Activities: D-F
Activities
Here you can find a variety of activities on the subject of innovation. They range from individual projects and reflection frameworks to group level activities suitable for workshops or classroom settings.
Destroying creativity
An activity to help reflect on the key components of an innovation culture
Developing a Business Case
An activity applying various questions and framework to a hypothetical business case, in order to develop and pitch it.
Discontinuous Innovation
This simple activity focuses attention on some of the important areas of discontinuous innovation management.
Discontinuous Innovation Audit
This simple self-assessment tool focuses attention on some of the important areas of discontinuous innovation management.
The Disruptor - a simulation
Ammon Salter at Warwick Business School has been developing some fascinating online games and simulations and his latest is called ‘The Disruptor’, opening up the challenging world of corporate entrepreneurship in a novel and exciting way.
Dragon’s den
An activity designed around the ‘Dragon’s Den’ format.
Eastville Community Shop Activity
An activity designed around the ‘Eastville Community Shop’ social innovation case study.
Teaching notes for Thomas Edison - Illuminating innovation
Teaching notes to enable delivery of workshops/lectures around the theme of the 'Illuminating innovation' case.
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Eggs-ercises
Simple group-based activities designed to explore shared creativity and innovation implementation
Entrepreneur skills self-assessment
This is a simple tool designed to help you reflect on your skills as an entrepreneur and identify where you have strengths to build on or areas where you might wish to improve.
Exploring Innovation Strategies
An activity for looking further at the innovation strategies of existing businesses.
Exploring Digital Opportunities
An activity for looking further at the possibilities for digital innovation
Find a queue!
Queues are a pretty good indicator of a process which might benefit from improvement.
Finding opportunities
This activity is deisgned to help you think through how you might find opportunities for innovation and begin to generate possible solutions
Five Whys
A tool for stripping away an apparent problem to get through to the root problem.
Flying your flag
An activity to help you reflect on your role as an entrepreneur.
Forces for innovation
An activity for mapping the ‘driving forces’ for strategic technological innovation.
Frugal innovation
This is an approach to innovation which is based on the principle of simplification.
Futures for innovation
An activity to explore future scenarios and their implications for innovation