Introduction to Innovation

• Like it or not the world is changing and the pace is getting faster.
• If you do not come up with a better idea someone else will.
• Successful innovators gain a leading competitive advantage.
• Good innovation generally aims to make things better.

Innovation refers to the entire process encompassing the use of creativity and research to generate new ideas, feasibility studies to evaluate their cost-effectiveness, risk analysis, design and development, new policies and procedures, market research and marketing, and implementation of the new product or service.

1. Identify the opportunity, challenge or (if you must) problem.
2. Clarify the precise objectives and expected benefits.
3. Research the background and state of the art initiatives.
4. Be creative and generate wonderful ideas!
5. Feasibility study and risk analysis.
6. Design, development, prototypes and testing.
7. Policies and strategies.
8. New procedures.
9. Market research and marketing.
10. Implementation of a new product or service.

Now ask yourself the following questions about the above:

1. Are they the only aspects of innovation?
2. How could they be improved?
3. Are they in the right order?
4. What happens if you never innovate?

For answers to these questions and much more subscribe to the Innovation services.

Acro Logic can provide you with quality support and practical assistance on all of these aspects. You even have the opportunity to have customised tools developed to assist you with your specific goals.

What will you be doing tomorrow? What does the future hold? New technologies, systems and services only succeed when they meet the requirements of that future context. If you are serious about innovation you need to be sure about what you will be up against.

Come and see the Paths to the Future:

• Future technologies, their uses and outcomes.
• Visionary strategies to optimise the benefits of technology.
• Preferred policies to account for their overall impact.

These services help you with the development and implementation of new user friendly technologies - especially information and communication technologies. This includes, for example, the development of:

• New concepts
• User requirements
• Functional and quality requirements
• Internet and ICT strategies and policies
• Information and communication systems, devices and user interfaces
• Prototype and market products (evaluation of)

Acro Logic focuses on the aspects of:

• Information content and presentation
• Knowledge acquisition
• Learning and understanding, and
• Intelligence (knowledge application).

Take advantage of the custom ideas service to receive ideas and solutions customised to meet your particular challenges and opportunities. Use these services to also identify new opportunities for you. All of the services provided by Acro Logic will be customised to suit your needs.

Do you want your fish,
or do you want to know how to fish
- or both?

If you want to learn how to develop these skills for yourself then Acro Logic can help you by providing:

• Traditional training workshops
• Online training workshops
• Traditional and online coaching and support

Acro Logic even provides support to trainers and educational bodies.

The power of creativity and creative thinking can be used to find new ideas and solutions to any challenge. Creativity will put you on the path to success. Access specialist advice, guidance, information, creativity toolkits and much more! Your introduction to creativity starts here with what is creativity and why do we need it, followed by ten key steps to creativity.