Accelerating Innovation With the T.E.D.O.C. Process with Praveen Gupta
The TEDOC (Target, Explore, Develop, Optimize, and Commercialize) process learning program is the leading course about the science of innovation. It is designed to provide necessary tools and techniques to participants in order to innovate new solutions and solve problems innovatively. Organizations need innovation to develop customer-specific solutions on-demand and in real time. Participants will get an overview of the Breakthrough Innovation (Brinnovation) framework, and practice the TEDOC methodology for developing an innovative solution.
Class Dates: July 16, July 18, July 23, July 25, August 6, August 8, August 13, August 15
Expected Outcomes:
After completing the class, participants will meet the following objectives:
1. Understand the need for innovation in the knowledge age
2. Learn a creativity process and be able to generate many ideas quickly when necessary
3. Gain an overview of the Breakthrough Innovation (Brinnovation) framework
4. Practice TEDOC on a real project
Course Outline:
Need and strategy for innovation
Barriers to innovation
Framework of innovation
The innovation project identification
Practice T.E.D.O.C. - Target phase
Practice T.E.D.O.C. - Explore phase
Practice T.E.D.O.C. - Develop phase
Practice T.E.D.O.C. - Optimize phase
Practice T.E.D.O.C. - Commercialize phase
Conclusion and celebration
The Puget Sound Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development and Invista Performance Solutions are co-sponsoring this event to promote innovation in our region.
Who Should Attend: Any experienced professional who would like to be innovative, or who wants to help organizations and other people to be innovative.
Course Leader: Praveen Gupta is a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he established and leads the curriculum for the Business Innovation program and won the university’s Professional Achievement Award. Praveen earned fame as the co-creator of the Six-Sigma process at Motorola. winning three Motorola CEO Awards and the Motorola Engineering Award. An electrical engineer by training, he started his career as a scientist at the prestigious Bell Labs.
Praveen has established his credentials as a thought leader in innovation by being the Founding Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Innovation Science, authoring the leading text Business Innovation and related books (in addition to several books on Six Sigma), writing a monthly column on Manufacturing Excellence for Quality Magazine, consulting with leading companies, and being a sought-after conference speaker.
Cost: The TEDOC learning program is a proven, popular course and in its traditional classroom format is priced at $1995. Since this is pilot effort to test the virtual learning format it is priced at a substantial discount of only $595. Subsequent virtual deliveries will be priced at $895. You save a lot by being part of this exciting venture.
Refunds/Cancellations: Refunds will not be available after the program begins, July 16th. Substitutions are permitted.
