Innovation Programs

4 Unique Programs

Equip your team with the business capabillities of the changing world through programs that bring together ATÖLYE’s problem-solving approach and human-centered design, lean start-up, and agile methods.

How might we acquire the skills necessary to carry our organizations into the future?

We live in times when cultural and technological trends, needs of customers, and strategic priorities are rapidly changing and thus agility is becoming more important than ever. Through the Innovation Programs, ATÖLYE Academy guides organizations through rapid change to design the innovations that will carry their business into the future and turn these innovations into business outcomes.

The Innovation Programs will support your teams in realizing innovative products, services, and business models while equipping them with the business capabilities of our changing world.

This program mobilizes a creative network along with experts from ATÖLYE’s team and community to design the type of innovation that your organization needs together with various external stakeholders.

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Program Goals

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Popularize the issues that your organization needs to focus on and produce creative solutions by tapping into collective intelligence.

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Nourish the solutions to your problems by introducing new perspectives from various partners.

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Build towards radical collaborations and a new creative community that will be formed by people from within and outside of the organization.

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Develop collaborations with people, teams, or startups that have innovative ideas or aspires to develop ideas on issues your organization is focusing.

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Activate your employees and the ecosystem formed around your strategic challenges via seminars and coaching or mentorship meetings.

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Benefit from collective creativity, expand the impact area of your organization for new collaborations, and support its thought leadership role.

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Render your success visible by communicating internally and externally the new methods and innovations you experienced in your sector.

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Outcomes

Inclusive culture

You will create an environment where every voices is heard and all stakeholders have ownership.

Radical Collaboration

You will create a healthy and fertile team culture with people from different disciplines, departments, and expertise with different needs and priorities.

Experimentation mindset

You will become aware of your assumptions and see your “mistakes” as opportunities for learning and growing while you realize solutions with rapid prototyping skills.

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Program Cycle

Open Innovation is designed after elucidating the project’s goals, journey, role, and responsibilities together with your organization.

In the application process, we work with your teams and help select the best-fit participants. We conduct workshops, learning modules, coaching and mentorship seances, panel discussions, and jury evaluations through the program.

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Who Should Participate?

Individuals, teams, and, organizations who believe in the shared wisdom and creativity of communities and aim at making impact through radical collaborations.

This program guides a team of 6-8 from various departments in your organization to develop human-centered solutions to your problems in an agile, swift, and creative journey of 4-6 weeks.

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Program Goals

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Develop validated human-centered solutions for the customer experience problems that your organization faces.

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Build the systems necessary for bringing your products to your customer as quickly as possible and receiving feedback from them.

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Enable teams with differing priorities within your organization to engage in effective and agile collaborations around common goals.

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Facilitate the commitment of different units to the process through a common design and production approach and as well as facilitating the successful realization of solutions.

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Develop problem framing, creative thinking, rapid prototyping, and user testing capabilities within your teams to respond to customers’ demands with quick and innovative solutions.

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Experience lean innovation methods which you can iterate to enhance your services and reach maximum yield with minimal effort.

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Empower your organization’s creative potential and the participants’ creative confidence by forming unbiased and non-hierarchical spaces, which are necessary for exploring innovation in design processes.

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Outcomes

Human and experience centricity

You will start to consider your products and services as holistic experiences that you provide for your customers.

Solution-based approach

You will be optimistic while facing the problems around you and create opportunities to produce design-centered solutions.

Empathy

While solving problems, you will internalize the approaches that prioritize the needs of the humans at the center of the problems.

Radical collaboration

You will create a healthy and fertile team culture with people from different disciplines, departments, and expertise with different needs and priorities.

Agile approach

After learning about effective working, prioritizing, and decision-making tools, you will develop swift and comprehensive solutions.

Experimentation Mindset

You will become aware of your assumptions preventing you from taking action against challenges and see your “mistakes” as opportunities for learning and growing.

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Program Cycle

The Human-Centered Design Sprint was designed as an agile and creative journey in which a team of 6-8 people from different units focuses on the customer experience challenges prioritized by your organization.

In this 4-6 week journey, the participating team will develop solutions that are tested and verified with customers by working together with the ATÖLYE Academy team. Through simple research methods, we will discover insights and frameworks that will inspire creative ideas throughout the sprint. The team will attend various workshops and conduct various design-thinking exercises, such as: human-centered problem formulation, mapping experience journey, developing creative ideas, rapid prototyping, user tests, and iteration.

Towards the end of the program, participants will verify their solutions through two weeks of testing and iteration cycles. Also, they will receive a “Storytelling and Presentation Techniques” training, in which they will create convincing and galvanizing stories of their projects. At the end, they will tell these stories to their leads in the organization.

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Who Should Participate?

Committed employees and leads from units facing the customer experience-related issues that will be the focus of the program, who are excited about innovation and eager to take action.

In this 8-week-long program, we guide a team of 6-8 people from different departments to develop participatory and holistic approaches the uncertainties and challenges facing your organization.

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Program Goals

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Discover new approaches with the participants’ shared wisdon and will against complex problems in strategy, culture, and innovation.

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Enable internal and external stakeholders to come together around common purposes, principles, vision, and values and work together.

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Facilitate participatory and systemic processes that spread through your organization’s culture.

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Enable participants to produce high-quality and human-centered outputs by using lean start-up methods.

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Support the participants’ collaboration skills by enabling them to practice team rituals and agile working methods.

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Facilitate your exploration of working methods tailored for your organization and their execution.

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Outcomes

Inclusive Culture

You will create an environment where every voices is heard and all stakeholders have ownership.

New approaches to complexity

You will learn ways to develop holistic and systemic solutions to complex problems and to realize these solutions.

Radical collaboration

You will create a healthy and efficient team culture with people from different disciplines, units, expertise, and people who have different needs and priorities.

Experimentation Mindset

You will become aware of your assumptions preventing you from taking action against challenges and see your “mistakes” as opportunities for learning and growing.

Storytelling

You will grasp the significance of telling stories powerfully and be able to tell cogent and galvanizing stories to mobilize people.

Creative confidence

You will become aware of your traits that preclude your creative potential and learn to develop your creative muscles with new practices and habits.

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Program Cycle

This program was co-designed by ATÖLYE’s Academy and Ventures units with the “lean start-up” method as its fulcrum.

Throughout the program, a multidisciplinary team of 6 to 8 people from different units will focus on a problem that is important for your organization. Participants will go through the producing-measuring-learning cycles to create projects whose solution-market fit is resolved and develop the skills necessary for strategic innovation.

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Who Should Participate?

Managers who focus on the organization’s strategic issues, willing to explore innovation in a collaborative way, and eager to incorporate agile working practices as well as employees and teams with different experience levels.

We invite the entrepreneurial spirits in your organization to a 12- to 16-week intrapreneurship journey to create innovative business models, products, and services.

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Program Goals

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Realize the innovative business ideas that you need in your organization with your employees’ intrapreneurship.

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Support and empower aspiring intrapreneurs in your organization at every step, from the customer problem to value proposition, conceptualization, prototyping, business model design, Minimum Viable Product, and to product strategy.

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Expand the participants’ perspectives by inspiring them with business models and entrepreneurship and innovation trends from around the world.

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Present new opportunities to your employees, support innovative ideas, and build the foundation for an impact-oriented community in the organization.

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Strengthen your employees’ bonds with your organization by providing them new spaces, where they make a positive impact around them.

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Outcomes

Entrepreneurial spirit

While following the ideas you are passionate about, you will be able to mobilize the resources around you by associating others with your ideas.

Strategic entrepreneurship

You will learn to ground your ideas on a strong customer and competition strategy by applying different strategic innovation and product design methods.

Experimentation Mindset

You will become aware of your assumptions and see your “mistakes” as opportunities for learning and growing while you realize solutions with rapid prototyping skills.

Radical Collaboration

You will create a healthy and fertile team culture with people from different disciplines, departments, and expertise with different needs and priorities.

Storytelling

You will grasp the significance of telling stories powerfully and be able to tell cogent and galvanizing stories to mobilize people.

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Program Cycle

The 12- to 16-week Intrepreneurship Program created jointly by ATÖLYE’s Academy and Ventures teams, was designed to mobilize teams enthusiastic about and eager to entrepreneurship in organizations.

ATÖLYE Academy’s experienced coaches and facilitators will guide the selected entrepreneur teams as they rapidly validate business ideas and learn by experimenting. Participants will build the strategic foundations of their ideas and business models after a 5-day “”Minimum Viable product”” sprint, after which they will start the validation process with customers.

After the sprint, teams will work with coaches and mentors from Academy’s collaborator network on ideation and solution validation. They will form impressive stories with “”Storytelling and Effective Presentation Techniques”” exercises. At the end of the program, they will present their projects validated by user tests to leaders from the organization.

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Who Should Participate?

Employees and executives with entrepreneurial sprits who are enthusiastic about developing solutions that focus on your organization’s strategic issues.