Cranfield Innovation Challenge Sprint
Issued by
Cranfield University
The Innovation Sprint is a structured process to identify organisational business problems, test ideas and prototypes over several weeks with a hands-on Hot-house experience applicable across a diverse range of problems and sectors. Participants have an opportunity to undertake strategic projects designed to add value to your organisation’s brand, integrating existing experience and capabilities, knowledge and skills acquired during the Hot-house applying them to their own organisational context
- Type Experience
- Level Advanced
- Time Weeks
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Articulate Key Management Principles in Innovation of Products, Services and Business Models
- Assessing Feasibility of New Concepts
- Create Compelling Value Propositions
- Developing Business Plans
- Driving Innovation
- Enhance innovation practice
- Enhancing Inclusive Cultures
- Experimentation & prototyping
- Identify Innovation Opportunities
- Opportunity generation and selection
- Optimising Business Critical Strategic Initiatives
- Set direction and execute vision
- Testing Critical Assumptions
Earning Criteria
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Particpants develop a business plan for their organisation during the duration of the programme and present it to their Executive Leadership team.
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Participants attend a two day intense, hands-on Hot-House that is applied across a diverse range of problems from productivity, strategy, to EDI. During these sessions they follow a structured step-by-step process to identify key organisational business problems and test ideas and prototypes through a series of innovation exercises and activities.