1. IAOIP Foundation Level
Certification
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Andrew.maxwell@lassonde.yorku.ca
IAOIP
Certified Professional Innovator
(CPI)
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2. IAOIP’s
Professional Innovator
Certification Process
“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or
reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly
want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
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3. Who Created the Certification?
Reputable, Recognized, and Creditable
• Certification created by the non-profit International
Association of Innovation Professionals (IAOIP) .
• Developed by over 200 leading innovation experts from around
the world.
• Questions compiled from The Global Innovation Science
Handbook (1st Ed) (referred to as the GISH from here on) and
thousand of pages of peer reviewed publications on innovation
including the International Journal of Innovation Science
publishing quarterly since 2009.
• Created with the most current knowledge on innovation science
and continuously updated.
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4. Who is the CPI credential for?
Working Professionals in roles requiring innovation knowledge & skills
• Executive Innovation managers, directors, VP and C-level.
• Those tasked with creating innovations, or those working on innovation
teams.
Career Minded Individuals seeking careers creating innovation
Senior Executives seeking to transform their organization to create a culture that
supports a process of innovation..
Business owners seeking to create new innovations in products, services,
processes, organization, value capture, …
Students & Veterans interested in pursuing a career in innovation, adding a
credential to the resume to break into positions and learn a valuable skill area
differentiating themselves from the bulk of the workforce.
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5. Benefits of an Innovation Certification
for an Individual
Builds knowledge and skills in applying innovation
• Certified members will have base knowledge of a wide range of innovation science
• Studying for a certification exam motivate individuals to learn more innovation
science tools and methods that benefit their business.
Publicly and visible endorsement of your skills
• Authenticates your knowledge in facilitating and implementing innovation
• Certified members listed on IAOIP website for reference checks
• Certified members gain title “IAOIP Innovation Professional™”
• Internationally recognized and creditable organization
Entry into practicing innovation
• The first certification exam is an entry-level certification for people interested in
innovation
• Is a first step toward becoming a proven leader in the industry, and is a career
pathway to advanced certifications in practical areas in innovation science.
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6. Benefits of an Innovation Certification
for an Individual
Access to the IAOIP’s Member Base
• Member range from innovation knowledge leaders, working professionals,
to beginner
• Network with members attend annual innovation conferences
• Join forces with other members to set best practices
On going education and networking
• The first exam is a “Foundation Level” and designed to lead into higher
level certifications.
• Additional certifications will be available for specific industries or
disciplines such as sustainability, healthcare, etc.
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7. What is innovation?
Innovation is “creating new value” in the opinion of many authors. That’s a
broad definition, which can be viewed on a continuum from optimizing the
existing business, to developing new products and services for known needs, to
the discovery and formulation of entirely new models to serve currently
unknown customer and user needs.
There is a need to clearly distinguish between:
• the optimization team whose focus is to optimize core capabilities to out-
execute the competition
• the product development team that develops new products and services for
known consumer needs
• the discovery and formulation team that seeks entirely new needs and
related business models
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8. The Certification Framework
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9. Foundation Level Requirements
Knowledge(Remembering): Exhibit memory of learned
materials by recalling facts, terms, basic concepts and
answers.
Comprehension(Understanding): Demonstrate
understanding of facts and ideas by organizing, comparing,
translating, interpreting, giving descriptions, and stating the
main ideas.
* Based on Bloom's Taxonomy
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10. The IAOIP Body of
Knowledge……
• All certifications are based on the
body of knowledge contained in
the award winning book Global
Innovation Science Handbook, 1st
Ed.
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11. Current Body of
Knowledge
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12. Body of Knowledge (by Working Group) Working Group (WG) or
Cooperative Certification (CC)
Design Thinking (Available) WG
Deployment WG
Development WG
Idea Generation WG
Innovation Architecture WG
Innovation Concepts WG
Management CC
Measurement WG
Methodologies and Tools (3 CPIs planned) WG
Opportunity Identification WG
Value Creation WG
TRIZ/ARIZ (Available) CC (with the Atshuller Institute)
The Practitioner Level Certification Opportunities
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13. Certifications Available or In-
Process
• Certified Professional Innovator-Foundation Level
• Certified Professional Innovator-Practitioner-Design Thinking
• Certified Professional Innovator-Practitioner Level-TRIZ Associate*
• *in association with the Atshuller Institute
In process for 2015
• Certified Professional Innovator-Practitioner-Methods and Tools
• Certified Professional Innovator-Practitioner-Measurement and Metrics
• Certified Professional Innovator-Practitioner-Innovation Management
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14. Overview of the IAOIP
Certification Exam
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15. Foundation Level Exam
The Foundation Level Exam will test your ability to know and
comprehend basic GISH* innovation concepts and terms.
Therefore this first exam will test for the knowledge and
comprehension of a broad range of innovation science subjects.
This exam is designed to test your knowledge about the science of
innovation and is not intended to test your ability to actually be
innovative. Practitioner Level exams will be more focused testing
specific knowledge in-depth with additional testing for ability as
appropriate.
Life favors the prepared!
* The student should use both the GISH along with the IAOIP Certification Study Guide and Glossary
to prepare for the Foundation Level Certification Examination
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16. Certification Process Areas - Level I
This slide deck (as is the Study Guide) is based
on the IAOIP Foundation Level construct and
is broken down into six areas:
I. Terms and Definitions
II. Culture of Innovation
III. Types of Innovation
IV. Methods and Tools
V. Process of Innovation
VI. Creativity, Ideas, Ideation
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17. GISH Mapping
I. Terms and Definitions Separate Glossary
II. Culture of Innovation Ch. 3, 4, 42
III. Types of Innovation Ch. 23, 25, 26, 27,
28, 31, 32, 33, 34
IV. Methods and Tools Ch. 10, 11, 20, 24,
37
V. Process of Innovation Ch. 16, 17, 18, 19,
30, 35, 36, 41, 44
VI. Creativity, Ideas, Ideation Ch. 5, 6, 13, 15, 21,
22, 29, 38
Exam Sections GISH Sections
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