation Masterclass covered all of the core concepts of end-to-end innovation. From design-thinking, to creative thinking techniques, managing risk, delivering compelling pitches, building MVP's, all the way through to innovation-specific leadership tips and scaling up successful innovations. With each step, participants heard from world leading experts, civil servant exemplars, and had a chance to apply these techniques to their own context through workbook steps.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr James Kuht
Course Lead,
Government Campus
Caleb Deeks
Programme Director,
Civil Service Modernisation and Reform
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Apply design thinking techniques to effectively curate problems
- Design a range of solutions to a problem, utilising a variety of creative thinking techniques
- Justify the choice of which idea to proceed with to solve a problem, having assessed the relative merits of each in collaboration with others
- Assess the risks and challenges associated with delivering a particular innovation, and identify how these might be addressed
- Present a compelling & persuasive pitch on an innovation
- Develop Minimum Viable Products to test the underlying assumptions of an innovation
- Explore how to dock an innovation into a complex system
- Describe a coherent and ambitious long term vision for an innovation, and a realistic route to achieve it
- Evaluate an innovation's success in both pilot's and longer term scale-up
- Synthesise some innovation leadership principles having explored a variety of perspectives within the Masterclass
Syllabus
- Innovation and its application to Public Service
- Problem curation
- Design thinking
- Ideation & creative thinking techniques
- Managing risk
- Pitching effectively
- Minimum Viable Product (MVP) creation
- Designing and delivering effective pilots
- Scaling innovations
- Leading innovation
- Societal innovation
- Continuing personal development
Issued on 20th July 2022
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