Student Instructions

This project requires you to compile work samples as evidence of your role (As Manager) in the following:

· Planning the introduction of innovative thinking and practices in the target organisation, including:

· identifying and accessing adequate resources for innovation to occur

· establishing organisational mechanisms, systems and processes to support innovation

· initiating and fostering communication, consultation and engagement with key stakeholders, as necessary.

· Supporting the introduction of new practices by:

· using team development approaches to build skills that support innovation

· using a range of techniques and tools to generate new ideas and thinking

· devising and implementing mechanisms to promote knowledge transfer

· establishing ways to capture, communicate and share innovative ideas and practices

· promoting innovative practices, processes, products or services appropriate for organisational requirements.

· Leading innovative practices in the target organisation by:

· introducing and promoting creative thinking techniques to foster personal and team innovation

· fostering a workplace culture that encourages innovation

· developing and using processes to monitor individual and collective contributions to innovative thinking and practice.

· Sustaining innovative thinking and practice in the target organisation by:

· managing risks associated with innovation

· using change management strategies to overcome organisational barriers and capability gaps.

· Reflection on or explain the following:

· relationships between theory and thinking on innovation and creativity and the reality of your experience introducing innovative practices in the target organisation

· the effectiveness and impact of risk assessment and management strategies in the context of innovation

· processes for promoting innovative thinking and practices in an organisational context

· the effectiveness of your own leadership style and practices for modelling and supporting innovation.