Course: Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise

This week you have been working hard to identify, structure and categorise problems. In the previous activities you started to explore what can happen when you add solutions to complex …

Summaries can take a variety of forms; trailers, news headlines, executive summaries, tweets, and advertising slogans. In this article, we look at a few simple structures for articulating your ideas. …

When evaluating ideas, one potential methodology is to identify a number of criteria to select against. By assessing idea performance against the desired criteria, you can make a selection based …

We’ve been thinking about luck quite broadly this week, but let’s turn that back to thinking about creating lucky innovations. Before we think about how do that that practically, it’s …

Some innovation is absolutely the outcome of dedicated and determined work to find answers to a problem, but some innovation is just as clearly ‘a bit lucky’. This category includes …

In some situations, often after first exploring a problem with an informal technique, it might be necessary to implement a more formal one. These are formal in the sense that …

Well done on reaching the end of the course! Are you feeling inspired to continue being innovative and enterprising, to learn more about the practice of Innovation, and to work …

We hope you are enjoying the course and have started thinking about what your skills and passions are, and how you can use those to drive you and your ideas …

As we just heard, failure is often a useful part of the innovative process: even a strategy you can use to your advantage! Throughout this course, we’ve heard from our …

Throughout this course you may have spotted a recurring feature – the central role of accidents, mistakes, and failure. Right back in Week 1, amongst our review of historic innovators …

In this video, we hear from different people in different job roles talking about how they tested their ideas. While you’re watching, listen out for the answers to the questions …

Being influential can be difficult, especially if you aren’t used to being persuasive. In this video, Dave and Hélène explore the idea of being persuasive and influential. After watching, consider …

Another factor to consider when pitching is audience: not everyone will respond to ideas the same way. In this video, Dave talks about altering your pitch to suit different audiences. …

A good pitch is hard to ignore, but how do you go about writing and delivering one? Here, Dave talks you through his tips for pitching success, thinking about the …

Being able to summarise your ideas in a short, snappy way will help you grab people’s attention. If you can’t explain your idea concisely, you’ll find it hard to convince …