This is the missing cross-discipline course for "broadened awareness" - the key today to capitalize on AI, and applicable to every career path.
This course will enable rapid and powerful creativity growth, providing insights, stories, references and mind challenges not covered within university curricula.
Those with broad awareness expand innovation capabilities and probabilities, driving differentiation for success.Note: 85% of CEOs place innovation as a top three priority...and AI will increasingly separate who gets to play what role in innovation leadership. So, while schools provide courses on "design thinking", innovation processes, and "maker spaces" and "Innovation Hubs", it is important to understand these are just tools within innovation.
The key, and increasingly important as AI steps in, is YOU — the mix and depth of your personality, your talent, your unique path, your knowledge, insights and breadth of awareness, your connections. The key is you — not a process.
The point: Do a tough, deep study here as an individual. Expand your knowledge. Expand your understanding of perceptions and intuition, people, design, design tools, additive receptivity, "making", taking action and learn to read the barriers to action. Deepen insight into yourself and how best to expand and grow.
Establish a broader foundation and grow as a Creative — a Cross-Discipline CreativeYou'll then have expanded capabilities and vision — for any innovation process, for any opportunity!
Gain a competitive edge by gaining a broad cumulative perspective — whether you are an artist, engineer, designer, sociologist, or into computer science, IT, communications, government studies, health or business and management.
Russ Strong brings you insights from across both entrepreneurial and intra-preneurial (inside companies), including team dynamics and project politics. This is a candid view from experience across all levels, from laborer to executive — and from "right brain" and "left brain". Russ provides insights gained working across tech, arts, design and industry, taking actions, "making", management and interface with economic development leaders and academia. He also provides links to supporting articles and books to help you dig deeper.
This course equips you to better recognize opportunities, combine ideas, sustain actions and bring a broader perspective to leverage and refine ideas with AI — enabling you to excel!
Save 10-15 years of randomly accumulating these powerful insights.
"Jump Start" your career and creative future.
Week 1.1: Intro and Opportunity Visualization and Overview
Week 1.2: Learning Your Talents - Epiphany at Tau Beta Pi
Week 1.3: REVIEW – Intro to Opportunities & Assessing Talents
- Further Discussion and Recommended Reading
Week 2.1: Your Place Amidst CreativesWeek 2.2: Experience Base of Reference & Customer Empathy
Week 2.3: REVIEW – Place Amidst Creatives and Experience
- Further Discussion and Recommended Reading
Week 3.1: Direct Knowledge -Knowing What You Don’t Know - MentorsWeek 3.2: Turning Procrastination into a Professional Tool
Week 3.3: REVIEW – Knowledge Base - Pulling It Together - Mentors
- Further Discussion and Recommended Reading
Week 4.1: Making - CAD and Tools of Making, Each a ToolWeek 4.2: Materials and Processes in Making
Week 4.3: REVIEW – Making - CAD & Simulation - Ultimate Making
- Further Discussion and Recommended Reading
Week 5.1: Perception is Reality (a Russ Strong Mantra)Week 5.2: Customer Focus - Out Beyond Listening to Customer
Week 5.3: REVIEW – Perceptions - Customer & Beyond Customer
- Further Discussion and Recommended Reading
Week 6.1: Writing - Illustration - Communication - As Innovation ToolsWeek 6.2: Art in Design - "R&D Styling" and "Production Styling"
Week 6.3: REVIEW – Writing - Illustration - Styling in Design
- Further Discussion and Recommended Reading
Week 7.1: Getting Comfortable with Being UncomfortableWeek 7.2: Constructive Griping - Speaking Honestly
Week 7.3: REVIEW – Comfort with Discomfort - Constructive and Honest Critique
- Further Discussion and Recommended Reading
Week 8.1: Checking Reactions at the Door - Welcoming New IdeasWeek 8.2: Barriers to Action - Removing Barriers - Taking Actions
Week 8.3: REVIEW – Changing Reactions - Barriers and Removing Barriers
- Further Discussion and Recommended Reading
In the coming Course II "Growing the YOU and ORGANIZATION for Innovation Power", we will get into:
Week 1.1: Leveraging Expectations and Positive Stress - Not All Driven by CompetitionWeek 1.2: Manner of Programs in Product Development – an Overview
Week 1.3: REVIEW – Leveraging Expectations and Stress – Program Processes
Week 2.1: Ethics - NDAs - Patents and Your InterestsWeek 2.2: Testing - Liability - FMEA and Mitigating Risks
Week 2.3: REVIEW – Ethics - Patents - Your Interests - Risks
Week 3.1: Innovation Mining – As a Week SessionWeek 3.2: Innovation Mining – As a Day Session
Week 3.3: REVIEW - Innovation Mining
Week 4.1: Using the Support of an Innovation Miner - Welcoming the Unexpected
Week 4.2: Seeking, Anticipating & Creating Action – Project & Connection Mapping
Week 4.3: REVIEW – Use of Innovation Miner - Creating Action – Skunk Works
Week 5.1:. Power of You and You Plus Others
Week 5.2: Power of the OrganizationWeek 5.3: REVIEW - Power of You and Power of OrganizationsWeek 6.1: Advancing the Welcoming Portals of You and GroupWeek 6.2: Advancing the Welcoming Portals of OrganizationsWeek 6.3: REVIEW - Advancing Welcoming Portals for Expanded InnovationWeek 7.1: You and New Hybrid Business Model OpportunitiesWeek 7.2: Organizations and New Hybrid Business ModelsWeek 7.3: REVIEW - New Hybrid Business Models - Advancing Innovation and Speed
"I am happy to learn Russ Strong is making this course
available, as there is so much one can learn from his experiences." I
am proud to have been a part of Russ Strong's projects with New
Holland, Caterpillar and John Deere he brought to Crucam Inc and Roush
Manufacturing. In my active interface with Russ, I have always been
impressed with his forward thinking, ability to multitask, and advanced
knowledge of the necessary disciplines to build engineering masterpieces. Our
team of professionals and Russ worked extremely well together, and great
outcomes were repeatedly produced on short timelines. Russ has vision and
integrity, and I appreciate our remaining in touch over 20 years.”
- Robert E. Phelps, Purchasing Professional, Ministry Leader
“As I’ve read through the sections of your first weeks, the
content is fantastic, extremely interesting, great insights (I’ve actually
worked some of what I learned into a lesson plan for my middle school class…
you will have their admiration). You
write with the enthusiasm of one who is describing a trip we are all planning
to go on! I can’t wait to get further into this. Truly inspired!
- Christina Bruno - BA Anthropology Texas Tech
University, Welding & Metal Sculpture, Artist,
Teacher
“Russ is
an industry leader in the area of design and innovation. My experience with him
has been amazing. He has the ability to take a great idea and bring it to
reality with an eye to both perfectionism and rapid pace to results.
Projects I’ve worked with Russ have been among the most fun and productive of
my career. There is so much anybody can learn from his knowledge and experience.
He is sharing a road map to greater results while highlighting how to have fun
at the same time. I am so glad Russ has boiled this all down into a course so
others can benefit and work towards his level of expertise in a much shorter
time frame.”
- Dan Knight - Mechanical Engineer, Inventor and Entrepreneur
“I
truly appreciate the knowledge I gained taking this course, and through your
feedback. This is a remarkable course in the practical insights I am already
incorporating to take my creativity to the next level and be bolder.
-
Michelle Pastore – Professional photographer, artist and entrepreneur
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