India's First Institute of Innovation, Elephantversity Institute of Innovation
Elephantversity Institute of Innovation equips professionals with Innovation process to generate ideas and transform them into new products, services, business models.


/Corporations News Articles/ - PUNE, INDIA, July 23, 2008 - Elephant Strategy + Design today announced the launch of India's first innovation institute - Elephantversity Institute of Innovation. The institute is offering a one year executive program in Innovation. The program has been created in response to increasing industry need for trained Innovation Leaders.

"Innovation is a very easy to learn process for smart individuals" said Sudhir Sharma.

Offered alternate week-ends over one year duration, it is intended for participants who want to continue their full-time careers during the course of study. Participants will emerge from the program with a toolkit of strategies for leading Innovation in their respective organizations. The program comprises of six modules viz. user research, analysis, ideation, co-creation, prototyping and Innovation & business.

The program is intended for mid-career professionals from any branch such as engineering, management, human resources, marketing, finance or any domain such as software, pharmaceuticals, engineering industry, electronics industry, etc. Eligibility includes an undergraduate degree and at least two years of high-level professional work experience.

The program is facilitated by international faculty with truly outstanding knowledge and experience. Our faculty is a combination of experts from industry and academia, faculty from various nationalities like Poland, Denmark, Germany, France, USA, Brazil, Korea. Faculty members from organizations like Oracle, McKinsey Consulting, Sapient Corporation, Continuum, SAP, INNOVATIKA, Novo Nordisk, institutions like INSEAD, Stanford D.School, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Aalborg University, British Columbia Institute of Technology, will be teaching at this program.

Says Ashwini Deshpande "At Elephant Design we have been inspiring organizations to innovate and transform using design process. Elephantversity is a medium of translating our experiences into structured program."

The institute has developed a result-oriented curriculum drawing from its own experiences and with the help of an international advisory board. Each member of the advisory board has been part of a global business success story.

The institute has two important associations viz. Industry Association with Confederation of Indian Industry - CII and Academic Association with International Design Business Management Program, Helsinki, Finland.

"Participants of this program will help organizations - improve product quality and differentiation, offer global-best products and services, improve business efficiencies, productivity and margins, increase revenues and achieve higher market share and accelerated growth" says Hrridaysh Deshpande.

Additional information about the program and applications can be found at www.elephantversity.com.

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Hrridaysh Deshpande
Director - Elephantversity
+91 9922402750
hrridaysh@elephantversity.com

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