Course: Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise

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. …

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 …

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 …

As you have already been discussing this week, the problems we face, individually or collectively, can be so complex that knowing how to even start to address them can be …

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 …

What do people do to unleash their creativity? If some people seem more able to tap into their creative thoughts than others, how are they doing so? There is a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …