What is an Innovation Workshop?

Innovation workshops help individuals and organisations to plan their future business offerings in context of changing market demands. There are three types:

Introduction Workshop

In this workshop, participants are made aware of innovation, its role in business, and how to apply it in business.

Open Innovation Workshop

In this workshop, participants explore the future they are sharing with others in their business or market.

Enterprise Tailored Workshops

These workshops are highly focused to turn ideas into real products. The workshop is designed around the client’s environment and needs.

Learning about Innovation – Introductory Workshop

This is a workshop that introduces early stage innovators to the realms of innovation. It takes them through practical case studies and exercises to become full-fledged innovators and see the results of their innovations faster.

Learning about innovation is a one-day event, offered at The Innovation Hub or a location agreed with the client.

Open Innovation Workshop

These are one-day events initiated and organised by InnovationLab to explore future environments for business and technologies impacting on the demonstrators it is developing.
The format of such a workshop is radically different from the traditional:

• Scenarios and environments are created where participants are immersed into future situations and where there contributions assist to shape a common understanding of possible outcomes for the industry, market, and business in the future.
• The discussions are held at an open level and it is not expected of participants to go beyond the generic knowledge that will help all to understand the future better.
• As such no intellectual property protection exists at these workshops and what is said is for public consumption. The responsibility of what is revealed lies with the participant.

The innovative ways of engaging with the future broadens the understanding for all, and assists InnovationLab™ in aligning the demonstrators in such a way that it will benefit the users, which are often workshop participants.

Innovation Think Tank – Enterprise Tailored Workshop

After consulting with management in the organisation, InnovationLab customises an innovation workshop for the specific organisation: InnovationLab picks trends from relevant technology areas and market sectors to provide background to ideas generation and innovation.

The workshop brings together the core planning group concerned with strategy and future positioning, and the innovative thinkers of the company.

It stimulates possibility thinking and then harnesses those creative ideas into practical products and executable services. In such an innovation workshop technology and business thinking are aligned, focused on the future business solutions that the organisation could offer.

Participants will leave with a clear understanding of technology futures, business solutions that emerge from their own innovations, new innovations required and an agenda for action. The outcome of an enterprise specific innovation Workshop is an important input into strategy.

Innovation Workshops take the form of a two-day event in the conferencing facilities of The Innovation Hub in Pretoria. Intellectual property is respected and safeguarded by signing non-disclosure agreements with the participating organisation.