CONGRATULATIONS TO INNOVATION 360 BLACK BELTS

Congratulations to the Humber Office of Research & Innovation (ORI) team members who received their Black Belt IMBB Innovation Management™ certification from Innovation 360 Group: Anju Kakkar, Managing Editor, Humber Press, and Research & Innovation Specialist, ORI; Barath Roy Michel, Senior Project Manager, ORI; Camila Perez Peña, Strategic Innovation Manager, ORI; and Raeshelle Morris-Griffith, Innovation Program Manager, ORI. Dr. Ginger Grant, Dean, Research & Innovation, is now joined by the recent IMBB™ Licensed Practitioners. Dr. Grant is an Innovation360 Black Belt 2nd Dan Master Trainer.

HUMBER COLLEGE IS THE ONLY designated Canadian education provider of Innovation360 Group, which helps organizations become innovation ready through a data-driven methodology and a suite of tools for innovation management. It is the world’s largest framework and tool suite for online analysis, design, implementation, and execution of innovation management in any organization.

Humber has a growing number of certified innovation Licensed Practitioners (LPs)— Innovation360 four-level accreditations: Basic, Yellow Belt, Green Belt and Black Belt–in numerous functional areas who can conduct innovation assessments and analyses. Accreditation provides the global community of Licensed Practitioners with the training, tools, templates and support they need to succeed as innovation management experts. Innovation LPs are currently working with organizations in several sectors, including fintech, real estate, brokerage, government, education, healthcare and financial services, to measure their baseline innovation capacity.

The Innovation360 framework develops data analytics, data storytelling skills, and 21stcentury employability skills, including critical thinking, collaboration, and communication, which work towards developing career-ready citizens. This emboldens Humber on its mission to lead, transform and differentiate by improving Humber’s internal capacity to innovate and build innovation capability with students and partners.

INNOVATION360 TOOLKIT

1. InnoSurvey®: The only tool that assesses the effectiveness of an organization’s innovation strategy.

2. Ideation360: An ideation software that allows organizations to collect, cluster and link ideas to strategic initiatives to help them solve any problem within six to ten weeks.

3. PESTLED360: A strategy tool which helps organizations understand their external context and the global key drivers impacting their organization.

4. Scenario360: A strategy tool that collects the input from PESTLED360 to help identify a specific set of uncertainties and different “realities” of what might happen in an organization’s future.

ABOUT INNOVATION 360 GROUP®

Innovation 360 Group's mission is to help organizations all over the world to assess and strengthen their innovation capabilities for sustainable growth and profits. Innovation 360 Group helps organizations sharpen their innovation capabilities, generate and re-innovate their value propositions as well as speed up their global go-to-market projects through innovative strategy, business and organizational development. This is done by means of research-based innovation assessments and interactive online tools, based on Innovation 360's global innovation database and research in the innovation arena. Innovation 360 has sites in Stockholm, New York, Toronto and Sydney. Find out more about Innovation 360.