CREATING AND MANAGING INNOVATION IN ORGANIZATIONS

How do you create ongoing and systematic innovation that is an integral part of the cultural DNA of your organization?

Description
Learn Best Practices used by leading organizations for fostering grass-roots innovation and ensure that your organization stays relevant and in-tune with its audience and members. Learn how to plan and implement an infrastructure and programs for innovation that produce and promote value creating ideas.
Learn how to infuse your organization with innovation through internal and external collaboration and crowd-sourcing, and how to be much more in-tune with the real needs of customers, employees and other stakeholders. We will examine the ideation funnel, and programs including crowd-sourcing ideation campaigns, idea market days and hackathons.

Benefits
Participants gain an introductory understanding of how they can implement innovation programs and processes to benefit their organizations, and to better understand and meet the needs of their customers, employees and other stakeholders in a fresh and relevant way.

Duration 60-90 minutes

THINKING INSIDE THE BOX

Is “Creativity” a talent that only a few possess? Do innovative ideas require a creative “spark”? Or is it something that we can all learn and practice?

Description
An introduction to creativity and innovation based on leading methodologies and tools. Methodologies introduced include: SIT (Systematic Inventive Thinking), SCAMPER (Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Minimize/Maximize, Put to Other Uses, Eliminate, and Rearrange/Reverse), and Design Thinking. The presentation is interactive and engaging; the audience experience the tools through short exercises presented during the lecture.

Benefits
Participants gain an introductory understanding and taste of leading creativity techniques and methodologies. They learn that creativity does not require genius, that it is a skill we are all born with and can relearn and master. By applying templates and methodologies “inside the box” they arrive at practical ideas and solutions that are both inventive and creative.

Duration 60 minutes

THE START-UP NATION AND BEYOND

(Target audience: Groups and delegations visiting Israel from abroad)

Why can Israel proudly claim more high-tech start-ups and a larger venture capital industry per-capita than any other country in the world? 

Description
Inspired by the best-seller “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle”, this interactive presentation provides an updated view of the Start-Up Nation, including the underlying trends threatening its long-term feasibility.

Benefits
Provides participants with an engaging insight into the Start-Up Nation, and looks beyond the current state, into the forces at play that will shape and effect its future.

Duration 60 minutes