In just four days, the Innovation Master Class will be holding its first Innovation Training Workshop session in Makati.

This Friday, June 23, MAZARS Asia Pacific's Innovation Evangelist Mr. David Nosibor will be at Tower Club Makati, and he will share to us how to challenge ourselves through Design Thinking, a mindset that has originated from Engineering and has spread to multiple industries.

What are the questions that are to be answered in this Master Class?

1. How should you prepare for the challenges arising from changing times?
2. What is Design Thinking and its effectiveness in business?
3. What are the challenges your business is facing?
4. From the challenges that has been set, what could be the ideas that can solve it?
5. What are the benefits of field interviews and consumer feedback in decision-making?
6. How does your business link the problem and solution together?
7. In which perspective your business as a whole will see these solutions?
8. Why prototyping is a must, and how the feedback from it can mold the solution better?
9. What will you do more, and what will you do less?

Imagine this: You want to learn a new language, whether it be French, Japanese or Korean. You want to communicate with others without barriers. You have the goal of connecting to people you haven't met. The question is this: Are you that willing to learn?

This is the same with Innovation: If your willingness to learn to innovate is not 100%, then you're not ready for it. Learning without the willingness to learn is impossible - it's not learning at all!

If you are faced with this situation, what will you do? What can you do? Take these pointer questions as you go through this:

1. What made you interested to learn this at first? Who/What has been your inspiration to learn from the start? 
2. To whom/what are you doing this for? Is it to impress at work? Is it to express your love to someone? Is it because you want to make great things for humanity?
3. Where do you want to be in the future? Of course you will not stay fixed in one place, you curious one - you are bound to be somewhere, and the question is, where do you want to be in the future.

It has been reported that the think-tank of Ayala Corporation, one of the biggest conglomerates in the country, helped the company's growth.

Its chairman and CEO Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala said in a speech that the said division, named Ayala Innovation, helped drive the conglomerate's growth. Recently, Ayala has invested in healthcare, education, e-commerce and financial technologies.

"Innovation and inclusiveness are not just within the purview of small companies. In fact, in light of today’s volatile times, I believe that conglomerates, given their sizable capabilities, can accelerate industry competitiveness and inclusive development through innovation," Zobel de Ayala told the participants of the Inclusive Innovation Conference just last week.

The following statements from Zobel de Ayala confirmed that they know very well what innovation is. "Innovation should serve a clear purpose. Innovation should address a problem or an unmet need—whether to improve business efficiency or to increase the affordability and accessibility of essential products and services to meet a broader segment of the population," he added.

This is a proof why your company should have its own think-tank - a group of innovators - to grow it. Innovate or perish - this is the new game for companies and organizations alike.

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If your business is struggling to have its own think-tank, it's time to see the Innovation Master Class this June 23, Friday. This one-day innovation training workshop led by Mazars Asia Pacific's Innovation Evangelist David Nosibor, helps you get on the right track. Seats are filling up, so hurry and call (+63 2) 633-0153, 643-3887 or 535-1150; SMS (+63) 920 924 2532 or (+63) 920 981 4376; email info@exlinkevents.com or message us on our Master Class Philippines Facebook page.

Footprint - noun, the impression left by a foot or shoe on the ground or a surface. Synonym: Impression.

Many people have left great impressions of themselves - some shared their ideas, some warned about the consequences of not taking action against something, and some build masterpieces. What's common among them all? They make sure that what they are doing stands out. How do they do that? They innovate.

When it was said that flying is impossible, the Wright brothers prove them wrong. When it was said that landing into the moon was impossible, astronauts proved them wrong. When it was said that we can't make smaller computers that we can bring anywhere, we are proven wrong.

Innovation is not just about building a product or a service and leaving it as it is - trends change, people's choices change, and in the blink of an eye, what seemed to be their greatest idea is not that great yet. "There has to be something better," says another.

This also applies to your business - there are great ideas out there, we just have not realized it yet. The better way to discover this is by pointing out a problem that your business can provide a solution for. That will be the framework for your business now and in the future. Don't let everyone tell you it's impossible until you try.

To sum it up, Innovators leave great footprints because they knew what's up, and they won't stop at nothing to prove everyone that they are wrong and it's possible.

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This Friday, June 23, join Mazars Asia Pacific's Innovation Evangelist David Nosibor as he comes to Manila for the Innovation Master Class at the Tower Club Makati. Seats are filling up, so don't wait and call Ex-Link Events at (+63 2) 633-0153 / 643-3887 / 535-1150, SMS (+63) 920-924-2532 / (+63) 920-981-4376, email info@exlinkevents.com, or message us on Facebook (@masterclassphilippines).