IAOIP Certification

IAOIP Foundation Level Certification

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IAOIPCertified Professional Innovator

(CPI)

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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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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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Who is the CPI credential for?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.


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.


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.


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


The Certification Framework


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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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.

Current Body of Knowledge


Body of Knowledge (by Working Group) Working Group (WG) or Cooperative Certification (CC)

Design Thinking (Available) WGDeployment WGDevelopment WGIdea Generation WGInnovation Architecture WGInnovation Concepts WGManagement CCMeasurement WGMethodologies and Tools (3 CPIs planned) WGOpportunity Identification WG

Value Creation WGTRIZ/ARIZ (Available) CC (with the Atshuller Institute)

The Practitioner Level Certification Opportunities


http://iaoip.org/deployment-working-group/

http://iaoip.org/development-working-group/

http://iaoip.org/idea-generation-working-group/

http://iaoip.org/innovation-architecture/

http://iaoip.org/innovation-concepts-working-group/

http://iaoip.org/measurement-working-group/

http://iaoip.org/methodologies-and-tools-working-group/

http://iaoip.org/methodologies-and-tools-working-group/

http://iaoip.org/opportunity-identification-working-group/

http://iaoip.org/value-creation-working-group/

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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

Overview of the IAOIP Certification Exam


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


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 DefinitionsII. Culture of InnovationIII. Types of InnovationIV. Methods and ToolsV. Process of InnovationVI. Creativity, Ideas, Ideation


GISH Mapping

I. Terms and Definitions Separate GlossaryII. Culture of Innovation Ch. 3, 4, 42III. 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, 44VI. Creativity, Ideas, IdeationCh. 5, 6, 13, 15, 21,

22, 29, 38

Exam Sections GISH Sections
