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Program Professional Framework

Creative Thinking and Innovation Techniques

Program Overview

Innovation agendas across Gulf governments and companies depend on employees who can generate and develop useful ideas, not only approve them. This program builds a practical toolkit of creative thinking techniques, including mind mapping, SCAMPER, Six Thinking Hats, TRIZ principles, forced connections and biomimicry, and then moves ideas into innovation through concept development, rapid experimentation and pitching. Participants learn to run idea sessions, overcome mental blocks, evaluate ideas against value and feasibility, and contribute to suggestion schemes and innovation labs in their organizations.

Learning Outcomes

✓Apply at least five structured creativity techniques, including SCAMPER, Six Thinking Hats and mind mapping, to a work challenge.
✓Identify personal and organisational barriers to creative thinking and select strategies to overcome them.
✓Use selected TRIZ inventive principles to resolve a technical or process contradiction.
✓Develop a raw idea into a concept with user benefit, resource needs and a test plan.
✓Evaluate ideas with an impact-feasibility matrix and prioritise those for experimentation.
✓Pitch an innovation proposal in a concise, evidence-based format.

Target Audience

Employees and team leaders contributing to innovation programs
Innovation, excellence and business improvement officers
Product and service development staff
Engineers and specialists seeking new approaches to recurring problems

Detailed Program Modules

01Creativity and Innovation Foundations

Creativity versus innovation: idea, invention and adoption
Types of innovation: product, process, service and business model
Mental blocks and the creative mindset

02Idea Generation Techniques

Mind mapping and brainwriting
SCAMPER and attribute modification
Forced connections, analogies and biomimicry

03Structured Thinking Tools

Six Thinking Hats for balanced exploration
Lateral thinking and provocation
TRIZ contradictions and inventive principles

04From Ideas to Concepts

Clustering and refining ideas
Concept descriptions and value propositions
Impact-feasibility prioritisation

05Experimentation and Validation

Rapid prototypes and minimum viable tests
Gathering user and stakeholder feedback
Learning from failed experiments

06Innovation in the Organisation

Suggestion schemes, innovation labs and challenges
Pitching ideas to decision makers
Sustaining a culture of experimentation

Training Methodology

Interactive expert-led sessions grounded in workplace examples

Case studies and practical exercises drawn from the region

Group workshops with peer review of decisions and deliverables

Formative feedback against clear performance criteria

Applied Project & Assessment

Applied Project

Each participant applies three techniques to a real challenge from their department, develops the strongest idea into a concept sheet with value, resources and risks, designs a small test, and delivers a short pitch suitable for an internal innovation program.

Assessment

Short diagnostic at the start, practical tasks linked to each learning outcome, and evaluation of the applied project against published criteria.

University Certificate & International Accreditation

Professional Certificate accredited by University of Malaya in Creative Thinking and Innovation Techniques

International accreditation: Global Leadership Organization (GLO)