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Design and Run Innovation Challenges like a Pro

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Join us for an eight-week, cohort-based learning journey tailored for innovation leaders, senior management leaders, executive leaders, and management consultants. This program is designed to transform you into a master of crafting and executing innovation challenges that not only activate but sustain innovation at your workplace.

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What will you walk away with?

A Ready-to-Launch Innovation Challenge

Membership to a vibrant community of Innovation Catalysts like yourself

A Comprehensive Framework for Innovation Challenges

Step out of the course with a fully designed innovation challenge tailored to address a real-world need within your organization. You'll not only learn the theory but will apply what you've learned in a practical setting, ensuring you can make an immediate impact.

A Comprehensive Framework for Innovation Challenges

Membership to a vibrant community of Innovation Catalysts like yourself

A Comprehensive Framework for Innovation Challenges

Gain a foundational framework that can be adapted to design and implement innovation challenges of any scale. This toolkit will empower you to systematically drive change and foster innovation across various contexts and challenges.

Membership to a vibrant community of Innovation Catalysts like yourself

Membership to a vibrant community of Innovation Catalysts like yourself

Membership to a vibrant community of Innovation Catalysts like yourself

Join the community of driven and like-minded innovation catalysts. This growing community will become a valuable resource for collaboration, exchange of ideas, and mutual support as you continue to advance in your practice of innovation challenges.

Apply to join

Who is this Learning Experience for?

Innovation leaders

Middle Management to Senior leaders

Middle Management to Senior leaders

Innovation leaders are the catalysts for change in any organization. This course provides you with practical tools and frameworks to build a thriving innovation culture. Learn to engage both internal and external talent, diversify your innovation portfolio, and design challenges that drive impactful products, processes, or services. Whether you’re tackling internal inefficiencies or engaging external collaborators, you’ll walk away equipped to make innovation a cornerstone of your strategy.

Middle Management to Senior leaders

Middle Management to Senior leaders

Middle Management to Senior leaders

Are you a middle management or senior leader striving to balance operational goals with driving innovative solutions? This course equips you with actionable strategies to transform your team’s ideas into measurable outcomes. Learn to foster a culture of innovation, streamline the growth of ideas into impactful projects, and demonstrate your leadership by delivering results that go beyond traditional KPIs.

Executive Leaders

Management Consultants

Management Consultants

As an executive leader, are you ready to unleash your organization’s innovative potential but unsure where to begin? This course gives you the confidence and frameworks to empower your team to create breakthrough solutions. Learn how to build a supportive environment that nurtures innovation, from idea generation to full-scale implementation, and drive your organization’s growth with a clear, structured innovation strategy.

Management Consultants

Management Consultants

Management Consultants

Are you a management consultant seeking to deliver exceptional value to your clients? This course provides a comprehensive toolkit to identify opportunities for innovation, implement tailored challenges, and deliver results that exceed expectations. Gain the skills to help your clients harness untapped potential, drive innovation from within, and position yourself as a trusted partner in their transformation journey.

Curriculum:

The course is delivered through interactive online classes, enabling flexible participation from anywhere. The program is composed of 8 individual modules that provide a comprehensive end-to-end coverage of innovation challenge design and execution. Participants should expect to dedicate approximately 3.5 hours per week to coursework and interactive sessions.  

Module 1: What is an Innovation Challenge:

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Module 1: What is an Innovation Challenge:

Explore the fundamentals and significance of innovation challenges in driving organizational change.

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Module 2: Innovation Challenge Management

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Module 2: Innovation Challenge Management

Learn effective management strategies to oversee innovation challenges from conception to completion.

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Module 3: Discover the Opportunity for an Innovation Challenge

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Module 3: Discover the Opportunity for an Innovation Challenge

Identify and analyze opportunities within your organization that can be transformed into innovation challenges.

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Module 4: Design Innovation Challenge

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Module 4: Design Innovation Challenge

Develop the skills to craft detailed, actionable innovation challenges tailored to specific organizational needs.

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Module 5: Implement Innovation Challenge

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Module 5: Implement Innovation Challenge

Gain practical insights into rolling out innovation challenges, ensuring participant engagement and smooth execution.

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Where else can I learn about innovation challenge design?

"Design and Run Innovation Challenges like a Pro" is the first experience of its kind, offering a pioneering learning journey tailored specifically for those ready to lead and innovate. This course provides a comprehensive exploration into the practical design and management of innovation challenges, standing alone in its field.


Designed with a focus on practitioners, this course transcends traditional content found in textbooks and lectures. It creates a dynamic, interactive learning environment where you can apply what you learn through real-world scenarios and hands-on exercises. You'll explore effective strategies for creating incentive mechanisms and learn how to apply these techniques across various industries.


What sets this course apart is its commitment to actionable insights and immediate application. The curriculum condenses years of expert experience into a practical, intensive training program, enriched with live interactions and active project work. This approach ensures that you can launch and grow a repeatable process for fostering innovation within your organization as soon as you complete the course.

This course is not just an educational journey—it's a transformative experience that equips you to lead successful innovation challenges.


With "Design and Run Innovation Challenges like a Pro," you'll gain the skills necessary to significantly impact your professional capabilities and your organization's progress.

Enroll now to step into a role of leadership and innovation, and join a network of professionals who are spearheading change in their industries. This isn't just a course—it's your gateway to becoming a key player in innovation, offering insights and methods not available anywhere else.

Duration

Guest Lecture

Guest Lecture

Eight weeks, with one live cohort class per week. 

Guest Lecture

Guest Lecture

Guest Lecture

Learn from first hand experience of established leaders in innovation challenge.

Homework

1:1 Consulting

1:1 Consulting

Benefit from learning by doing method, and develop your first innovation challenge, to launch at your or client's workplace. 

1:1 Consulting

1:1 Consulting

1:1 Consulting

Refine the innovation challenge design with weekly from 1:1 consulting with the instructor. 

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Meet Iliriana Kaçaniku, your instructor!

Hello innovator,

This learning experience is a result of a career of over two decades helping organizations across walks of life become more innovative so they serve their customers better.  In hundreds of projects and millions of dollars invested, I saw again and again that innovation leads directly to measurable ROI—whether it’s:


  • Expanding reach to wider audiences,
  • Launching more impactful offerings,
  • Establishing credibility and thought leadership, or
  • Strengthening brand visibility.


Yet, the unshakable truth prevails across each of the experiences. 


It’s not organizations that innovate—it's their people.


Over the past months, I’ve distilled these experiences into a unique learning journey. It’s designed to empower anyone, anywhere—regardless of their title, department, or sector—to initiate innovation projects and mobilize innovators around them. In other words, to walk beyond boundaries.


If you’re curious about how to ignite continuous innovation in your surroundings, you’ve come to the right place. Our first-of-its-kind learning experience equips you to:


  • Design incentives that bring out the best in your team,
  • Launch challenges leading to new products, services, or incremental upgrades, and
  • Ensure sustainable growth, no matter how the market shifts.


I’m not offering quick fixes or lofty theories—I’m sharing proven strategies honed over 20 years of designing and scaling programs for ongoing innovation with real-world impact. 


I’d love to guide you through frameworks you can adapt to fit your organization, your people, and your unique mission.

Apply to join

What you’ll get out of this learning experience?

A Ready-to-Launch Innovation Challenge

Membership to a vibrant community of Innovation Challenge Designers like yourself

A Comprehensive Framework for Innovation Challenges

Step out of the learning experience with a fully designed innovation challenge tailored to address a real need within your organization. You'll not only learn the theory but will apply what you've learned in a practical setting, ensuring you can make an immediate impact.

A Comprehensive Framework for Innovation Challenges

Membership to a vibrant community of Innovation Challenge Designers like yourself

A Comprehensive Framework for Innovation Challenges

Gain a foundational framework that can be adapted to design and implement innovation challenges of any scale. This toolkit will empower you to systematically drive change and foster innovation across various contexts and challenges.

Membership to a vibrant community of Innovation Challenge Designers like yourself

Membership to a vibrant community of Innovation Challenge Designers like yourself

Membership to a vibrant community of Innovation Challenge Designers like yourself

Join the community of driven and like-minded innovation catalysts. This growing community will become a valuable resource for collaboration, exchange of ideas, and mutual support as you continue to advance in your practice of innovation challenges.

Price:

Pay in full

$2,499.00

With a total value of over $5,000 in live training, 1:1 consulting, and resources, this course is available for a promotional price of $2,499 one-time payment.  

Pay in installments

$2,999.00

For those who prefer payment in installments, the course is available for $3,000 (two installments of $1,500.00).  The first installment is due February 14, 2025. The second installment is due upon completion of Module 4 lecture and discussion).  Early birds benefit from 20% discount. 

Discount available

Bring a friend for joint 10% discount on any payment plan. Bring another friend for an additional  10% discount.


Group discount available, please contact us at innovation.challenge@opensolvestudio.com directly. 


Come check us out. If the course does not resonate with you, and you change your mind after class 1, we will refund 90% of the paid fee.  

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