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Innovation Accelerator Workshop Series

overview

Learn to develop, test, and grow new business ideas, products, or services before bringing them to market.


The Pioneers 21 Innovation Workshop Series is an eight module program designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn to develop, test and grow new business ideas, products, or services before bringing them to market using a collaborative structured approach.


This series teaches you to use innovation methodologies, disciplines and tools such as design thinking, lean start up, and business model design across all industries and phrases of the innovation process.

Who should participate

  • Entrepreneurs with a new idea, product 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 and your team through the innovation process and develop new ideas + take home templates to use in your future innovation projects.

  • In the classroom
    • Eight group in-person workshops
  • Self learning
    • Tasks before and after each workshop
  • One-on-one support

Workshop Outline

Workshop 1: Team Alignment & Scoping

You’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 innovation.
  • Gather and align the right team to tackle the challenge and start the problem exploration phase.


Workshops 2 & 3: Problem Exploration & Customer Development

During 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: Ideation

During 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 Development

During 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 Design

During 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: Validation

In 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 Design

Together, 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

2023 workshop schedule coming soon!

2021 Workshop Video Testimonials

Peter delgado

Founder, PEQUOD

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