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 Delivery Methods

• In-Person

• Online

Driving Breakthrough Innovation Course Benefits

• Part of the Transformational Technical Leadership Program

• This Curriculum is designed in partnership with Duke University professors

• A course certificate from Learning Tree and Duke Corporate Education is issued with each course completion

• A program certificate from Learning Tree and Duke Corporate Education is issued upon successful completion of 5 courses out of the 6 outlined courses

• Required course for certificate program: course 3830 “Navigating Increasing Complexity”-2-day course

• 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 Course Outline