Assessment Task 2

1. Innovation review

Workplace conditions encouraging innovation

 Encouraging entrepreneurship: When innovation speeds up and global competition

intensifies, universities adopt entrepreneurship as an integral part of academic

experience, developing environments that encourage and foster innovative thinking. It

looks as though students come to university, whichever area they study, to make a

difference in society through inventions, social entrepreneurship and other initiatives

of their own making. Among young faculty, too, who now expect the new technology

to emerge or innovations as part of their academic careers, the same kind of energy

and enthusiasm may be seen.

 Encouragement of collaboration with private sector: The colleges prioritize the

development of new collaborations with leading companies, foundations, and other

research-intensive institutions in today's challenging environment. Such

collaborations do not simply involve moving expertise from laboratory to training.

The funds are crucial for innovative faculty and students to conduct fundamental

research, to make it possible for students and faculty to discuss ideas with the best of

minds within and outside the university and, maybe most critically, to prepare

students to be the residents of a fast-changing world.

 Promotion of Diversity and inclusion: It is critical to continue to focus on

integrating diverse perspectives into work at universities.

Three strategies

Business strategies must be reframed: In this modern world of technology-led

transformation, industry revolution, globalization and rapidly shifting people's needs,

traditional solutions to implementation of corporate business strategies are being challenged.

Protection and recognition of intrapreneurs: An intrapreneur is a consultant who operates

in a major company to foster interest of internal creativity. Innovation should be an inherent

operational skill, rather than dependent on the research or title role.

An innovative culture must be built: Architecture and implementation of an integrated

corporate strategy that integrates agility. If the company is resistant to change, creativity does

not succeed. Developing open, equitable and stable innovation processes would be useful.

Individual creativity can be spontaneous, but collaborative innovation requires a mechanism.

Risk identification and management

Risk associated with the introduction of an innovative practice could be identified by the

following techniques:

Relative advantage: The greater the relative profit, the quicker the offer is taken. In order to

achieve a relative profit for your company, primary and secondary attributes which lead to

diffusion of your invention must be taken into consideration.

Triability: an innovation for which experimentation can be carried out is known as triability

Observability: The outcome of an innovation is calculated by this technique. The more

apparent the result of an idea, the simpler the innovation would be to implement.

Management of innovation risks could be achieved with the utilization of following

techniques:

Professional advice: Consultants, experts in the field or business network associates may

offer valuable insights into the relevant sectors.

workers or networking with other companies will lead to new insights on low-cost

opportunities.

Ongoing research: Stay aware of market research and technological advancements which

may affect the business.

Techniques and tools used for idea generation and thinking practices:

Idea challenge: Idea challenge is a concentrated creativity process in which you pose a

problem or a chance with the goal of finding creative solutions.

SCAMPER technique: Bob Eberle invented the SCAMPER system which is used for the

management of challenges and creative thinking. SCAMPER stands for substitute, combine,

adapt, modify, put to other use, eliminate and reverse. This is a systematic approach to use

critical thinking to change existing ideas, principles or methods.

Brainstorm cards: Brainstorm Cards are a useful tool created by the Innovation Board to

come up with several hundred suggestions about any challenge or problem.

Opposite thinking: it is a strategy that can make an individual challenge their long-standing

market beliefs.

Among the above mentioned techniques of innovative idea generation two of them serve as

fostering both the personal as well as team innovation includes the Idea challenge and the

SCAMPER technique.

Current trends at King Edward VII College

The King Edward VII College currently exercises various innovative techniques such as

competitive pricing structure, innovative teaching methods and state of the art facilities. The

current staff strength of 24 members along with 14 trainers and assessors ensure that these

practices are taken into account to develop an innovative environment within the college.

Among these Innovative Teaching Methods could be utilized for framing the organisation’s
future practice. Innovative courses with origins in STEM, STEAM, creating and

constructivism are popular and effective to keep students involved. Interactive learning offers

a glimpse of insight on how graduates should incorporate hands-on skills before entering the

real world workforce, a far more professional and innovative workplace. Moreover, within

this technique the use of smart boards is promoted which serves as an important way to bring

the classroom to life while helping students to get to know each other more thoroughly. This

method is statistically more crucial as it offers a collaborative and interactive learning

experience for the students as well as for the teachers to assess each student in a more

effective way.

Processes to be adopted by the college for ensuring innovation awareness

 Encouraging Interdepartmental interaction within the organisation environment

 Alternatives must be constantly searched for and the team must be encouraged for the

same

 Different perspectives must be gained by adopting reverse mentoring.

 Regularly occurring brainstorming sessions must be conducted.

2. Email with attached innovation review document

Formal Email:

Dear Chief Executive Officer,

Re: Innovation review

It is to be advised that the management department of the King Edward VII College is entitled

to introduce innovative environment at the workplace by presenting the innovation review

document. Innovation at the workplace is a culture in which employees collaborate with a host

company to address established problems. In its application, students will be allocated a

suitable team based on their interests and skills.

The document would carry out a discussion which is based on specific topics of concern which
 are listed as below:

 Specific workplace conditions in places such as The King Edward VII College, for

encouraging innovation.

 Three innovation drivers and enablers of innovation

 Three strategies for contributing to develop an innovation as an integrated part of the

college’s activities

 Risk identification and management for introducing innovation

 Four techniques and tools for generation of new ideas and thinking

 Current trends at the King Edward VII College and statistical recommendation for

future practices

 Processes to ensure awareness of innovative thinking and practices.

Please provide us with your valuable feedback and approval on the same, so that I can further

share it with other staff members and the trainers & assessors.

HR manager,

King Edward VII College

3. Revised meeting policies and procedure

Policy statement: The President shall preside over any meetings of the officials and

employees of the University, or, in the absence of that Chair, the Vice Chair. The Chairman

may nominate or designate a member of the college authority to be the president in the

absence of the Vice-Chair or, for other cause. In the absence of the Chair, the Chair or the

President shall conduct all activities according to the rules of discipline.

Policy and procedures

 Those people attending the college meetings may be asked to identify with the college

official or a representative at the time of joining the meeting.

members and the press representatives will have preference over those with business

in front of the guests.

 No person shall inflict, in any meeting of the college, any disruption, interruption or

intrusion, or threaten any member of the meeting.

 Therefore, by coercion, force or violence no entity shall deliberately or

unintentionally deprive or intervene in the freedom of another person from any

meeting of free access or absence.

 The Chair shall take account of the reasonable demands of all people attending the

district council meetings.

4. Current trends in the innovative learning and training practices

Flip methodology or classroom

Simply stated, this approach is to take responsibility for student learning and to make student

learners involved in the learning process. In this sense, teachers relegate themselves via e-

mail or intranet to the position of resource or resources suppliers, while students take

precedence in idea selection, information building and drawing inferences.

Peer teaching

The technique of even up the learning process in a class is among the most successful.

Typically, teachers combine high performance students with students who may fail in a

subject. Students are also invited to volunteer or are randomly selected as a tutor.

Leaving the classrooms

Learning could make students mindful of the world and themselves, broaden their

understanding and carry the reality to them. Colleges take students outside of the classroom.

Regardless of whether they are on the nature trail, or visited the cottage industry, students can

achieve direct communication about the theoretical studies through this technique

Formal Email:

Dear Chief Executive Officer,

Re: Innovation review

It is to be advised that the management department of the King Edward VII College is entitled

to introduce changes to the company’s policies and procedures which are implemented at the

workplace by presenting the Revised document of Meeting Policy and Procedures. The

changes made to the policies and procedures encourage an innovative working environment at

the King Edward VII college. It accurately ensures that each individual at the organisation is

entitled to participate in the meetings and present his/her opinion for the betterment of the

processes. Moreover, no individual could be forced or inflicted to divert form his/her own

thought process.

The document clearly outlines the major policies and procedures that must be implemented at

the King Edward VII college.

Please provide us with your valuable feedback and approval on the same, so that I can further

share it with other staff members and the trainers & assessors.

HR manager,

King Edward VII College

6. Meeting preparation

An annual outing for the organisation such as King Edward college VII is one of the easiest

ways of improving employee morale and allow staff to see each other in a no stressful

manner. Based on your corporate culture and budget, this style of outing can be as low-key or

so lavish as one would like. Who would rather advise than the staff themselves on what the
organisation such as The King Edward College VII, actually wants. When a firm finds that its

workers struggle to manage work-life, asking them what changes around the office can

improve the working conditions. One may be surprised to hear and cooperate on certain

mutually beneficial approaches. To encourage these often challenging conversations, arrange

regular meetings as a group or as one-on-one sessions in order to discuss coordination

matters. Know how you communicate with your employees. Team and senior management

should concentrate on their methods of communication and their effects on the business

world. When the team is there, it is appropriate to include the employees and help them

interact with the events both inside and outside the workplace.

Moreover, companies must strive to engage its employees in interactive sessions such as

brainstorming which is a creative process for underlining a fundamental process of

contradictory view and opinions. Brainstorming, however, is usually carried out in order to

achieve a goal, such as developing ideas for a future project. To create a fruitful

brainstorming session, members must balance the free collaboration with focused

concentration. In this way, successful brainstorming is analogous to many other creative

processes, which involve a good balance between creativity and art.

During a brainstorming session, once people know and trust each other, they will feel less

discouraged and may develop more innovative ideas. Selection of participants with

productive working relationships, encouraging them to unwind and take advantage of the

process is an essential step. This policy would encourage free flow of information and

prevent monopolizing the debate by any single person. Moreover, a moderator plays a role of

recording ideas, to encourage contribution, to deter negative feedback and to keep any

participant from monopolizing the debate and upholding basic rules. Implement the ideas

from your brainstorming session.

Operations manager: Hello all, today we have gathered to facilitate an effective

brainstorming session on innovation practices at King Edward VII College. Being the

operational manager I request you all to actively participate in the session to make it more

efficient thus promoting and reinforcing the values of innovation at the college workplace.

The primary objective of this brainstorming session is to gather a number of ideas thus

reflecting and encouraging innovative practice and proposing ways of improving staff

work/life balance.

CEO: I would like to welcome you all to the innovative brainstorming session. I will be

initiating this brainstorming session by carrying out a discussion upon the innovative

practices that must be taken into account. We as an organisation are committed to delivering

the working environment of continuous and strive to encourage employees to advance

towards their own credibility within the organisation.

Staff1: I suggest we must create something which is long lasting, as it would facilitate our

employees for being a part of something which is bigger than themselves.

Staff2: We must also, celebrate our success across the company in all its forms. This would

enable one another to obtain the knowledge of people from all across. It is an innovative way

of recognizing people from the different functions across the company.

Staff3: In my opinion the employees must be provided time for devising new and innovative

solution as in google, which allocates a total of 20% of its time for the employees to present

develop fresh ideas for the company and encourage an entrepreneurial environment.

Staff4: the college must also release a sufficient amount of funds for the successful

implementation of such ideas which can actually bring a large organisational transformation.
Staff5: the employees must be motivated to participate in employment opportunities such as

career fairs, co-operative education and work study. Apart from that online career services

such as careerConnect must be established.

CEO: I have clearly understood each and every point raised by each one of you, and I hereby

would like to bring this session to an end by concluding that I have decided to adopt all the

suggestions laid down. I would be facilitating the adoption to all of you by developing an

appropriate action plan that would be made available by the operation manager.

Operations manager: Thank you all actively participating and pitching in your ideas during

the brainstorming session.

8. Innovation leadership report

Summary of the meeting

The meeting with the staff of King Edward VII college was carried out post the meeting

policies and procedures review.

I believe that the participants actively took part in the meeting and proposed their innovative

ideas for the development of an innovative workplace and encouraging an improved work life

balance. The objectives were accurately met and the session was concluded with the proposal

to develop an effective action plan.

The suggestions laid down by the participants included:

 Creation of a participatory platform for everyone

 Celebration of success as a way of indulging

 Appropriate time allocation for idea generation

 Availability of sufficient funds

 Introduction of employment opportunities

Summary of risks involved

Risks involved Mitigation of risks

strategies such as incentive programs for

innovators, contests and awards.

Lack of collaboration Innovation must be encouraged through

collaborative practices which involves the

participation of industry partners and the

competitors to drive the companies’

innovative framework.

Evaluation of the leadership style

The leadership that I have employed during the staff meeting was the democratic style of

leadership. It is one of the most efficient forms of leadership since it encourages low-level

staff to retain skills they will need to take advantage of carefully in future positions. It also

seems like decision-making in meetings of the company board. I have provided the team with

various decision-making options with this style. Then a conversation was opened on each

alternative. Following the discussion, I considered the Board's views and suggestions.

9. Email with attached leadership report

Formal Email:

Dear Chief Executive Officer,

Re: Innovation review

It is to be advised that the management department of the King Edward VII College is entitled

to introduce innovative environment at the workplace by presenting the Innovation Leadership

Report document. The document outlined the following key points:

 Meeting summary
  Innovative suggestions received from the meeting.

 Summary of risks involved

 Short evaluation of the leadership style and practice adopted at the meeting.

Please provide us with your valuable feedback and approval on the same, so that I can further

share it with other staff members and the trainers & assessors.

HR manager,

King Edward VII College