Innovation: Inspiration and training activities     For countries and regions as well as corporations around the world, innovation is becoming an essential tool for their renewal and improved performances. For government, innovation holds the key to developing more relevant services in support of citizens and companies, to distributing them more effectively and engaging users in their further upgrading and improvement. For companies, innovation is key to renewing their project portfolios, entering new markets, raising value-added, and so forth.   Despite its universal importance, there is no single formula for how to innovate. There are also many different kinds of innovation, including, for example, process versus non-technical, economic versus social, and incremental versus radical innovation.   In many cases, the introduction of new technologies makes it possible to produce more with less. Making a production process more efficient may mean reducing the number of workers and slimming the organisation. This is what happens to big companies around the world today. At the same time, with innovation opening up for new ways of doing things, and producing new goods and services, economic expansion becomes possible, as well as the establishment of new companies that can offer solutions that did not previously exist. For technology to result in such a broadening of our economic base, there is a need of innovation to evolve in tandem with entrepreneurship and the successful development of new enterprises.   Innovation cannot be ordered but training and build-up of skills are key to making innovation policy. There is a need of substantive skills in a range of disciplines, of experts and of collaboration between different experts. There is also, however, a need of upskilling for practioners, and of the ability to combine theoretical and practical skills. On top of that, there is a need of soft skills, to strengthen one's judgment when to believe in oneself, and when to listen to others; or being able to collaborate with others, including those that are different from yourself, but also when to hold out against others, including your peers.   Any organisation can benefit from developing strategies and taking measures in support of innovation. At the same time, involving innovation requires local knowledge. Against this backdrop, Qualies is preparing a collaborative program for working with private companies in Oman and the Middle East, including pioneering training and related activities in support of innovation. In this effort, Qualies is also collaborating closely with first-rate international partners on the offering of cutting-edge complementary services.                  Qualies © 2014 | info@qualies.com