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ISO 56001 Lead Implementer

Develop and improve innovation management arrangements by working through innovation processes, opportunities and performance evaluation.

  • Practical, standards-based professional learning
  • Assessment and verifiable Cognicert certification
  • Flexible online, self-study and organisational delivery

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What you will work on

Assessment and award requirements
  • Upon successful completion of this programme, you will receive Cognicert Innovation Management Professional Certificate from Cognicert Limited UK.
 

Entry, exam and access at a glance

Prerequisites

Entry requirements depend on the course and level. Review the course-specific requirements and prior knowledge listed below.

Exam and resits

100 questions in one hour. Pass mark: 70%. Your payment includes two exam attempts. A third or later attempt costs £100 per resit.

Platform-wide pass rate: 87% across all examined trainees, based on Cognicert’s exam-platform results. This is not a course-specific pass rate or a guarantee of an individual result.

Self-study access

Lifetime access for the enrolled learner. Access is personal and cannot be shared.

Overview

Develop and improve innovation management arrangements by working through innovation processes, opportunities and performance evaluation.

Work through innovation processes, opportunities and performance evaluation and connect them to the responsibilities of your implementation role. The detailed programme explains the methods and activities covered.

Objectives
  • During this course, you will learn how to:
  • use the main innovation management terminology and concepts
  • explain the adoption life cycle and innovation adoption at the individual level
  • define creativity and explain how creativity can be stimulated
  • recognise and describe idea management systems
  • explain what an innovation strategy is and why it is important
  • describe what a Innovation portfolio is
  • explain how innovation projects should be selected and managed
  • explain the importance of teams, team structures and networks for innovation.
  • Plan Innovation strategies
  • Operate and manage innovation management
  • Evaluate Innovation performance
  • Improve innovation strategies.
Content
  • Meaning and importance  of Innovation
  • Principles of Innovation Management
  • Tools and Methods of Innovation: Back casting, ethnographic research, scenario planning, brainstorming, idea management, inclusive design, business model templates.
  • Ideas and Concepts, e.g. creativity and provocative techniques, critical thinking, discovery skills, technical know-how, market analysis, business case writing, and value realization modelling that includes generating user-value equations;
  • Innovation Management Planning
  • Context of Innovation Management
  • Establishing the innovation management system and Culture
  • Engage And Empower People, Team Facilitation, Involvement, Collaboration, Foster A Culture supporting innovation activities
  • Collaboration, Leadership and commitment
  • Focus on value realization
  • Innovation vision
  • Innovation strategy
  • Innovation Stakeholders requirement management
    • Legal requirements
    • Innovation Risks and Opportunity Management
    • Identify Insights And Opportunities: market and technology analysis, bottleneck and gap analysis, ethnography, data-driven experimentation and hypothesis testing, design thinking, scenario planning, analytics, and big data;
    • Innovation Management Plan
  • Innovation Operations Management
    • Innovation documents and record management
    • Innovation Human Resources Management
    • Organizational Needs Assessment, Impact and Training
    • Managing Organisational Knowledge
    • Operational considerations:  The Critical Process Issues.
    • Innovation Products and Services Design and Development
    • Innovation Verification and Validation Processes
    • Strategic intelligence management
    • Intellectual property management
    • Innovation  portfolio
    • Operational planning and control
    • Innovation initiatives
    • Innovation processes
    • Identify opportunities
    • Create concepts
    • Validate concepts: e.g. iterative learning techniques, design, testing and validation value realization planning, and project management;
    • Develop solutions
    • Deploy solutions
    • Innovation operational controls: processes and procedure development and improvement.
  • Innovation performance monitoring and Evaluation
    • Monitoring and evaluating Innovation Performance
    • Auditing Innovation Performance
    • Evaluating and Reviewing Innovation Activities
    • Management Review
  • Improving Innovation performance
    • Implementing Corrective actions
    • Implementing Corrective actions
  • Programme application

    • This course covers Innovation management in the context of ISO 56001 Innovation Management System. It also provides the opportunity to gain knowledge on the regulations and processes of Innovation management. Participants will also be introduced to the concept of Plan-Do- Check-Act in managing Innovation with policies, processes, procedures and controls.
    • Innovation-driven growth at the organizational level requires a multidisciplinary approach. To achieve that growth, leaders must adopt a strategy for fostering new thinking and, blueprint in hand, convey that strategy both laterally and vertically. It all comes down to the communication: disseminate knowledge and best practices, and work toward organization-wide acceptance, from planning to execution.
     For whom:
    • Compliance Manager, Innovation Supervisor, Innovation Manager
     
Delivery
  • Case Study
  • Individual Exercises
  • Role Play
  • Group Exercises
  • Group Presentation
  • Examination
  • Assessment and Qualification Learning is assessed through:
  • hours open examination. Passing the exams qualifies the candidate for Cognicert ISO 56001 Lead Implementer (CPD Certificate)
  • Practical experience of 25 days with activity log qualifies participants for our Cognicert ISO 56001 Lead Implementer (Implementer Category) I.D Card and Certificate
  • Practical experience of 50 days with activity log qualifies participants for our Cognicert ISO 56001 Lead Implementer (Lead Implementer Category) I.D Card and Certificate
Certificate
  • Upon successful completion of this programme, you will receive Cognicert Innovation Management Professional Certificate from Cognicert Limited UK.
 

ONE STANDARD · FIVE LEARNING LEVELS

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1 day

ISO 56001 Awareness

People who need an introduction to the standard and their role in supporting it.

Self-study: £75On demand · study at your own pace

Live online: £20030 November–4 December 2026

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2 days

ISO 56001 Foundation

People building a working understanding of the standard before taking on implementation or audit responsibilities.

Self-study: £150On demand · study at your own pace

Live online: £50030 November–4 December 2026

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3 days

ISO 56001 Internal Auditor

People preparing to plan and carry out internal audits within their organisation.

Self-study: £250On demand · study at your own pace

Live online: £75030 November–4 December 2026

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TRAINING DATESEXAMDEADLINE & STATUSLIVE ONLINESELF-STUDY
30 November–4 December 20264 December 2026Standard booking period
Standard deadline: 2 November 2026. No late fee yet.
Places are confirmed at booking, not guaranteed by this calendar.
£1,200
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