Innovation has long been recognized as crucial for the long term survival and competitiveness of firms and enterprises.  It helps enterprise to create new products/services, open new market and attract customers as well as accelerate business growth.  How can a company nurture innovation in the workplace and enable it to become repeatable and managed practices?  Through this workshop, you can find out the answers and how innovation can create value for your company.

Introduction

This one -day workshop explains how to develop an innovation strategy that is creative, insight-driven and forward-looking, and which results in new value creation. During this workshop, you will learn how to identify and strategize for global and industry drivers of change, and leverage current trends as part of your innovation strategy. In the second part of the workshop, Lego Serious Play (LSP) will be introduced as a tool on building innovation within your organization.  In the end, you will prepare a concrete and comprehensive strategy and positioning statement that incorporates your results.

Abstract

• The need for enterprise innovation• Global and industry trends of innovation• Types of innovation• Emerging technology and people based innovation tools in business strategy plan• Game-based approach to innovation• What is Lego Serious Play (LSP) and how it helps building innovation in an organization?• Interactive game will be conducted with LSP in order to elaborate the application of LSP

Outline

SpeakerMs Nicole SyKnowledge Management Specialist,Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

LSP FacilitatorMs Debbie HuiAssistant Manager,Learning and Development, SGS

Ms Nicole Sy works as a Knowledge Management Specialist. She provides knowledge management related consultancy services to clients such as CLP Power Ltd., Dragon Air, Leo Paper Ltd., Child Assessment Services of Health Department of the HKSAR Government, Housing Department of the HKSAR Government. In addition, she has been involved in various knowledge management projects and corporate knowledge management training in many prestigious companies in Hong Kong. Ms Sy is also the Program Leader for the Certified Knowledge Professional (CKP). Her knowledge management specializations are: information and knowledge audits, methods to manage and measure knowledge management performance, developing and implementing knowledge management strategies/knowledge management system, knowledge management process development and the design/implementation of knowledge management tools. Ms Sy has obtained the Bachelor (Hons) in Commerce and MSc in Information System qualifications. Prior to joining the KMIRC, she worked as Marketing Manager in various industrial sectors, covering retailing (Li & Fung Retail Group), manufacturing (Universe Holdings Ltd) and telecommunications (PCCW Ltd).

Debbie has more than10 years of experience in learning and development function in media, government, real estate brokerage, testing, inspection and certification industries with companies over 1,000 staff in Hong Kong. She taught over 1,500 staff on soft skills training in leading team, performance management, customer service and selling skills. Debbie holds a Master of Science degree in Knowledge Management from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Debbie is keen in exploring new learning approaches to develop staff through effective communication and identify potential growth areas. She is a certified trainer for Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) and conducted LSP workshops on supervisory training, strategy building and team building in China and Hong Kong in the past two years.

Please register online on KMIRC website http://kmirc.ise.polyu.edu.hk/events.php

Enquiries: Miss Autumn Lin (3400 3158)