CInP certification affirms an individual’s proficiency at key and foundational innovation methods and tools.
Participant Level
Foundational topics. For those with no or little experience, front-line staff up to mid-level managers with less than four years’ total work experience.
Benefits
- Become an Innovative Thinker
You will come to understand what innovation is and the role it plays in driving business forward. You will learn how to think differently about the value and experiences your organization delivers to the markets. You will learn specific methods and techniques for pursuing innovation and ensuring innovation projects make it safely from concept to market.
- Become the Driving Force for New Levels of Market Connection
By learning how to drive powerful and market-led solutions to emerging challenges, you will become recognized as a driving force for constantly reconnecting your business and its markets at increasingly higher levels. This will enable you to deliver meaningful impact to the business and transform it into a truly innovative organization.
- Learn to See the World with New Eyes
You will come to understand how innovation requires stepping back and looking at challenges through a new set of lenses. You will learn how to decompose challenges into new hypotheses that can be tested and verified. You will also learn how to reexamine and challenge existing orthodoxies in the hunt for new and better ways to solve challenges.
- Become a Catalyst for “What’s Next“
You will develop a deep appetite for finding new and better ways to deliver customer value and experiences. You will learn how to conceive market-winning next generation solutions and how to advocate for these within the organization. You will come to understand how to be deeply attuned to your markets and how to deliver new demand-creating value in those markets.
CInP® Examination Blueprint
The ClnP Exam Blueprint identifies the proportion of questions from each chapter of the Glnl Applied lnnovation Master Book that will appear on the exam. The questions are derived by combining the overall evaluations of importance, criticality, and frequency, and by converting the results into percentages.
The percentages are used to determine the number of questions related to each chapter that appear on the exam.
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Gini Applied Innovation Master Book |
Percentage of Questions |
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Foundations – Core Innovation Knowledge & Concepts |
25% |
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Tactical Innovation & The Innovation Professional |
35% |
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Innovation Management & The Innovation Manager |
35% |
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Applied Design Thinking |
5% |
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TOTAL |
100% |
CInP® Examination Content Outline
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The Innovation Professional – World Changers of the Business World |
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The Innovation Fundamentals – Getting to Know Business Innovation |
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Getting Innovation Done – Running Innovation Projects in the Business |
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Innovation’s Design Outputs – The Many Forms of “What’s New” |
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The Effective Innovator – Einstein, Edison, Jobs, and You |
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Creativity, Ideation & Brainstorming – Tapping Into Innovation’s Source of Life |
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The GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method |
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Getting Innovation Done – Running Innovation Projects in the Business •Running the Front End, Mid Zone and Back End of Innovation |
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The Big Dig – The Role of Research in Innovation •Core Concepts, Problem/Solution, Forward-Looking, “Hard” , Developing Insights |
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Design Thinking, Human-Centric Design, & The Role of Design in Innovation |
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The Innovation Manager – Grand Masters of the New |
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The Innovation Manager as Project Leader – Driving Focused Innovation |
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Leading & Building a Core Innovation Team |
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The Innovation Management Process |
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Program & Project Management Tools for Innovation Management |
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Engagement – The Art of Participatory Innovation |
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Designing Innovation Spaces |
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The Innovation Manager as Liaison – Leveraging Open Innovation |
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Storytelling – How to Spark the Imagination & Turn Ships |
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Selecting the Winning Ideas – My Innovation is Better Than Your Innovation |
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Integration – Putting It All Together |