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Best Practice for Innovation

Target audience

Useful information

Job family

Duration

02 - STRATEGY, MARKETING, SALES

03 - BID & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
04 - R&D : SYSTEMS ENGINEERING & GENERAL STUDIES
05 - R&D : HARDWARE
06 - R&D : SOFTWARE
07 - CUSTOMER SERVICE

2.0 day(s)
14.00 hours

Language

Participants profile
Aimed at all people involved in innovation, generation of
concepts, early phases of systems/service engineering such as the
Sys-EM SD1 process, DDQS Orient Phase, concept development
for Product Lines, technico-operational studies and simulations,
stakeholder engagement, capture and bids, operational
architecture, capability engineering, and trade-off studies, in
particular:

Capture Leaders

Technical Directors

Product Line Managers

Bid Managers

Design Authorities / PDAs / DAPLs

Architects

Business Development

Marketing

Operational Analysts

Operational Experts

Technical Experts

Innovation Directors

Innovation hub staff

Designers

Training summary
An innovation is an idea that becomes a product and that finds a market. To be successful, it requires the collaboration
of different disciplines, technical and business-related.
This course covers discipline-independent techniques and an overall approach to innovation that help us produce
better solutions to our customers needs.
The course covers the critical activities that happen in between market analysis and engineering, including ways of
interacting with stakeholders, inventing (or identifying) solutions, evaluating those solutions and communicating them to
downstream activities. The different cultures, environments and qualities needed to perform these tasks well is also
treated, as is the importance of cross-discipline and cross-domain interaction.
Specific techniques include user-centred design, serious gaming, design thinking, facilitation, visualisation, science
fiction prototyping, operational analysis, PESTEL, business models, open innovation, and experimentation.

Training objectives
By the end of the course, the trainees should:
Understand the principles of innovation.
Be aware of key approaches and techniques, and know when and where they can be applied.
Have access to resources to further develop their skills in specialist areas and associated tools.

Training description
The course identifies how the different activities fit together, and how they can be leveraged in Thales business. It is a
foundation for concept studies and customer-driven innovation, upstream engineering and innovation hub projects.
It will show how different techniques have been applied in the business lifecycle, and have enhanced Thaless standing
with its customers and strengthened its business portfolio, both in traditional markets and new.
Introduction: general approach, culture, climate.
Making use of market analysis.
Stakeholders: who are they and what do they need?
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Operational analysis: understanding the context.

Visualisation: gaining insights and conveying knowledge.
Creativity, and how to unleash it.
Design thinking: what is it and when should it be applied?
Science fiction: how it can be employed?
Facilitation: how to get the best out of a group.
Evaluation: What makes a good solution?
Serious gaming: gaining insights and getting feedback.
How to use simulation and experimentation .
Handing over to downstream activities: communicating concepts to systems and product engineers.

Pre-requisites
e-Learning Modules
Non Applicable

Others

INOVBP
Created 2015-06-17