AC 1.1 Explain the importance of innovation for own organisation.
I have been successfully running my own business as a self-employed trainer for health and social care for the past 3 years. All of this was made possible by using all the experience gained in this field for the past 15 years and applying all the skills and certification outcomes to find out what my client’s needs are and what it’s expected by my learners. Also complying with regulations, keep updated with resources and new guidelines.
Innovation within my organisation is about creating and successfully applying new ideas in this particular field. This could be in the form of such as creating and bringing a new product or service to market, or a series of smaller
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While other providers can deliver these courses unaccredited, I have found that for peace of mind as well as having an awarding body and all the relevant policies that as a centre I would have to comply with to give the best possible training experience will prove now and for future references a great deal of quality assurance to my customers that the information delivered to their staff and the legal compliance will be met without any problems.
By becoming an accredited centre recently, has given me a sense of security for the business ad many times my finding approached by research have proved to give me the results I was looking for in terms of finding out what my customers would look for in a course like this.
Also by becoming an accredited centre, I have been able to better advertise my expertise as a trainer and being able to offer courses that keep up with the present and future trends. I have been able to break down charges and show to my clients what they are actually paying for when it comes to order that particular course and understand their budget better. This has strengthen our relationships.
I have had to put policies in place (health and safety, equal opportunities, confidentiality etc...) this is all relevant to comply to teaching standard and students needs to be told before the start of every course. Also students get told about the
I would define innovation as the ability to apply this creative thinking to an existing product, solution or approach that improves the outcome of a solution to a problem or usefulness of a product. Innovation is the ability to put creative thoughts to use in a way that is beneficial to a person, product, object, problem or situation. .
“Assess own leadership behaviours and potential in the context of a particular leadership model and own organisation’s working practices and culture using feedback from others”
As already discussed in Section 1, business productivity and change cannot occur without effecting people’s psychology to effect change. I initially felt that supervision would be fundamental to addressing and identify issues to allow reflection to plan a way forward to address issues, such as, performance management, productivity, effectiveness and understanding the views of the individuals to effect and improve individuals and team goals, and linking this to the business plan. This approach I
Innovations form the main sources of competitive advantages and are always of significance for the growth of a company. Companies or organizations put their greater efforts in improving their performance by finding new ideas and knowledge on the best way of beating their competitors and therefore give satisfaction to their customers. There are various factors involved in the innovation design system which can be either internal or external.
In an established educational setting new staff will be regularly informed of current policies and procedures, this is to ensure best practice for child and practitioner. Policies may include:
* Establish a positive image with the local university to create additional long term clientele.
Some of the best solutions are outside the organisation. Having external Involving my bring about solutions in innovation process
Graduation training programmes let graduates have a look at several factors of what the position consists of as well as getting information for an insight on how the form is like. The time period to complete the scheme takes up to a year but could drag on. An advantage of this is that they would have the chance to enhance, as training would be effective and would be provided to them. A disadvantage is that business might train in one way but other businesses may use different ways in which it would be different to what the business does.
The weaknesses are the obstacles that may prevent the success of this innovation. Some of the identified obstacles are as follows: the individual may not available at the respite centre and school, the family plans and school holidays; some staff may not use the strap with the adapted spoon because of time constraints in testing the practicability of the spoon because meal time is always a protected busy time, lastly, the attitude and interest of the staff implementing the innovation; this is important. This is because the staff may have a negative attitude towards the innovation. A negative attitude and lack of interest by support staff and other parties involved in the innovation may affect the success of this innovation. The individual may not want to use the strap with the adapted spoon because it is a form of change. The strap on the adapted spoon may become loose due to repeated use. They may not want to use the spoon and the strap. They may also forget to use the strap with the spoon during mealtime because of resistance to change, as described by Lewin (1951, cited in Mind Tools, 2016).
Innovation is not a single activity; it is a process. For businesses, innovation means fresh ideas, developing new products or services and its effective processes. Innovation can be key to any business or company in the future. Bringing innovation into your business can help you save time and money and gives you the competitive advantage needed to grow your business.
There is a variety of options to choose from, for instance, a common option many companies choose from is to make use of already established MOOC provider’s courses. The simplest option is to encourage employees to improve complete parts of their training using relevant courses from the existing MOOC providers (Dodson, Kitburi, & Berge, 2015, pp.17). For instance, Coursera collaborated with MasterCard and provided a course based on web applications for 2,500 MasterCard employees (Sanchez-Gordon & Lujan-Mora, 2015, pp.123). In addition, another variation of “pick and choose” is by utilizing only parts of a MOOC and tweak it to their needs. Rather than integrating a complete MOOC solution or using outside help, Aman Resorts can take the most useful features of the MOOC for their training solution. This way, Aman Resorts does not have to build one from the ground up, and may be able to integrate previous training solutions (Dodson, Kitburi, & Berge, 2015, pp.17). Also, by utilizing only parts of the MOOC, Aman Resorts also gets greater control over the content used in the training and potential savings in
Our assignment is to create and promote an innovative product. In developing a new product, we started with an idea generation. This is a systematic search for new-product ideas. Companies go through many ideas before they come to find some good ones. We had to do the same thing. We thought of many ideas on our own. It was more of an internal idea source as opposed to going outside of our partnership for ideas. Our first idea was a restaurant with half of it an actual restaurant and the other half an automobile tuner shop. The next idea was a new energy drink that would be less costly and better tasting. Our next idea came up when we were sitting
A. Given the nature and demands of technology cycles and innovation streams, identify the two
Innovation refers to finding new ways to improve the existing products, services, processes, technologies, and employee performance in an organizational setup. In today's competitive business environment, organizations have to focus on bringing innovation in each and every aspect of their business operations; like products or service offerings, enterprise resource planning systems, marketing and promotional efforts, and organizational structure. The market challenges and competitive pressures also force organizations to use a blend of all these innovation processes in their business activities. Therefore, it is vital to give an equal focus on product innovation, process innovation, marketing innovation, and organizational innovation within the limited organizational resources and capabilities.
Innovation is the process by which ideas are created, selected and implemented to bring about profitable change to organisations. Innovations come as a result of an identified need for organisations to change their current processes, activities or operations. Andriopoulos and Dawson (2009) explain that organisational change is ‘new ways of organizing and working’. They explain that change occur in two dimensions – movement of state and scope of change.