Affirms an individual’s proficiency at key and foundational innovation methods and tools
CInP®
Certified Innovation Professional (CInP)® is GInI’s recognition of working professionals who have demonstrated an advanced understanding of key topics relating to business innovation and innovation management.
CInP certification affirms an individual’s proficiency at key and foundational innovation methods and tools. This includes: research and insights mining, brainstorming and the GInI Breakthrough Innovation Method, Design Thinking, innovation project structuring, the GInI Innovation Management System, the different roles of the Innovation Manager, leading and building innovation teams, engagement & intrapreneuring, open innovation, innovation storytelling, and idea selection.
Become an Innovative Thinker
You will come to understand what innovation is and the role it plays in driving business forward. You will learn how to think differently about the value and experiences your organization delivers to the markets. You will learn specific methods and techniques for pursuing innovation and ensuring innovation projects make it safely from concept to market.
Become the Driving Force for New Levels of Market Connection
By learning how to drive powerful and market-led solutions to emerging challenges, you will become recognized as a driving force for constantly reconnecting your business and its markets at increasingly higher levels. This willenable you to deliver meaningful impact to the business and transform it into a truly innovative organization.
Learn to See the World with New Eyes
You will come to understand how innovation requires stepping back and looking at challenges through a new set of lenses. You will learn how to decompose challenges into new hypotheses that can be tested and verified. You will also learn how to reexamine and challenge existing orthodoxies in the hunt for new and better ways to solve challenges.
Become a Catalyst for “What’s next“Connection
You will develop a deep appetite for finding new and better ways to deliver customer value and experiences. You will learn how to conceive market-winning next generation solutions and how to advocate for these within the organization. You will come to understand how to be deeply attuned to your markets and how to deliver new demand-creating value in those markets.
Target Audiences
Front-line working professionals and mid-level managers, including those with limited or no innovation experience and seeks to gain a better understanding of business innovation.
To maintain your CInP certification, you must earn 45 Innovation Development Units (IDUs) every three years or retake the CInP exam.
For more information read the CInP Guide Book