newton bsbinn801 lead innovative thinking and practice theories and thinking about innovation

Question:
Assessment Task 1
Provide answers to all of the questions below:
Compare and contrast at least one current and one past theories and thinking about innovation
Explain the practical application of theories and thinking on innovation and creativity to the workplace, giving examples to illustrate your answer.
Discuss how leadership styles can impact on innovation in organisations. Include at least three examples of leadership styles and their impact on innovation.
Discuss how the organisational structure may impact innovation at work.
Discuss how the industry context within which a company operates may impact innovation at work.
Analyse and discuss three internal conditions or factors that can impact on organisational innovation.
Analyse and discuss three external conditions or factors that can impact on organisational innovation.
Explain two strategies that can be used to identify, assess and manage risks associated with innovation.
Outline three examples of innovation drivers in an organisation.
Outline three examples of innovation enablers in an organisation.
Describe three mechanisms that can support innovative practices. The mechanisms you described can be relevant to the organisation as a whole or relevant to specific procedures.
Discuss three typical challenges and barriers to innovation within an organisation and ways of overcoming these challenges and barriers.
Assessment Task 2: Innovation promotion project
Task summary
You are required to write an innovation review for a case study organisation. You will also be required to make changes to one of their policy and procedures and suggest some innovative products and services that the case study organisation could adopt. You will then conduct a brainstorming session with colleagues to establish innovative approaches to improve the case study organisations staffs work/life balance.
This assessment is to be completed in the simulated work environment in the RTO.
Required
Access to textbooks and other learning materials
Computer with Microsoft Office and internet access
Whiteboard
Meeting Policy and Procedures
Business Plan
Innovation Review Template
Innovation Leadership Report Template
King Edward VII College has been operating since 2010. The College is based in Melbourne CBD and has an additional campus in Sydney. The College offers a range of courses in management, marketing, human resources and international business. It currently has 195 students enrolled across all of its courses and both campuses. Courses are offered at all levels, from Certificate II to Graduate Diploma.
King Edward VII College is very popular due to its competitive pricing structure, innovative teaching methods and state of the art facilities.
The College currently employs 24 staff members that include the CEO, a Sales and Marketing Manager and Sales and Marketing Assistant, Promotions Officer, Human Resources Manager, Operations Manager, Administration Manager, Office Assistant, Receptionist, Academic Manager, Student Services Officer and approximately 14 trainers and assessors.
You are the Operations Manager at the College and, following a recent short course on workplace innovation, you spoke to the Management Team about encouraging innovation in the College. They have given their full support to your efforts.
The CEO has asked you to write a review of innovation that can be used to enhance the Colleges and its students performance. Despite the Colleges healthy enrolment levels, management is aware that they must be prepared to adapt to new trends and ideas. Supporting and encouraging innovation is accepted as being integral to this.
Assessment Task 3: Physical environment project
Task summary
You are required to participate in a meeting with their colleagues that will explore and then decide on changes to the Colleges physical environment that will support innovation. You will then carry out the changes and then evaluate their effectiveness.
This assessment is to be completed in the simulated work environment in the College.
Required
Access to textbooks and other learning materials
Computer with Microsoft Office and internet access
Material as required
Workplace Innovation Report Template
Workplace Innovation Evaluation Report Template
Complete the following activities:
Prepare for a meeting with your colleagues.
In the next activity, you will meet with your colleagues, looking at ways that you can alter the learning environment in your RTO to better support innovation.
Prepare for this by taking a good look at your learning environment. Think about the aspects of the RTO that encourage innovation and those that dont.
The meeting will be held in an innovative style: there will be no chairperson, and no-one will lead the meeting. All decisions will be reached by consensus decision-making, not a yes or no vote. Do some research on consensus decision-making so you can participate fully in the meeting.
Your Assessor will observe all participants during the meeting.
Conduct a brainstorming and idea evaluation session. The meeting will last for a maximum of 30 minutes.
There will be no chairperson for this meeting Your group of students is required to meet and reach the meetings objectives together without any one person leading the meeting.
It is very important that each member of your group is given the chance to give their input on every idea that is proposed at the meeting, and that each idea or suggestion is acknowledged by all students.
There are two main objectives for the meeting. The first part of the meeting involves generating innovative ideas for changes to your RTOs physical environment to better support innovation In a second step, the ideas will be evaluated among the group, and the most effective idea(s) will be selected and carried out. Each member of the group should be allocated at least one activity to carry out.
Begin by letting each person give their evaluation of the impact of the RTOs current physical environment in relation to innovation. Then, as a group, discuss the aspects of the present RTO environment that encourage innovation and those that dont.
The next part of the meeting requires your group to conduct a brainstorm to generate ideas that would encourage creative mindsets, collaborative working and the development of positive workplace relationships.
These may involve your working station, the rooms of your RTO, or the ways that you work together with your colleagues.
Use the whiteboard to record all the ideas that are generated during the brainstorming session.
After 10 minutes of brainstorming, stop the process and look at all of the suggestions that have been generated.
Write a Workplace Innovation Report.
In this report you will evaluate the changes that you and your colleagues intend to make to the RTO environment.
Your report will need to:
Describe and evaluate your RTOs facilities and how their appearance and function encourage or restrict individual and collective innovative thinking and creativity.
Describe the actions that were decided on to promote innovation to students and staff at your RTO
Identify and assess the resources that will be needed for the innovation actions to occur. These should be readily available in the RTO.
Analyse potential barriers and risks to the innovation actions and devise strategies to respond to these.
Determine the most appropriate means to promote the transfer of knowledge about innovation to students and staff at your RTO.
Include an action plan that will document the actions to be carried out
Apply strategies to encourage innovation in the workplace.
Make the changes to your workspace that were decided on at the meeting you conducted in the previous activity.
Write an innovation evaluation report.
In this report you will evaluate the changes that you and your colleagues have made to the environment.
Your report should:
Describe the feedback that you have received about the actions and your opinion of them.
Suggest how the actions could be improved on in the future.
Reflect on your own performance during this assessment task and suggest at least two ways that it could be improved
Use the Workplace Innovation Evaluation Report Template to guide your work.

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