Welcome to our Training of Trainers Curriculum page. You can find all materials and videos pertaining to the Training of Trainers conducted by IPP in 2015. This course goes through the full IPP Innovation and Entrepreneurship Curriculum material. The material was also applied to the 4 day IPP Innovation Accelerator Bootcamp training course.
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Learner’s Guide:
On this page, you can find all 10 videos covering the two month long intensive ToT course. You can see a spinet of each week’s training in action with International Trainers delivering their sessions and course participants reflecting on what they have learned. All detailed information and trainers’ slides can be found within our ToT Curriculum document. The curriculum is comprised of 11 units and over 50 sessions. Each video corresponds to a specific unit listed in the description. You can find the exercise and appropriate slides including learner’s guides for each session in the corresponding unit’s hyperlink within the document. Please check the table of content to find the appropriate materials.
Access the full curriculum: IPP ToT Curriculum.
Innovation Bootcamp Curriculum: IPP Innovation Accelerator Bootcamp training course.
Find the Vietnamese translation for Lean Startup Terminology here.
Week 1: Introduction to Innovation Management; Ideation & Generative Market Research
ToT Curriculum Unit 2. & 3.
Introduction to Innovation Management
In the first week of the ToT, we take a holistic look at Innovation Management followed by Ideation & Generative Market Research.
Innovation Management ultimately covers both sustaining and disruptive innovation, but the focus of the curriculum is on disruptive innovation. Using themes such as Design Thinking (also sometimes called Human Centered Design) and Lean Startup, learners will go through an in depth exploration of the tools and techniques used by companies like Dropbox, Twitter, Wealthfront, and others to achieve exponential growth and market disruption.
Ideation & Generative Market Research
The next topic, Ideation & Generative Market Research. Creating a huge volume of ideas is the first step in creating disruption. This section will cover idea generation techniques and out-of-the-building research techniques to find an early adopter market segment for those ideas with potential.
Week 2: Evaluative Market Experiments
ToT Curriculum Unit 4.
Evaluative Market Experiments
Once an early adopter market segment has been identified, it must be validated.Many startups such as the Segway and Color have created “great” products only to find that their vision of mass market adoption has been a hallucination. This section will cover techniques to reduce market risk by validating market demand before building a product.
Week 3: Generative Product Research & Evaluative Product Experiments
ToT Curriculum Unit 5. & 6.
Generative Product Research
Once the market has been validated, product development should begin. This unit covers a number of tools for creating compelling product concepts and before trying to implement the product at a large scale and high cost. By using these techniques, only the most critical product or service features will be implemented first so as to eliminate the waste of building something no one wants.
Evaluative Product Experiments
Test driven experimentation is not finished when product development begins. Actively measuring and testing product hypotheses and rigorously analyzing data is what differentiates successful companies from mediocrity. Rapid prototyping enables companies to truly use data driven product development.
Week 4: Evaluative Product Experiments (Cont.); B2B & Complex Sales
Curriculum Unit 6. & 7.
B2B & Complex Sales
Complex sales, where multiple stakeholders must agree to purchase or use a product, and vastly different for simple sales such as for a consumer application. Long sales cycles and complex bidding practices such as RFPs used by government agencies make applying rapid prototyping and lean startup a challenge. This unit will examine ways to break long sales cycles into smaller discrete elements which can be experimented with and optimized.
Week 5: B2B & Complex Sales (Cont.); Mid-term Review
ToT Curriculum Unit 7.
B2B & Complex Sales
Complex sales, where multiple stakeholders must agree to purchase or use a product, and vastly different for simple sales such as for a consumer application. Long sales cycles and complex bidding practices such as RFPs used by government agencies make applying rapid prototyping and lean startup a challenge. This unit will examine ways to break long sales cycles into smaller discrete elements which can be experimented with and optimized.
Week 6: Scaling Growth & Companies
Curriculum Unit 8.
Scaling Growth & Companies
Once a company has found Product / Market Fit, it’s time to start scaling. Companies must acquire more customers and also grow their infrastructure and capabilities while maintaining the core skills of experimentation and rapid learning that enabled them to succeed thus far.
Week 7: Lean Startup in the Enterprise
Curriculum Unit 9.
Lean Startup in the Enterprise
Large companies typically have very different structures than startups. They are often static structures, very resistant to change, and don’t adapt well to external forces. This Unit will explore how enterprises can adapt to rapid market change by embracing lean startup & design thinking.
Week 8: Innovation Ecosystems
ToT Curriculum Unit 10.
Innovation Ecosystems
Drawing from all the lessons learned so far, Learners will see how to apply design thinking and lean startup to the ecosystem level. In particular, parallels will be drawn between large corporations and startup ecosystems. Finally, Learners will use this high level understanding to modify the accelerator curriculum and implement the first round of continuous improvement.
Week 9: Funding & Legal
Curriculum Unit 11.
In this final week, we have a special lecturer, Dr. Pasi Malinen, from University of Turku. All of the materials can be found within this Google Drive Folder instead.
Funding & Legal
Every company must deal with the legal and financial requirements that enable them to function. This means not only forming a legal entity, but ensuring the structure and capital table will be compliant with international standards that allow them to raising funding from international sources. This unit will also apply lean startup and design thinking principles to the fundraising process itself.
Week 10: ToT Conclusion & Recap
Recap
In this final video, both trainers and trainees will talk about their whole experience for the past two months partaking this course. An intensive learning experience for both trainers and trainees alike. Find out more in the video.