Do you run a creative business? Does your business see creativity as a vital business process? Then this workshop is for you. After selling out on Feb 10th 2005 and 12th May with excellent feedback, we have received funding to repeat the following workshop at a heavily subsidised price:

Innovation in your Creative Business

Thursday 27th October 2005
9.30 am - 5pm
CENTRIM, University of Brighton, Brighton

This challenging and creative one day workshop will help your business to begin to take the next step of innovation. It might be innovation of your product, innovation of your service or innovation of your business processes. It’s an opportunity to take a step-back from the day-to-day running of your company, get some creative challenge from other business leaders, a chance to get a “helicopter view”.

Overview

Combining the hands-on research expertise of CENTRIM (The Centre for Research in Innovation Management) with the innovative, challenging and practical approach of CATS3000, Paul Levy will help you identify where you need to improve and enhance products and services, and where a radical rethink might be needed.

Often in the creative industries, the creativity and flair inherent in our own products and services are not always applied to our own business processes and practices. We need to combine the very best of our artistry AND the need for professional and competent business processes and system.

• What do we need to challenge in the way we do things in order to innovate them and enhance them?
• What do we need to let go of that served as well in the early days but are now longer appropriate?
• What needs to be incrementally or radically new in our products, services and business processes?

Workshop Approach

The sessions will be highly interactive, hands-on and business focused, as well as making use of some of leading edge approaches to managing development of small and medium sized firms. By the end of the sessions, you will leave with a practical and proactive agenda for innovation.
Be prepared for a challenging, sometimes uncomfortable but always practical look at how your business operates and where it is going.

What makes this approach different?

The programme draws uniquely on a combination of state of the art innovation and creativity training with excellent arts-based learning methods. CATS3000’s learning approach has been applied all over the world and focuses specifically on uncovering the unspoken “taboos” that lead businesses to decline by not facing up to the uncomfortable issues at the heart of their development. This is done in a sensitive yet challenging way. Also there is a focus on building upon excellent practice inherent in the success of the start-up phase. It is based on work with businesses all over the world, in a range of different industries, delivered by an organisation that has been researching and supporting organisations who want to become more effective and innovative.

The Workshop style

• Challenging and genuinely creative
• Sensitive to competitive positions, without losing open dialogue
• Confidentiality-aware
• Positive and constructive
• Interactive
• Multi-perspective drawing on state of the art research, facilitation and “artful” innovation
• Informal and hands-on

Cost: only £20+VAT

More information: www.cats3000.net/innovation

Places strictly limited. Apply a.s.a.p by email to lorraine.cooper@sussexenterprise.co.uk