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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify opportunities to stimulate innovative thinking and creativity
   • Integrate and apply current innovative practice and organisational trends to the development of experiences for innovative thinking and creativity in an organisation.
   • Analyse operational issues and conditions as a stimulus for innovative thinking and creativity.
   • Identify opportunities to initiate and manage individual and collective innovative thinking and creativity activities based on operational analysis.
   • Apply workplace methods and tools for generating new ideas and innovative thinking.
2. Manage innovative practices
   • Review, challenge and refine own management style and practice to model and support innovation.
   • Determine operational requirements needed to promote sustainable innovative practices.
   • Identify and allocate appropriate resources for implementing innovation.
   • Provide opportunities for innovative change and knowledge transfer.
   • Identify and address barriers to individual and collective innovative thinking and creativity.
   • Manage risks associated with encouraging innovative practice.
3. Develop and support a culture of innovation
   • Provide written and oral information about innovative practices, processes and products.
   • Provide opportunities to encourage creative thinking techniques that foster personal and team innovation.
   • Capture and share innovative ideas and practices.
   • Foster consultation, communication and team development approaches that support innovative thinking.
   • Implement management strategies that support a workplace culture of innovation.

Performance Evidence

A person demonstrating competency in this unit must satisfy all of the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, and must be able to provide evidence that they can:

For a given individual business area with a forestry industry organisation (within any sector), complete a research project to investigate:

key concepts and theories relating to business innovation and creativity

a range of workplace methods and tools for generating new ideas and innovative thinking

organisational trends shaping current and future approach to innovative practice

operational issues that impact on innovative practices

operational opportunities for individual and collective innovative thinking and creativity

a range of risks associated with encouraging operational personnel to participate in innovative practice

how the individual business area’s core business and size will impact on ability to use innovative practices

Based on research findings, develop and document development approaches and strategies, tailored to the individual business area, to implement innovative practices for the business unit.

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Knowledge Evidence

A person competent in this unit must be able to demonstrate knowledge of:

Objectives and key content of commonwealth, state or territory laws for copyright, trademarks and intellectual property.

Key concepts and theories relating to innovative thinking, practice and creativity.

Relationship between theory on innovation and creativity, and applied practice.

Theories, processes and practice of business unit transformation and change management.

Typical operational challenges and barriers to innovation within individual business areas and methods to overcome.

How the individual business area’s core business and size will impact on ability to use innovative practices.

Processes for promoting innovative thinking and practice within an individual business area.

Common risks associated with encouraging operational personnel to participate in innovative practice.

Technological developments affecting operational innovation.

The way that different management styles impact on innovation in organisations.

Specific management approaches that foster innovation.

Workplace methods and tools for generating new ideas and innovative thinking.

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