Innovation Accelerator Workshop Series

500 West Overland Avenue,El Paso TX 79901

31 August, 2022

Description

The Pioneers 21 Innovation Accelerator Series is an eight module program designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn to how develop, test, and grow new business ideas, products, or services befor bringing them to market using a collaborative structured approached. Who should participate:- Entrepreneurs with a new idea, products or service - Business owners and executive management - Creatives and students interested in innovation What to expect:Throughout the program, you will learn to use innovation tools to guide you are your team through the innovation process and develop new ideas + take home templates to use in your future innovation projects. - In the classrom: eight group in-person workshops - Self learning: tasks before and after each workshop - One-on-one support Workshop 1: Team Alignment & ScopingYou'll develop a model of how things are now and determine aspects that all stakeholders agree can be improved. Outcome / Output:- Define innovation and learn how to create a culture of innnovation. - Gather and align the right team to tackle the challenge and start the problem exploration phase Workshop 2 & 3: Problem Exploration & Customer DevelopmentDuring the problem exploration phase, you will start exploring the challenge outlined in the scoping phase and validating your riskiest assumptions. Outcome/Output:- Learn about your target customer and their pains - Define early customer persona and user journey map - Check market opportunity - Develop an innovation thesis - Begin designing and running problem validation experiment Workshop 4: IdeationDuring this session, you and your team will learn to use innovation management and design thinking practices to generate and prioritize ideas to solve your customers' problem based on data gathered during the problem exploration phase. Outcome/Output:- Develop and measure opportunity of multiple solution concepts Workshops 5: Solution DevelopmentDuring this workshop you'll learn to use innovation tools and practices to prioritize your most important features or concepts to make decisions on how to take them forward. Then expand your concept to begin crafting your customer value proposition which will be the basis for designing a business model. Outcome/Output:- Low-fidelity prototypes - Validated learnings Workshop 6: Business Model DesignDuring this phase, you'll learn to use the business model canvas to develop your new or existing business model based on your customer value proposition. Outcome/Output:- Identify potential business models - Design and run business model validation experiments Workshop 7: ValidationIn this workshop, you'll challenge and prioritize your assumptions, evaluate how ready you are to get out of the office and clarify experiments you'll run to validate your assumptions about customer and product market fit. Output/Outcome:- Validated learnings related to market fit and business model - Defined validation experiments & strategy Workshop 8: Pitch DesignTogether, you'll learn how to and craft a storyline of your pitch built around all essential building blocks; problem, solution, business model, credibility, and call to action. You'll be given the resources and feedback to make sure your pitch hits up. Output/Outcome:- Develop a clear and concise story - Design a visual presentation - Ready to pitch in front of senior stakeholders and decision makers If you have any questions or would like more information about this program, please contact Laura P. Butler at [email protected]