This seminar discusses practical techniques that any organisation can use to improve innovation and growth. Innovation transforms mediocre companies into world leaders and ordinary organisations into stimulating environments for employees. Innovation is the process of making changes to something established by introducing something new. Changes can be either radical or incremental. All organisations need to innovate ? profit and non-profit. Innovation is as relevant to services in a public hospital as it is for products and processes in a manufacturing company. Applied innovation is a symbiosis of applied management techniques that include innovation management, strategic planning, performance measurement, creativity, project portfolio management, performance appraisal, and knowledge management. Seminar notes can be downloaded from www.owl.ie.