AI for Innovation & Problem Solving
Overview
AI can be a powerful creative partner, generating ideas, challenging assumptions and helping teams explore solutions they would not have considered. This interactive course combines structured innovation methods such as design thinking with AI tools, so teams can solve problems faster and test ideas more cheaply.
Who should attend
Managers, innovation and improvement teams, product and service designers, and anyone leading problem-solving work.
Training methodology
Interactive presentations, live demonstrations of AI tools, hands-on exercises using participants' own work examples, case studies, group discussion, and a personal action plan.
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Frame problems clearly with AI support
- Generate and expand ideas using AI
- Evaluate and select ideas with structured criteria
- Prototype and test ideas rapidly
- Lead AI-supported innovation sessions
Course outline
Day 1Creativity and AI
- How AI supports creative thinking
- Human creativity versus AI output
- Innovation process overview
- Warm-up challenge
- Barriers to innovation
- Team roles
Day 2Understanding the Problem
- Problem framing techniques
- User research with AI
- Personas and journey maps
- Exercise
- How might we questions
- Data insight
Day 3Generating Ideas
- AI-assisted brainstorming
- Analogies and lateral thinking
- Combining ideas
- Idea sprint
- Reverse thinking
- Idea clustering
Day 4Selecting and Prototyping
- Evaluation criteria
- Rapid prototypes with AI
- Testing with users
- Build session
- Business model checks
- Pitch preparation
Day 5Leading Innovation
- Facilitating AI-supported sessions
- Building an innovation pipeline
- Measuring innovation
- Team pitch
- Intellectual property basics
- Action plan
